Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.31
Liaison Amy McElhinney
Submission Date Sept. 29, 2017
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STARS v2.1

University of Mount Union
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.41 / 12.00 Jamie Greiner
Sustainability and Campus Outreach Manager
Nature Center
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
75

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
4

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
5.33

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
25

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
4

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
16

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:

Sustainability research at Mount Union:

Dr. Lori Kumler, Political Science and International Studies
Location, Location, Location? The geography of nature and green spaces in predominantly low income and minority neighborhoods of Alliance. Research relates to environmental justice.

Dr. Hans Tritico, Civil Engineering
Eastern Hellbender Conservation Research

Dr. Bob Ekey, Physics
Easter Hellbender Conservation Research

Dr. Theresa Davis, History
Historical Research into the Agricultural Economies of the Brumbaugh Nature Center's General Area


A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

Information from Brumbaugh Scholar Mentor Applications.


The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

75 - taken from previous report. Mount Union is primarily a teaching institution and research is not required for promotion and tenure, though it is highly regarded and is one of several possible forms of professional development that can be considered in personnel decisions.


75 - taken from previous report. Mount Union is primarily a teaching institution and research is not required for promotion and tenure, though it is highly regarded and is one of several possible forms of professional development that can be considered in personnel decisions.

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