Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 67.00
Liaison Cindy Shea
Submission Date Nov. 13, 2024

STARS v3.0

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AC-6: Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.81 / 10.00 Melanie Elliott
Sustainability Analyst
Sustainable Carolina
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6.1 Percentage of academic departments engaged in sustainability research

Total number of academic departments engaged in research:
66

Number of academic departments engaged in sustainability research:
58

Annotated list or inventory of the institution’s sustainability research by department:
Description of the process used to identify the institution’s sustainability research:

Projects were pulled from the online grant proposal database. Project titles were searched for sustainability keywords


The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following two figures:

Percentage of academic departments engaged in sustainability research:
87.88

Points earned for indicator AC 6.1:
7.81

6.2 Incentives for sustainability research

Does the institution provide incentives for academic staff to conduct sustainability research?:
Yes

Description of the sustainability research incentives for academic staff:
Does the institution provide incentives for students to conduct sustainability research?:
Yes

Description of the sustainability research incentives for students:

The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:

Points earned for indicator AC 6.2:
2

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