Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.78
Liaison Imad Alsyouf
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Sharjah
PA-4: Reporting Assurance

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Has the institution completed an assurance process that provides independent affirmation that the information in its current STARS report is reported in accordance with credit criteria?:
Yes

Did the assurance process include internal review, an external audit, or both?:
Internal review

The name, title, and organizational affiliation of each reviewer:

1- Prof. Maamar Bettayeb- Chair of the STARS committee- Vice Chancellor For Research and Graduate Studies
2- Prof. Imad Alsyouf - Co-Chair of the STARS committee- Director of the Sustainability Office
3- Eng. Bushra Al Jaberi- Member in the committee and the coordinator- Sustainability Analyst
4- Dr. Douglas Rapley and Dr. Firoz Nalakath - Supporter - Leaders of the English Editing and Publications Sustainability Circle


A brief description of the institution’s assurance process:

A Committee was formed to collect the data required (see attached decision).
The STARS manual V2.2 and reporting fields were shared with all committee members
Reporting field categories were allocated to committee members according to their specialists and relevance.
Several meetings were organized by the committee chairs to discuss the STARS reporting criteria with the committee members. Teams were asked to be familiar with the best STARS reports submitted by universities ranked with gold.

Collected data were submitted, presented, and discussed with the committee chairs

Prof. Imad Alsyouf - Director of the Sustainability Office and Eng. Bushra Al Jaberi - Sustainability Analyst reviewed and verified the reported data.

English proofreading was conducted by Dr. Douglas Rapley and Dr. Firoz Nalakath - the Leaders of the English Editing and Publications Sustainability Circle.

A final review was conducted by the Sustainability Office.
The report was reviewed and approved by Prof. Maamar Bettayeb.


Affirmation from the reviewer(s) that the report has been reviewed in full and that all identified inconsistencies and errors have been successfully addressed prior to submitting it to AASH​E:
Completed STARS Review Template:
Affirmation from the reviewer(s) that the report has been reviewed in full and that all identified inconsistencies and errors have been successfully addressed prior to ​submitting it to AASHE (2nd review):
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Completed STARS Review Template (2nd review):
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Affirmation from the reviewer(s) that the report has been reviewed in full and that all identified inconsistencies and errors have been successfully addressed prior to ​submitting it to AASHE​ (3rd review):
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Copy of completed STARS Review Template (3rd review):
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Website URL where information about the institution’s reporting assurance is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.