Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.90
Liaison Hannes Gerhardt
Submission Date March 30, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of West Georgia
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.72 / 12.00 Hannes Gerhardt
Sustainability Director
Department of Geosciences
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
294

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
23

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
7.82

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
29

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
13

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
44.83

Research Inventory 

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:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
See PDF attachment above.

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
We conducted a faculty-wide survey and assigned sustainability taskforce members to reach out to individual faculty members who were believed to have knowledge about on-campus research.

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