Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 63.21
Liaison Mark Klapatch-Mathias
Submission Date June 30, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Wisconsin-River Falls
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Mark Klapatch-Mathias
Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
60

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
47

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
78.33

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
20

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
18

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
90

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
See attached file.

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
UWRF does not centrally track faculty research so a comprehensive inventory is unknown. For the purposes of completing this report, we use the data available to us from the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (URSCA). The URSCA office tracks student research through their grant process. Through this process, the faculty mentors involved in research are identified. We also conducted a survey out to all faculty and instructional academic staff for them to self-report any research they are involved with. The attached excel workbook provides a comprehensive list faculty research. We get the above numbers from the spreadsheet. We extrapolate each faculty/staff member involved in research so we do not double count them, thus providing an accurate assessment of the number of employees involved in research as well as which ones are more specifically involved in sustainability research.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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