Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	67.00
Liaison	Ken Foster
Submission Date	March 15, 2018
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Vassar College
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	10.62 / 12.00	Alistair Hall Sustainability Assistant Dean of Strategic Planning

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Part 1

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

276

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

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

29.71

Part 2

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

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

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

57.69

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:

STARS Faculty Research - Sheet1.pdf

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

The list was built by looking through departmental faculty bios for key research terms, follow up emails to professors to clarify their current research interested helped ensure accuracy.

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