Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	69.47
Liaison	Ken Foster
Submission Date	March 4, 2021

STARS v2.2

Vassar College
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	11.02 / 12.00	Cora Kenfield Director of Sustainability Office of Sustainability

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

276

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

24.64

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

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

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

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

62.79

Research Inventory

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):

STARS_Faculty_Research_-_Sheet1_5AMeycf.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

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.

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:

Current listing of departments is available here: https://www.vassar.edu/academics/departments/