Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	55.86
Liaison	Aldo Pierini
Submission Date	Sept. 16, 2021

STARS v2.2

Villanova University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	11.22 / 12.00

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

553

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

13.92

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:

70.59

Research Inventory

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

STARS_Sustainability_Research_2020.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:

Our team sent out Emails to each department chair at the university asking for a count of employees in their department that are engaged in research, a count employees engaged in sustainability research, and the names of those employees. The chair of each department was given a description of what qualifies as sustainability research using STARS language. Given the provided criteria, department chairs responded by identifying the number of sustainability researchers and providing names of those employees.

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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