Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 36.77
Liaison Ashley Woolman
Submission Date Feb. 16, 2016
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STARS v2.0

Western Colorado University
AC-9: Academic Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.45 / 12.00 Brooke Moran
Professor & Chair of the Sustainability Action Committee
Recreation & Outdoor Education
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Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
5

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in research:
44

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
4

The total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that conduct research:
11

A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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:

Brooke Moran emailed Chairs asking them to respond with tallies for their departments. She never heard from any Chairs, so she inventoried departments she was familiar with (ROE, ESS/HAEP, ENVS/MEM, BIO), and then made a conservative guess re: the number of faculty conducting research.


A brief description of notable accomplishments during the previous three years by faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
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The website URL where information about sustainability research is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Information as of fall 2015


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