Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.82
Liaison Ashley Woolman
Submission Date May 16, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Western Colorado University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.45 / 12.00 Ashley Woolman
Sustainability Coordinator
Facilities Services
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
44

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
5

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
11.36

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
11

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

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
36.36

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:
sustainability research.xlsx

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):
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.

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