Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.52
Liaison Lindsey MacDonald
Submission Date March 1, 2019
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STARS v2.1

Western Washington University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.97 / 12.00 Masha Szaro
Research Assistant
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
116

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
49

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
42.24

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
35

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
13

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
37.14

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:
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 University does not have a central body that collects information on all research conducted by out faculty. However, the Office Research and Sponsored Programs requires documentation of any project that requires human interaction. We have searched through that inventory and compiled a list of ongoing research that relates to sustainability. We specifically searched for key-words: 'sustainability', 'environment', 'ecology', 'social justice', 'equity', 'diversity', 'local', and 'agriculture'.


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