| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.01 |
| Liaison | Paul Mathisen |
| Submission Date | May 23, 2017 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
AC-9: Research and Scholarship
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
12.00 / 12.00 |
John
Orr Professor Liberal Arts & Computer Engineering |
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Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
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The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
To identify faculty who are engaged in sustainability research, we reviewed the online faculty profiles of: faculty associated with sustainability-focused academic programs; faculty who listed relevant research interests in the graduate course catalog; faculty who taught a sustainability-related course; faculty associated with a sustainability-related academic center; and other faculty members known to be engaged in sustainability research. In addition, we distributed a survey to faculty through which they were asked to describe any sustainability-related research in which they are currently engaged or were engaged within the last three years. For scoring purposes, we counted only on tenured and tenure-track faculty since conducting research is one of their job responsibilities. However, some teaching professors and other non-tenure track individuals also do substantial sustainability research. We have listed them in a separate worksheet of the inventory to recognize their work but make clear that it is not part of the scoring calculation.
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