Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 80.84
Liaison Alex Davis
Submission Date Feb. 27, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Arizona State University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.92 / 12.00 Corey Hawkey
Assistant Director
University Sustainability Practices
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
1,461

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
860

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
58.86

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
127

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
94

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
74.02

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:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
https://sustainability.asu.edu/people/

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
Process: Arizona State University award data are queried using the following sustainability indicators: Sustainability Scientists and Scholars (Investigators) Keywords Centers Colleges Sponsors Each set of results are then combined together resulting in a distinct set of award numbers, thus eliminating duplicate reporting of expenditure values. Final expenditure totals are generated from this distinct set of awards and categorized based on survey instructions. For information purposes, the criteria for each category are included in the uploaded spreadsheets.

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