Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.78
Liaison Amber Saxton
Submission Date Sept. 1, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

George Mason University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.49 / 12.00 Mary Liang
Sustainability Analyst
Sustainability
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
902

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
187

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
20.73

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
57

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
32

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
56.14

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:
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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 head count was from a list of faculty members who conduct sustainability scholarly research from the Office of Research & Economic Development. Additionally, a list of faculty members whose research supports one of the 10 principles of the UN Global Compact was used to find sustainability scholars. Researchers were included in the head count if they conducted sustainability and human rights research. Both lists were audited to remove any adjunct faculty, affiliate faculty, staff members, and faculty members no longer at Mason.

Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
This information is for FY2016.

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