Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	65.15
Liaison	Amber Saxton
Submission Date	Jan. 8, 2021

STARS v2.2

George Mason University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	12.00 / 12.00	Leah Nichols Executive Director ISE

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

805

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

556

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:

69.07

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:

77.33

Research Inventory

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):

Sustainability_Faculty_ISE.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

The Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning provided the number of full-time and part-time employees engaged in research. The Institute for a Sustainable Earth maintains a list of affiliated employees who conduct research on campus. Each of these affiliated employees work on sustainability research that has received internal and/or external funding. ISE uses the UN Sustainable Development Goals for guidance on how it defines sustainability. The director of ISE confirmed that each affiliated employee is actively engaged in sustainability related research.

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:

https://ise.gmu.edu/faculty-directory/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

This information is for FY2019.

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