Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 75.28
Liaison Chris Frantsvog
Submission Date Feb. 25, 2022

STARS v2.2

Luther College
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Jon Jensen
Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies
Philosophy, Environmental Studies
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
125

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
33

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
26.40

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
24

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
18

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
75

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
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 Provost's Office provided the current (2021) number of tenured/tenure track faculty. These faculty are required to conduct research.

These activities were entered into a spreadsheet. In the fall of 2018, Luther College's Sustainability Coordinator attempted to meet with all departments to talk about the requirements for STARS that related to the curriculum and research. The Coordinator gave forms to all department heads to fill out with instructions on how the Center for Sustainable Communities would collect information about sustainability-focused and sustainability-related courses, research, and campus as a living laboratory programs. Sustainability staff reviewed faculty responses to these forms and then reviewed all professors' research interests and CVs to ensure that the reported research could be considered sustainability research by the STARS definition.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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