Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.24
Liaison Paul Scanlon
Submission Date Feb. 22, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Slippery Rock University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.73 / 12.00 Paul Scanlon
Special Assistant to the President
President's Office/Sustainability
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
81

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
19

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
23.46

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
37

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
8

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
21.62

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:
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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:
1. Geography, Geology & the Environment: Xianfeng Chen Tamra Schiappa Langdon Smith Julie Snow Jack Livingston Patrick Burkhart 2. Business Department: John Golden Li Pu 3. Parks and Recreation Department: Rebecca Thomas Shawn Davis Betsy Kemeny 4. Biology: Michael Stapleton Dean DeNicola

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 research inventory was completed using a combination of self-reporting by faculty members; review of research grant and Green Fund Grant project announcements; a review of publications published in the Deans' quarterly reports.

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