Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 75.41
Liaison Marianne Martin
Submission Date March 23, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of Colorado Boulder
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.72 / 12.00 Robert Stubbs
Director, Institutional Research
Data Analytics
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
2,271

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
329

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
14.49

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
112

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
69

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
61.61

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):
Tenured and tenure-track faculty plus research faculty with an active appointment at CU Boulder. Defined sustainability research by key words that faculty use to describe their research interest. The above list does not contain faculty and staff that have not reported their reasearch to the University Research Database VIVO. The above data is conservative without the inclusion of newly awarded research.

Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
University of Colorado Boulder Institutional Research network path: L:\IR\consult\EnvironmentalCenter\STARS_2017.sas

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.