Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.08
Liaison Andrew Horning
Submission Date June 25, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of Michigan
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.41 / 12.00 Andrew Horning
Managing Director
Graham Sustainability Institute
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
6,294

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
852

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
13.54

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
70

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
61

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
87.14

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:
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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:
http://graham.umich.edu/experts

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
Each year we contact newly hired faculty and ask them to complete a survey, indicating whether their research is related to or focused on sustainability issues. Faculty that respond yes to this survey are entered into our experts database and asked to provide a paragraph describing their relevant research. For the purposes of this STARS submission we are only including faculty because we do not know the total number of staff engaged in research. Once per year we check the status of experts and remove those who have been terminated. We also send an email to all experts once a year to allow them to opt out of being considered an expert if their research focus has changed.

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