Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.65
Liaison Jennifer Bodine
Submission Date Feb. 19, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Weber State University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.15 / 12.00 Keilee Stratton
Student Sustainability Intern
Sustainability Practices and Research Center
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
476

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
60

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
12.61

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
47

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
30

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
63.83

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):
A survey was sent out to all faculty on campus via Qualtrics and responses were collected electronically. Any respondents who answered "Yes" to any one of the following three questions were counted as a faculty member conducting sustainability research. 1. Does your research/project explicitly address sustainability and/or further our understanding of the interconnectedness of social, economic and environmental issues? 2. Does your research/project contribute directly toward solving one or more major sustainability challenges? 3. Does your research/project engage community members with the aim of combining knowledge and action to achieve positive social, economic, and/or environmental outcomes (e.g. participatory and community-based research and engaged scholarship)?

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