Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.34
Liaison Jennifer Kleindienst
Submission Date Dec. 20, 2019

STARS v2.2

Wesleyan University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.42 / 12.00 Barry Chernoff
Director
College of the Environment
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
367

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
34

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
9.26

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
39

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
23

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
58.97

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
See attached

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
Prof. Barry Chernoff compiled a list of known faculty engaged in sustainability research. This list included only career-track faculty, not visitors. This list included verification of research on public faculty pages and/or confirmation with the individual faculty members.

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:
Note that the link above is incomplete, as most faculty do not use the internal WesScholar platform. Most research is available on individual faculty pages.

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