| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 52.65 |
| Liaison | Audrey McSain |
| Submission Date | July 13, 2016 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Lehigh University
AC-10: Support for Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 4.00 |
Alan
Snyder Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies Research & Graduate Studies |
Does the institution have a program to encourage student sustainability research that meets the criteria for this credit?:
A brief description of the institution’s program(s) to encourage student research in sustainability:
Science, Technology, Environment, Policy and Society (STEPS) and the Environmental Initiative offers funding to encourage students from all majors and all Colleges to engage in creative, independent research and scholarship under faculty supervision that focuses on the intersection of energy, environment, policy,economics and sustainability. These grants are intended to fund paid summer fellowships of 6 or 10 weeks duration that will correspond with full or second summer semester time periods established by the registrar or credit-bearing fellowships during the academic year.
The website URL where information about the student research program is available:
Does the institution have a program to encourage faculty sustainability research that meets the criteria for this credit?:
A brief description of the institution’s program(s) to encourage faculty research in sustainability:
The website URL where information about the faculty research program is available:
Has the institution formally adopted policies and procedures that give positive recognition to interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary research during faculty promotion and/or tenure decisions?:
A brief description or the text of the institution’s policy regarding interdisciplinary research:
The website URL where information about the treatment of interdisciplinary research is available:
Does the institution provide ongoing library support for sustainability research and learning that meets the criteria for this credit?:
A brief description of the institution's library support for sustainability research and learning:
The Librarians write Library Research Guides, including ones covering the topics of sustainability that are available to faculty, staff and students on the Library website. Examples of environmental research guides:
http://libraryguides.lehigh.edu/ees379
http://libraryguides.lehigh.edu/es125
The Library has a current exhibit on the trees at Lehigh to get the word out about the campus natural environment. Here is the link to this exhibit from the LTS web page:
http://ltsnews.lehigh.edu/node/201
The website URL where information about the institution's library support for sustainability is available:
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