Faculty Research on Sustainability-Focused Topics at WCU
Below you will find a link to an inventory documenting full and part-time faculty
members at West Chester University who conducted research related to one or more of
the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals between the fall semester of 2018 and the end of summer sessions of 2019. These 73
faculty members represent 29 separate academic departments on campus and collectively
are addressing research questions related to most of the 17 SDGs. Information for
this inventory was collected by an electronic survey distributed to all 980 full‐
and part‐ time faculty in September 2019 by WCU's Office of Sustainability working
in collaboration with Professors Lisa Calvano (Management) and Joan Welch (Geography
& Planning).
Find the full list of faculty research projects addressing the UN SDGs here.
Digital Commons - WCU Campus Sustainability Initiatives
Passionate faculty and students at WCU seek to use their research to understand and
appreciate how the natural world and humanity can co-exist. A collection of reports,
presentations, and surveys can now be found on the Digital Commons Sustainability Research and Creative Activities page, showcasing their hardwork and dedication. You can access the 2018 Commuter and Parking
Survey, previous proposals for the Sustainability Research and Creative Activities
Grant, The WCU Landscape Master Plan, as well as data from a mapping project on the
invasive species, the Spotted Lantern Fly, in the Gordon Natural Area. If you have
a report, poster, or presentation you would like to add to this collection, please
contact Walter Cressler, Department of University Libraries.
WCU Campus Sustainability Research and Creative Activities Grant
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at West Chester University sponsors a Campus Sustainability Research and Creative
Activities Grant each year with a Request for Proposals released in the early Spring
semester with the Award Cycle extending from March 1st to June 30th of that same year.
In the most recent grant application cycle, accessible through WCU’s InfoReady website, grants of up to $2,000 (a total $8,000 available) were solicited. Notice of the
release of the annual Request for Proposals is made via email messages to all faculty
and via Office of Sustainability email bulletins.