Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	58.92
Liaison	Caitlin Steele
Submission Date	June 8, 2018
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

San Francisco State University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	8.52 / 12.00	Nick Kordesch Sustainability Coordinator Office of Sustainability

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Part 1

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

767

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

103

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

13.43

Part 2

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

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

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

39.39

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:

SFSU Sustainability Researchers 2018.xlsx

The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:

See attached Excel spreadsheet

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

Data compliled by conducting SF State website searches for sustainability research. Data on grant-funded research supplied by Michael Scott of SF State Office of Research and Sponsored Programs: https://research.sfsu.edu/fac_res_interests Determined total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research by using a headcount of tenure track faculty. Non-tenure track researchers found through SF State website. 21 California Academy of Sciences listed as SF State faculty, 10 are engaged in sustainability research. Determined number of departments using SF State website: http://www.sfsu.edu/deptpage/acaddept.htm

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

https://research.sfsu.edu/fac_res_interests

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Curators at the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) may have graduate faculty status in the Biology Department as CAS Research Professors. These faculty may accept and direct their own graduate students. http://biology.sfsu.edu/content/cas-research-professors