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
Complete 8.52 / 12.00 Nick Kordesch
Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Sustainability
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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

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
66

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
26

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
39.39

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:

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


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


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

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