Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	66.29
Liaison	Kevin Kirsche
Submission Date	Dec. 22, 2017
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University of Georgia
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	9.82 / 12.00	Tyra Byers Program 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):

1,824

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

846

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

46.38

Part 2

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

155

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:

47.74

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:

UGA Faculty Engaged in Sustainability Research_2017.xlsx

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

A list is available at: https://sustainability.uga.edu/research/

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

--Searched FRED (Faculty Research Expertise Database) with the following key terms: Carbon, Climate Change, Compost, Conservation, Ecolog-, Ecosystem, Emissions, Energy, Environ, Food System, Forestry, Greenhouse, Landscape, Natural Resource, Social Justice, Sustain-, Urban Agriculture, Urban Design, Waste, Water --Listed these researchers, delete those who, based on their grants/project descriptions are not sustainability-related (ex: search term is "landscape" but they research "the political landscape" of NY in the 1950s) --Emailed all 868 who resulted from this search, delete those who reply opting out.

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

2017 UGA Faculty Engaged in Sustainability Research.xlsx

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