Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	58.21
Liaison	Olivia Wiebe
Submission Date	Feb. 27, 2019
Executive Letter	Download

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University of Idaho
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	8.43 / 12.00	Robert W. Smith, Ph.D. Senior Associate Vice-President Office of Research and Economic Development

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Part 1

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

705

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

196

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

27.80

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:

30.36

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:

AC 9 Faculty Survey Office of Research June 2017 170612.xlsx

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

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

As a first approximation one-third of UI faculty engage in sustainability research/scholarship. A survey conducted of the chairs of all academic units in April/May of 2017 found that of the 314 faculty members accounted for (52% of instructional and research faculty) in the survey that 101 (32%) had engaged in sustainability research/scholarship. As of the fall of 2015 UI employed a total of 705 employees with faculty status: 553 instructional, 56 research, and 96 public services. (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/InstitutionProfile.aspx?unitId=acafadadb3b0). Assuming that 32% of the remaining instructional and research faculty not accounted for in the April/May survey engaged in sustainability research/scholarship this would be an additional 95 faculty; for an estimated 196 total faculty engaged in sustainability research/scholarship. The spreadsheet with the survey results has been uploaded.

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