Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	53.46
Liaison	Winnie Mulamba
Submission Date	March 13, 2017
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

University of South Florida St. Petersburg
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	11.33 / 12.00	Brian Pullen Sustainability Planner Facilities Services

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Part 1

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

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

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

18.37

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:

66.67

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:

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

Heather Judkins, Biological Sciences Maria Leite, Biological Sciences Richard Mbatu, Biological Sciences Melanie Riedinger-Whitmore, Biological Sciences Thomas Whitmore, Biological Sciences Leon Hardy, Biological Sciences Karin Braunsberger, College of Business SP Anna Lewis, College of Education SP Charles Vanover, College of Education SP Henry Alegria, Environmental Science and Policy and Geography Kathleen Carvalho-Knighton, Environmental Science and Policy and Geography Barnali Dixon, Environmental Science and Policy and Geography Christopher Meindl, Environmental Science and Policy and Geography Joseph Smoak, Environmental Science and Policy and Geography Raymond Arsenault, History and Politics Herschel Conner, Verbal & Visual Arts Thomas Hallock, Verbal & Visual Arts http://www.usfsp.edu/sustainability/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):

We sent a survey to all department chairs containing the definition of "sustainability research" that asked them to identify all faculty in their department that would meet the criteria for this credit. We also conducted a review of faculty bios to identify any work or research that may have been overlooked by department chairs. We then sent an email to all faculty identified as being involved in sustainability research, asking them to 1) verify that they are indeed engaged in sustainability research, and 2) if there were any faculty missing from the list of those engaged in such research.

Optional Fields

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

http://www.usfsp.edu/sustainability/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

http://www.usfsp.edu/usfsp-start/search/?q=sustainability+research&submit=Search