Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.27
Liaison Suchi Daniels
Submission Date Feb. 22, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of South Florida (Tampa)
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.47 / 12.00 John Cannon
Senior ERP Analyst
Research & Innovation
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
1,129

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
577

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
51.11

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
180

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
123

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
68.33

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:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
For a sample, see: http://www.usf.edu/pcgs/research-and-initiatives/index.aspx

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 first used key words to get a list of research areas on sustainability. Then looked on the overview of research activities and names of faculty and departments involved in sustainability related research works.

Optional Fields 

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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The IC-3 reports the academic departments in the different colleges on our campus. The 180 research departments included research centers and individual research institutions on campus which often are affiliated with multiple departments with various fields of study, programs, subject areas or the equivalent. For Example The Center for Transportation Research is housed by the Engineering College to be engaged with multiple departments there such as Computer Science and Civil Engineering, but also involves faculty from Anthropology and Economics.

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