Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	57.98
Liaison	Jay Price
Submission Date	March 6, 2020
Executive Letter	Download

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University of Tennessee at Knoxville
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	11.88 / 12.00	Jay Price Sustainability Manager Facilities Services

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Part 1

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

857

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

149

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

17.39

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:

73.44

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:

All Sustainability Research FY17.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):

First, the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment and the Howard H. Baker Jr Center for Public Policy provided a list of researchers engaged in sustainability research. Then, the Office of Sustainability obtained a report from the Office of Research and Engagement which listed research projects active between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. This list included investigator names, department affiliations, project titles, and project abstracts. The Office of Sustainability also acquired a similar report of UT Institute of Agriculture research projects for FY 2016. An Office of Sustainability staff member used keyword searches to find the majority of sustainability-related projects. Then, the remaining abstracts were read individually to determine if the research contributes toward realizing one or more of the principles outlined in the Earth Charter or one or more of the targets embedded in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

http://trace.tennessee.edu/do/search/?q=sustainability&start=0&context=1340458&facet=publication_year%3A2017# http://isse.utk.edu/publications/annualreports.html Note: Data submitted is being carried over from the 2018 submission.