Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	46.35
Liaison	Alan Burr
Submission Date	March 2, 2018
Executive Letter	Download

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University of Wisconsin-Platteville
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	5.34 / 12.00	Amy Seeboth-Wilson Sustainability Coordinator Facilities Management

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Part 1

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

382

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 :

6.02

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:

36.59

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:

UWP_Sus_Research_FY17.pdf

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

See attached list.

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

An ad hoc committee was formed in 2016 to research this question. We emailed all teaching faculty and staff to ask them whether their researched focused on sustainability. This list includes all those that said they did.

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount): We don't readily have a number of those engaged in ACTIVE research, so we chose to include the headcount of all faculty and instructional academic staff for 2016-17 to be conservative. https://www.wisconsin.edu/accountability/access/ Total number of academic departments: Majors Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research: Again, we used "majors" as our "academic dept." Faculty listed above as doing research in sustainability teach in 15 majors on campus: Chemistry Ag Business Soil and Crop Science Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Environmental Horticulture Animal Science Environmental Engineering English Biology Geography Industrial Engineering Criminal Justice Business Administration Accounting