Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	60.32
Liaison	Andy Mitchell
Submission Date	July 16, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Illinois Chicago
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	8.17 / 12.00	Cynthia Klein-Banai Associate Chancellor for Sustainability Office of Sustainability

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

3,090

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

194

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:

6.28

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:

70.71

Research Inventory

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):

sustainability_development_goals_2_cleaned_up.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

https://iesp.uic.edu/research-publications/research-projects-2/
https://iesp.uic.edu/research-publications/faculty-publications/

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

To identify the total number of employees doing research, the number of tenure-track, non-tenure, and tenured faculty was recorded.

To identify the number of faculty members engaging in sustainability research, a key word search was done using data in My Activities (https://researchguides.uic.edu/MyActivities) which is a faculty activity reporting system being used by all colleges at UIC. It can be used to collect and analyze research output, and can serve as the single ‘research profile’ that you need to keep track of professional activities and publications. My Activities is powered by a system called Symplectic Elements. The key word search included terms such as ‘sustainable’, ‘sustainability’, ‘poverty’, ‘food’, ‘income distribution’, etc. – a full list of the key words used is provided below. After generating this report, the list was further reviewed and culled by hand based on whether a particular research project fit the description of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals (https://www.aashe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/un_sdgs_and_targets.pdf).

sustainable
sustainability
sustaining
poverty
income distribution
wealth distribution
socio economic
agriculture
food
nutrition
well being
inclusive
equitable
equality
sanitization
water
gender
economic growth
labor
inequality
resilience
resiliant
rural
production
waste
ecology
climate
greenhouse
environment
global warming
weather
pollution
pollutant
biodiversity
ecology
land use
justice
peace
rights

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:

https://iesp.uic.edu/research-publications/research-projects-2/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Office of Research Services

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