Florida State University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

The research inventory was conducted using information from informational interviews, University communications channels, the Faculty Expertise and Advancement System (FEAS) application, the Pivot database, and Collaborative Collision events.
Sustainable Campus staff held informational interviews with 84 faculty members whose research or teaching relates to sustainability. Interviewees provided referrals, which helped to identify additional research related to sustainability.
Sustainable Campus staff monitored University communication channels and social media for news and updates related to sustainability research. Researchers and faculty members who were mentioned in articles or social media posts were added to the inventory.
The Office of Faculty Development and Advancement maintains the Faculty Expertise and Advancement System (FEAS) application with information on faculty such as: teaching activities, scholarly or creative activities, grants received, and service. FEAS was used to gather research information on research faculty that received a research grant or published a refereed journal article within the year timeframe of July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022. Maintaining the above parameters, the FEAS keyword search tool was utilized and reviewed to verify the research was in fact sustainability research. See the Appendix for the full list of keywords.
Pivot is a database with 27,000+ funding opportunities that allows users to set up searches and alerts. Pivot provides information about researchers in virtually all fields – including non-sciences. The Pivot database was used to research information on research faculty that received a research grant, published a refereed journal article, and/or included sustainability on their professional webpage within the year timeframe of July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2022. The Pivot database keyword search tool was utilized and reviewed to verify the research was sustainability research.
Collaborative Collision is an interdisciplinary networking program designed to connect researchers with complementary interests, turn those connections into collaborations, and accelerate their success through an internal funding competition. Attendance lists and presentation samples from the Collaborative Connector and Collaborative Accelerator events were utilized to identify faculty members and researchers that were interested in or had completed research on a sustainability-related topic.

Number of tenured faculty as reported by the Office of Research. Whereas part of their tenure track, faculty are required to conduct research in their field. Data collected above is for faculty and did not include staff.
https://ir.fsu.edu/faculty_headcount.aspx.