SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Faculty Research | |
| Incorporate SHSU faculty and students in conducting externally funded reasearch at TRIES. Associated Goals: Environmental Research |
| Indicator | Faculty Participation Number of SHSU faculty and students who conduct research with TRIES. |
| Criteria | Faculty Research Get two new faculty members or their students working on projects associated with TRIES. |
| Finding | Faculty Research One faculty member and one student research group used TRIES facilities. |
| Action | Faculty Research Maintain goal of having two faculty or student researcher working on projects associated with TRIES each year. |
| Objective | TRIES Research | |
| Initiate new research projects taht will be conducted by TRIES personel. Associated Goals: Environmental Research |
| Indicator | Research Projects Number of externally funded reasearch projects being conducted by TRIES personel. |
| Criteria | TRIES Research Successfully bring one new, externally funded research project to TRIES. |
| Finding | TRIES Research There were two externally funded projects, one was new. |
| Action | TRIES Research The goal of adding one newly funded research project will be maintained for the next year. |
| Objective | Faculty Research Support | |
| Provide access to TRIES equipment and expertise to aid SHSU faculty and students in their research. Associated Goals: Faculty Research |
| Indicator | Research Support Number of SHSU researchers who are supported by TRIES equipment, facilities, or expertise. |
| Criteria | Research Support Provide support in the form of expertise or equipment for two faculty or student projects at SHSU. |
| Finding | Research Support Provided supervision for 8 chemistry students in instrumental analysis. |
| Action | Faculty Research TRIES will maintain this goal for another year. |
| Objective | Community Environmental Education | |
| Provide environmental awareness to civic groups, schools, and citizens of Texas. Associated Goals: Service To Community |
| Indicator | Community Awareness Number of public notices that are delivered through media sources to make citizens aware of environmental issues and activities of TRIES. |
| Criteria | Media Exposure Get at least two articles or notices in public media sources to highlight the activities of TRIES or make citizens aware of environmental issues. |
| Finding | Media Exposure One article in the Huntsville Item about the bioreactor project. |
| Indicator | Community Outreach Number of educational outreach events to educate the east Texas community about environmental issues. |
| Criteria | Community Outreach Participate in at least two community functions where TRIES presents environmental materials. |
| Finding | Community Outreach Staff gave a presentation at the Trade Expo. |
| Criteria | Educational Outreach Give at least one presentation at an east Texas school concerning TRIES or environmental issues. |
| Finding | Educational Outreach Gave presentations to two school groups that visited TRIES. |
| Action | Community Outreach TRIES will again attempt to make two community presentations. |
| Action | Educational Outreach TRIES will again plan to give at least one presentation ot a school group. |
| Action | Media Exposure We will revise our goal to a more realistic one article per year. |
| Objective | Environmental Monitoring And Analysis | |
| Provide environmental service to evaluate environmental conditions and problems in east Texas. Associated Goals: Service To Community |
| Indicator | Environmental Analysis Number of clients for which TRIES provides technical environmental analysis. |
| Criteria | Sellf Sufficiency Make analytical lab financially self-supporting. |
| Finding | Self sufficeincy Lab brought in less than $16,000 with personell and lab expenses at nearly $60,000. |
| Criteria | analysis services Provide environmental analytical services for at least 6 clients. |
| Finding | Analysis Services Tries provided services to 54 clients. |
| Indicator | Environmental Monitoring Number of environmental monitoring projects conducted to assess environmental health of a given area. |
| Criteria | Environmental Monitoring Establish at least one environmental monitoring project in east Texas. |
| Finding | Environmental Monitoring TRIES did not conduct any environmental monitoring projects. |
| Action | Analysis Services Tries will increase its goal. The initial goal was based on engaging large clients, with big projects. The reality of this year was that we had many clients with small projects. Still, we will be working to get more larger projects, thus we will not increase our goal as high as might be expected based on this year''s results. |
| Action | Environmental monitoring We will again try to start a TRIES sponsored environmental monitoring project, possibly by incorporating a faculty member of student researcher. |
| Action | Self Sufficiency TRIES will work towards the goal of making its analytical lab financially self-sufficient. The lab is currently far from that goal and we realize that it could take more than one year to reach the goal. We will try to work with external entities to try to speed the progress toward this goal. |
| Objective | Community Image | |
| Improve awareness of the research expertise and activity by the east Texas community. Associated Goals: TRIES Image |
| Indicator | Visibility Number of positive exposures of TRIES through community media and outreach events. |
| Criteria | Positive Image Have two positive citations of TRIES by community media. |
| Finding | Positive Image One article in the Huntsville Item favorably overviewing TRIES research. |
| Action | Positive Image The criteria of having two media citations will be revised to a more realistic one. |
| Objective | SHSU Awareness | |
| Improve awareness of research activities and opportunities to the SHSU faculty and students. Associated Goals: TRIES Image |
| Indicator | SHSU Exposure Number of presentations by TRIES associates to the SHSU community or mention of TRIES activities in the SHSU media. |
| Criteria | SHSU Presentation Give one presentation to an on campus Department or SHSU organization. |
| Finding | SHSU Presentation Gave an instrumental analysis demonstration to a chemistry class. |
| Criteria | SHSU Press Be mentioned in a positive manner by one SHSU press release or internal news article. |
| Finding | SHSU Press Two articles were posted on the SHSU web page concerning research at TRIES. |
| Action | SHSU Presentation TRIES will again have the same goal for next year. |
| Action | SHSU Press TRIES will maintain the same goal next year. |
| Objective | Scientific Image | |
| Improve the stature of research being conducted at TRIES Associated Goals: TRIES Image |
| Indicator | Grants Amount of external funding coming to TRIES and its researchers. |
| Criteria | Funding Level Achieve a 1.5 million dollar yearly external funding level at TRIES. |
| Finding | Funding Level Two externally funded projects brought in over $1.6 million. |
| Indicator | Publications Number of scientific publications related to research activities associated with TRIES. |
| Criteria | Research Publications Have two scientific, peer-reviewed publications with a TRIES by-line. |
| Finding | Research Publications No externally funded publications were produced. |
| Action | Funding Level TRIES will maintain the same funding level goal. |
| Action | Research Publications TRIES will stress to its employees that peer-reviewed publications are a goal of TRIES and we will try to reach this goal in the next year. |