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2023 COE Faculty Activity Report

2023 COE Faculty Activity Reports are due to the dean March 1, 2024. Completed FARs should be submitted to your department liaison by the date designated in the department, and then uploaded by the department liaison to the COE google shared drive by March 1, 2024.

The recording of the COE Elements/FAR workshop held in December 2023 is below.

T&R Faculty - The method of reporting will use the electronic faculty activity report system (EFARS) with COE required additions as manual entries into the Word document. You will need to use the template for Engineering available from the University Data Commons. Select the block for “Faculty Activity”, and then in the pull-down menu on the top right for “Faculty Activity Reports”, select “Individual”.  For the “Report”, select the “2023 COE Annual Faculty Report – Limited Elements” or the “2023 Annual Faculty Report – Full Elements”.  As explained in the templates, the former auto-populates select entries of SECTION TWO in the template from university data sources, whereas the latter populates additional entries for SECTION TWO from your Elements profile.  Once you select the Report type, at the bottom of this UDC webpage is a link to download the template and review the instructions. If you have any additional questions on how to complete your EFAR, your department’s EFAR liaison can assist you.  Additional help is available through the University Libraries resource. (e.g. tabs “College Guides & Templates”, “Support”, “FAQs”, “Manually Enter Activities”)

A/P Faculty – The method of reporting may use the electronic faculty activity report system (EFARS) with the 2023 COE Annual Faculty Report template (as described above) or the 2023 COE AP Faculty Activity Report Template alone.

Who needs to complete a Faculty Activity Report?

  • Tenure Track Faculty
  • Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
  • Instructional Appointments
  • Continued Appointment Faculty
  • A/P Faculty (who can use the EFARS system as well).  Because of the nature of the EFARS system, AP faculty may want to just use the COE AP Faculty Activity Report template.
  • Research Faculty and Post Docs need to have a written performance review as stated in section 6.7 of the Faculty Handbook. They can accomplish this by completing a FAR for their annual evaluation and can use the EFARS system and COE template; use the AP Faculty Report template; or just have a signed written performance review.
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