Purpose:
To provide information to departments about college policies and procedures related to the Faculty Activity Report (FAR) and Publications Database requirements.
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- Required to be submitted by every faculty member on a yearly basis: “Responsibility for submitting annual reports and for keeping their personnel files up-to-date with any new material concerning teaching activities, research, scholarship, publications or public service rests with the individual faculty members.” (HOP 2-2160)
- Is a report of the completed prior academic year’s activities; e.g., the FAR due in October 2022 2023 will be reporting on AY2021AY2022-2223.
- Used for annual review of faculty and other faculty review processes.
- There is an online FAR system maintained by the Provost Office.
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- Firefox and Google Chrome continue to be the preferred browsers for the FAR system.
- Once the online FAR is submitted, the faculty member will no longer be able to make changes (unless the department chair or admin "Returns" it to them).
- Proxy functionality is available for FARs. Faculty members may assign proxy users to add, edit and delete data in the FAR and, if necessary, submit the FAR on behalf of the faculty member. Proxy users are managed in the Publications Database section.
- Each faculty member will only be able to view his or her own profile or FAR, unless they are a chair or dean. Chairs will be able to view created FARs in their department and track submission through the FAR Administration Tool.
- Questions and comments regarding the functionality of the online FAR can be sent using the link at the bottom of the Faculty Activity Report, or by clicking here: evpp-aps@utexas.eduby submitting a Service Now ticket via the Faculty Affairs & Academic Personnel Services Portal.
FAQ:
Q: Why say deadline is October 1 but then refer to 'department’s internal deadline'?
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DEPT | Reporting Method | Deadline |
AADS | online FAR | October 1 |
AMER | online FAR | October 30 |
ANTH | dept process | November 15 |
ASIA | dept process /(online FAR combo?optional) | October 1 |
CLAS | online FAR | October 1 |
ECON | dept process | May 1 |
ENGL | dept form | October 30 |
FRIT | online FAR | October 1 |
GEOG | online FAR | October 1 |
GRMN | dept form | December 4 |
GOVT | online FAR | April 30 |
HIST | online FAR | October 1 |
LING | online FAR | October 16 |
MALS | online FAR | October 1 |
MEST | online FAR | November 15 |
PHIL | online FAR | December 1 |
PSYConline | FARdept process | December 31 |
RELG | online FAR/dept process | October 30 |
RHEC | dept form | October 13 |
SLAV | online FAR | October 1 |
SOCL | online FAR | October 1 |
SPAN | online FAR | October 1 |
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