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UT policy

Per HOP 2-2151: Annual Evaluation of Faculty, all faculty submit a report each year of their involvement in teaching, research, and service activities. The annual reporting requirement applies to all tenured, tenure-track, and professional-track faculty in all ranks. The report must be submitted by October 1 each year. Annual guidelines are available at EVPP: Faculty Evaluation > Annual and Comprehensive Periodic Review of Faculty > Guidelines for Annual Review of Faculty.

Proxy functionality is available for the FAR.  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 Publications.

COE policy and process

The COE requires the online Faculty Activity Report (FAR) as the basis for the annual review of faculty. Early each fall, the Dean’s Office communicates this message college-wide with a reminder sent to each department chair for distribution to the faculty. Each of the College’s five department Budget Councils or Executive Committees has an approved annual review process that requires peer review of T/TT faculty in the broad areas of teaching, scholarship, and service. For this review, the FAR is supplemented with other material specific to the department, e.g., CIS data, syllabi.

Recommendations for salary advancement, promotion in rank, tenure, renewal of appointment, or non-renewal of appointment, are based on excellence in performance in these areas.

The final results of the annual evaluation shall be communicated in writing to each faculty member by the Department Chair. This communication shall advise the faculty member of any areas that need improvement.

See more at COE Faculty Activity Report Process.

Instructions

1. Review COE Faculty Activity Report Process.

2. Access the Faculty Activity Report (FAR) system online. Recommended browsers for the report are Firefox and Google Chrome.

   1. FAR Help and Instructions are available at the online FAR system home page above the academic year.

   2. Instructions are also available at Box: Faculty Activity Report Instructions.

3. Notes:

   1. FAR no longer displays faculty degrees. UT employees may review and update their own degree information in Workday, at Worker Profile > Career > Education.

   2. Course Instructor Survey (CIS) Ratings only display for academic years from 2015-16 through 2021-22. Current course evaluation ratings can be found on the Explorance Course Evaluations website.

   3. Research data is available for import.

Please send any questions about the FAR or authorization requests for FAR Admin to the Provost’s Office through the Faculty Affairs & Academic Personnel Services Portal.

Please send suggested additions to this page and notifications about broken links to COE-FacultyAffairs@austin.utexas.edu.