Faculty activity reporting has a simple problem that is easy to overlook: faculty and administrators often enter or collect the same information more than once.
A faculty member might update a CV, complete an annual report, provide information for a faculty profile, and respond to a request from an administrator. The information is often the same; the faculty member just has to provide it again.
This unnecessary work just makes it harder to keep faculty information up to date.
The Problem With Duplicate Data
The problem is straightforward: Every copy requires someone to maintain it.
A publication might appear in an annual faculty report, a faculty profile, a program review, and accreditation documentation. When those processes use separate records, someone has to enter or collect that information repeatedly, and then someone else has to make sure all those copies are up to date.
One Set of Data, Multiple Uses
A better approach is to maintain faculty activities in one central system and reuse that information wherever the institution needs it. That’s the idea behind Faculty Atlas.
Faculty maintain their activities throughout the year. Administrators then use that information for different reports and administrative needs instead of asking faculty to recreate it each time.
For example, a faculty member can record a publication once, and the institution can use that information for:
- Annual faculty reports
- Faculty CVs and profiles
- Program reviews
- Accreditation documentation
- Other institutional reports
For faculty members, that means less repetitive reporting. They add activities as they happen instead of digging through old emails, documents, and calendars when a reporting deadline arrives.
For administrators, it means less time chasing information across departments and reconciling different versions of the same data. When a report is needed, the underlying information is already there.
But faculty activity data supports much more than annual reporting, including faculty profiles, program reviews, accreditation, and institutional reporting.
A Simpler Approach to Faculty Activity Reporting
A centralized faculty activity reporting system gives faculty members one place to maintain their information and gives administrators a common source of data for reporting.
It also provides a foundation for automating faculty activity reporting because the institution already has organized information to work with.
Faculty Atlas takes a focused approach to this problem. It gives colleges and universities one place to maintain faculty activities and use that information for their reporting needs.
Enter the information once. Use it wherever it is needed.