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Faculty Activity Reporting

Once a year, departments submit faculty activity reports to the dean's office. As of fall 2011 this process has transitioned from paper to online. Arts & Sciences is currently using an application called Activity Insight for this purpose.

For additional user support, please contact your departmental support contact or send an email to facultyreports@artsci.wustl.edu.

Please see the list of Frequently Asked Questions below. For all other questions and comments, please contact Bill Darby, Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences.

Frequently Asked Questions

General

The annual faculty report consists of two parts: (1) providing information on the past year's activities and (2) a copy of your current CV. Information on the past year should be reviewed and/or entered as needed in the appropriate section. You can upload a copy of your CV at the end of the section called "General Information/Personal and Contact Information."  

What is the date range for which I need to provide information?
Unless otherwise specified by your department, you will need to provide information for the past academic year, ie July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011.

I'm feeling overwhelmed. Do I really need to enter all of my information from the beginning of my career?
No, there is no need to type in your entire CV. You only need to enter or verify the information for the past academic year.

How do I assign a proxy to enter the information on my behalf?
Send your request with the proxy's name and email address to facultyreports@artsci.wustl.edu.

I've just discovered an error. What should I do?
If it is an error in an editable field, please make the correction in the system. For all other errors please send an email with specific details to Jonathan Cohen and your departmental administrator.

I've completed and/or reviewed all of the appropriate annual data. How do I submit my report?
There is no submit functionality in this system. Once you've saved all the data you want in the form you want, you're done. Check with your department chair in case there is a department-specific procedure to notify him/her when you have completed your report.

I am using Safari as my browser and the PasteBoard button does not appear.
Unfortunately, this is an error in the system. We have alerted Digital Measures to the problem. In the meantime, this function does work in other browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Our department has a new faculty member who is not in the system. What should we do?
Please notify Jonathan Cohen, but keep in mind that since the report covers the past academic year much of this will not be applicable. The faculty member is encouraged to upload a current copy of the CV.

Publications

Please note that publications data have been imported from several sources, including Scopus, Web of Science and the WU Bookstore. However, these sources are not always complete. We encourage you to check this data and make corrections as necessary.

The number of citations for my publication is wrong.  How can I correct it?
Although the two sources we used for citations, Scopus and Web of Science, are used by a number of data reporting services and ranking agencies, we have found them to be highly questionable insofar as reporting citations.  We will remove this field as of October 7, 2011.  However, it may take up to a week to have Digital Measures make this change.

The number of publications appears to be correct. Does anything else need to be done?
Yes, please take a moment to review each publication entry individually to make sure that you are satisfied with the information and that no further elaboration (such as additional authors) is needed.

Courses

My syllabi only exist online. Why can't I simply enter the URL?
Because of the relatively ephemeral lives of websites, we encourage you to upload a pdf copy of your web page.

Advising

We were not able to import reliable Advising data this year, though this remains our goal for future years.

What information do I need to provide under "Advising"?
Each department has different requirements for this section (whether to list all individual student names for majors, minors, doctorate, masters, dissertation, etc.) Please follow the instructions of your department chair. To see what information is currently on file, select the "add/edit data" option.