Imported Records in Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR)

RECORD TYPE FAR SECTION SOURCE HISTORY/ TIME FRAME IMPORT FREQUENCY FACULTY EDITABLE? COMMENTS
NAME Profile iO Current Semi-annually Yes If you edit your name, be sure to say "yes" to Preferred Name Locked.
HOME DEPARTMENT Profile iO Current Semi-annually No
CURRENT POSITIONS Profile iO Current Semi-annually No
CONTACT INFO Profile iO Current One-time Yes, except Rice email
DEGREES Profile Banner Comprehensive One-time Can add new records, but not edit existing If you find an error in your degree records, please email vpaa@rice.edu a request to correct it.
ADD'L CURR & PAST APPTS Profile N/A None listed by default, but faculty can add N/A Yes
RANK & PROMOTION HISTORY Profile Banner Comprehensive One-time Yes VPAA will manually update TTT promotions annually. Loaded records are for Rice history only, but you can add ranks attained at previous universities.
INTERESTS Profile FIS Whatever was entered in FIS One-time Yes Loaded.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT Profile FIS Whatever was entered in FIS One-time Yes Loaded.
RESEARCH STATEMENT Profile N/A No history N/A Yes
MAJOR ACCOMPLISH- MENTS Activities N/A No history prior to 2022 N/A Yes
SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVE WORKS - books, book chapters, journal articles, and proceedings publications Activities External journal databases Comprehensive Monthly Yes Interfolio searches monthly for books, book chapters, journal articles, and proceedings publications from CrossRef, PubMed, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar for all tenured and tenure-track faculty. These are held in a staging area pending verification by the faculty or their proxy. On your home page, scroll down below the My Tasks box to the Match Activities box to review and accept or delete the publications from these external sources.
SCHOLARSHIP & CREATIVE WORKS - presentations, artistic performances & productions Activities FIS 2019 to 2021 One-time Yes Loaded.
RESEARCH Activities Cayuse 2012 to present Weekly Yes, but edits to imported records may be overwritten by weekly uploads If a record seems incorrect, please contact SPARC. Can also add non-sponsored research funding received.
HONORS & AWARDS Activities FIS 2019 to 2021 One-time Yes Loaded.
TEACHING Activities Banner Fall 2016 to present Fall, Spring & Summer semesters on census freeze date No
TEACHING EVALUATIONS Activities Banner Fall 2016 to present Fall, Spring & Summer semesters after evaluations due date No
NON-CREDIT INSTRUCTION Activities Manually entered No history N/A Yes
ADVISING/ SUPERVISION/ MENTORSHIP Activities Banner (partial) 2019 to present Fall, Spring & Summer semesters on census freeze date Yes We will bring in very basic info for grad advisees from the student system, to the extent and as it is reported in Banner that you are their primary advisor. It is not expected that this info will be complete.
INSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEES Activities FIS and manually entered by VPAA 2019 to 2021 One-time Yes This is a defined list of certain standing university committees. Please update as necessary.
OTHER INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE Activities FIS 2019 to 2021 One-time Yes All other Rice service, including other committees, with tags to designate university, school, and department levels. Loaded.
EXTERNAL SERVICE Activities FIS 2019 to 2021 One-time Yes Loaded.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Activities N/A No history N/A Yes This section is likely more for some NTTs.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Activities N/A No history N/A Yes Optional
CONSULTING Activities FIS 2019 to 2021 One-time Yes