Faculty Activity Repository System
Welcome to the Faculty Activity Repository System Page
Log On to FAR
Access the system at www.far.uga.edu using your UGA MyID and password.
Need Assistance?
- Visit our Help page
- Visit our FAQs page
- Email UGA FAR Help
- Email CAES FAR Help
- Contact Marcie Simpson at 706-542-7786
Message from Dean Angle
The University has developed an online Faculty Activity Repository system. The provost has requested that all colleges have their faculty use this system. The department heads and I support this initiative of the University administration. This system will provide common faculty information across all schools and colleges; enable institutional, college, departmental, and individual reporting with built-in query tools; help UGA check and correct faculty information in UGA's central data systems; and provide faculty with an easy-to-use system for recording and tracking teaching, research, and service activities.
Latest Updates
- Faculty are loaded in the FAR system by "rank" department. This includes formally appointed adjuncts, recent retirees, and all emeritus faculty. In addition, faculty who have joint appointments appear in the ranks of both departments even when all eft is assigned to only one.
- Course Evaluations - summary and highlights narrative.
- Contract and Grants Information loaded from databases of the Office of Sponsored Programs.
- Center & Institute affiliations - allows faculty entry of data.
- UGA-specific Reports. Faculty Activity Report fir annual performance evaluation.
- Project Coordination - the ability to capture larger programming efforts that you coordinate.
- An area for text entry of a Narrative of Interests and Expertise is also available under General Information. This area has been pre-filled on a one-time basis from the OVPR's FRED database where available. Faculty should check, edit, and maintain an accurate description of their work in the FAR, which will be used to populate FRED in the future. This information will also be available for use on School/College/Department websites.
- Non-UGA Faculty Work Experience – There is a new section in UGA FAR titled “Post-Doctoral & Non-UGA Professional Experience” with two categories titled “Post-Doctoral Positions” and “Positions Held.” These categories allow you to enter professional experience as necessary. For example you might want to capture or previous current adjunct faculty appointments or previous appointments with other institutions. (Update 1/10)
Upcoming Deadlines
- All 2008 and 2009 data must be entered into UGA FAR before February 1, 2010.
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2010 Evaluations
CAES Department Heads will use the information from UGA Faculty Activity Reporting for 2010 evaluations. The Dean and Associate Deans will review this data online. Enter all data into UGA FAR that you would include in your CAES faculty activity report.
- Activity reports are due February 1, 2010
- How to Generate an Individual Activity Report
- How to Generate a Departmental Group Report
- UGA Faculty Activity Report Build Format
- UGA FAR Reference Manual
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Impact on GaCounts Usage
Faculty, except County based faculty, currently using UGA FAR will not be required to use GaCounts to enter regular programming activities. Another exception is faculty with a State Plan of Work in GaCounts. State Plans of Work will be reported against at the end of the year to provide the details for the Federal CSREES/AREERA Report. County faculty will continue to use GaCounts and will not use UGA FAR.