Important Announcement
Beginning Friday, March 22, 2024, UFIS applications (MBM, UCV, FMS, FAR, BRR) will move behind the University firewall. They will only be accessible while connected to the University network or VPN. If you have questions or concerns, please submit a request through the UFIS Help Center.
For help with VPN installation, please reach out to your local IT support staff or your respective help desk: UIT Help Desk (801-581-4000, option 1) or University of Utah Health ITS Service Desk (801-587-6000).
Welcome to the FAR login page
Click “Support” in the top menu to see frequently asked questions, and more information about the faculty tools we support.
As always, your feedback is appreciated. Let us know what you think by submitting your feedback through the UFIS Help Center.
Annual Activity Report (FAR)
Faculty Profiles
What is FAR?
The term FAR has been used across the university to reference a suite of 5 primary web tools all aimed at collecting and reporting faculty activity data. Most commonly, a faculty member refers to the FAR as the annual activity reporting process, while others think of it as their web profile.
This confusion is mostly due to the different usage of these tools, as required by the Dean of each college (see usage by the college).
FAR is made up of these five tools:
- Annual Faculty Activity Report
- Faculty Profiles
- Find a Researcher
- FAR Aggregate and Individual Reporting (for college and department admins)
- FAR Self Service (a configuration tool for college and department admins)
A significant outcome of having a university-wide system like FAR is to have a master database where colleges and departments can aggregate activity data for use in:
- Annual performance evaluations and merit increases.
- Gathering data for college accreditation.
- A minimum faculty profile across all colleges and departments.
- A mechanism for pushing faculty profile data to college and department websites.
- A collaboration tool for finding other faculty members.
For Administrators
Individual FAR Reports
Individual Reports lets administrators view individual faculty FAR submissions by reporting year, download CVs, etc.
Aggregate FAR Reports
Aggregate Reports gives administrators the ability to extract activity data by college and department into an Excel file.
Aggregate FAR Reports
FAR Self Service
FAR Self Service allows administrators to set deadlines for your college, setup new administrators, choose activity categories, etc.