{"id":42552,"date":"2023-05-25T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/provost\/?page_id=42552"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:45:40","slug":"ur-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/provost\/ur-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"UR Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/one-column.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-42552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"lead_in":"","display_title":"","subtitle":"Our comprehensive Faculty Information System","call_to_action":{"title":"Log into UR Faculty","url":"https:\/\/iam-api.interfolio.com\/users\/sso_redirect?tenant_id=16224","target":""},"hero_image_placement":"no_image","hero_media":"images","hero_pattern_option":"","hero_video":"","hero_image_landing":"","hero_image_landing_two":"","hero_image_landing_three":"","content_modules_above":[{"acf_fc_layout":"card_grid","anchor":"","css_class":"pt-0","title":"","description":"

The University has an organization-wide Faculty Information System (FIS), called UR Faculty<\/strong><\/a>. This tool streamlines workflows, improves data quality, and ensures consistency across our schools and units. This also benefits the University by improving operational efficiencies, and allowing for greater transparency and policy compliance.<\/p>\r\n

Explore this page to learn more about what this tool can do and how you can use it in your workflows.<\/p>\r\n

Log into UR Faculty<\/a><\/p>","background_color":"#FFFFFF","width":"width-medium","columns":"1","cards":[{"card_title":"

Coming Soon in UR Faculty<\/h2>\r\n\r\n
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Leave History<\/h3>\r\nTenure-eligible faculty will be able to log into UR Faculty to view their academic leave history (from July 1, 2019, to the present) as well as the start and end dates of their current leave window.\r\n

New Academic Leave Request Process<\/h3>\r\nWe will be launching a new Academic Leave Request workflow for faculty and their deans. This system will consolidate reviews and approvals to a single platform, eliminating the need for multiple spreadsheets across departments, schools, and the Provost\u2019s Office.","card_background_color":"#00205b","card_hover_color":"transparent","card_link":"","card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""}]}],"sidebar":"show__sidebar","sidebar_feed":"menu_select","menu":"202","page_links":null,"sub_menu":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion_new","anchor_id":"","classes":"","title":"

Guiding principles for the project<\/h2>","description":"","background":"decorative","background_color":"#ffffff","style":"row_blank","expand":"no","accordions":[{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Reducing complexity","icon":"","row_content":"We will improve data quality, reduce complexity, and eliminate manual processes through system retirements and automation.<\/em>\r\n\r\nThe FIS is the single, trusted, unified, authoritative source of faculty information. As a result of this program, we have retired the use of school-based FIS systems and the use of excel sheets for data tracking, and seamlessly integrated data exchanges between core systems.","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Creating policies and business practices","icon":"","row_content":"We will create and adapt faculty affairs business practices and faculty data governance policies to make an effective solution.<\/em>\r\n\r\nAs a result of this program, we know and understand there needed to be a change to certain policies and business practices. During the implementation, we examined our faculty affairs business practices and faculty data governance policies and initiated or modified them to maximize the effectiveness of the solution.","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Adopting common business practices","icon":"","row_content":"We will adopt common faculty affairs business practices across the institution.<\/em>\r\n\r\nAs a result of this program, we adopted common business practices across the institution wherever possible to support high data quality, efficient business processes, and a consistent FIS experience.","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Minimizing configuration variables","icon":"","row_content":"We will minimize configuration variances between academic units to the extent allowed by the governing documents.<\/em>\r\n\r\nLeveraging system driven fields and configuration supports consistency, security, and ease of maintenance. It reduces impact of support demand for system updates. Variance requests beyond those noted in the various faculty handbooks of the academic units will be sent to the Project Delivery Leadership group for review and approval.","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Leveraging Interfolio functionality","icon":"","row_content":"We will leverage Interfolio delivered functionality where possible.<\/em>\r\n\r\nWe configured the FIS to leverage Interfolio processes and capabilities. This supports increased optimization throughout the institution. The FIS provides security for data and empower access to needed data.","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Embracing community engagement and change","icon":"","row_content":"We will engage our community, embrace change, and make thoughtful, timely decisions.<\/em>\r\n\r\nImplementing an FIS program caused a great deal of change to current practices. While this can be challenging, we engaged our community with an aim to collaborate, embrace and champion this change in an effort to support advancing systems and process for the University. To that end, we supported timely decision making by Program Sponsors and Leadership.","accordion_anchor":""}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"card_grid","anchor":"function","css_class":"max-text-center","title":"

UR Faculty functionality and capabilities<\/h2>","description":"","background_color":"#00205b","width":"width-medium","columns":"2","cards":[{"card_title":"

[icon name=\"fa-solid fa-handshake\"]\r\nFaculty Search<\/h5>","card_text":"

Recruiting module<\/p>","card_background_color":"#FFFFFF","card_hover_color":"transparent","card_link":"","card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"

[icon name=\"fa-sharp fa-regular fa-file-chart-column\"]\r\nFaculty Appointments and Activities<\/h5>","card_text":"

Faculty appointments database and activity reporting tools<\/p>","card_background_color":"#FFFFFF","card_hover_color":"transparent","card_link":"","card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"

[icon name=\"fa-solid fa-award\"]\r\nReview, Promotion and Tenure<\/h5>","card_text":"

Workflow module<\/p>","card_background_color":"#FFFFFF","card_hover_color":"transparent","card_link":"","card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""},{"card_title":"

[icon name=\"fa-regular fa-folder-tree\"]\r\nData Search<\/h5>","card_text":"

Ongoing service to pull faculty activity from external data sources<\/p>","card_background_color":"#FFFFFF","card_hover_color":"transparent","card_link":"","card_hover_arrow":"","card_image":"","card_image_size":"","card_image_placement":"","card_image_hover_state":"hover_fade","card_image_link":""}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"interstitial","anchor_id":"","classes":"","layout":"layout_stacked","lead-in":"Annual Activity Reports","title":"

Faculty activity reports review process<\/h3>","content":"Effective January 2026, faculty members in participating schools will complete their annual activity reports through UR Faculty.","call_to_action":{"title":"Learn more about annual activity reports","url":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/provost\/ur-faculty\/faculty-annual-activity-reports\/","target":""},"bg_color":"#f4f4f4"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"","css_class":"","title":"

Who uses UR Faculty?<\/h2>","content":"There are two main groups of people who use the UR Faculty tool:\r\n