Faculty Insight for Activity Reporting

By accurately reporting faculty achievements, faculty can easily generate editable reports to produce comprehensive CVs, annual evaluation CVs, and promotion & tenure CVs. Creating a habit of entering your activity annually, at a minimum, will keep all your productivity in one place, where you can easily access it for faculty reviews and scholarly connections.

Beginning with the 2025-2026 calendar year and continuing annually, the Kansas Board of Regents requires each campus to submit a faculty workload report, covering the two prior academic years. The annual report has two primary purposes:

• To illustrate the breadth and variety of faculty activities and how these activities contribute to students, the university’s mission, the state, and society at large.
• To establish a systemwide level of transparency and accountability for how faculty allocate their work time.

Faculty activity for calendar years 2025 and 2026 (January 2025 through December 2026) should be entered into KU Faculty Insight for Activity Reporting no later than February 12, 2027.

In the years following, we ask that all faculty update their activities by the final Friday of January, annually. Submitting all activities by this date not only gives the Office of Faculty Affairs enough time to extract faculty productivity for its report to KBOR, but also keeps your record up to date for annual reviews if you choose to use KU Faculty Insight to generate your annual evaluation CV.

KU will report faculty workload and activity to KBOR annually for the previous academic year. Individual faculty activity data is not reported; only aggregate data for the entire university.

To ensure your record is as accurate as possible, faculty should check and update Scholarship, Creative Works, Teaching & Mentoring, Service, and Awards and Honors in the Activities section of Faculty Insight. You may also update your Career information if you would like to have a more robust portfolio.

Some publications, awards, grants, patents, and clinical trials may already be pulled into your activity from publicly sourced information. If you have imported records, please check and edit them for accuracy. 

KU Faculty Insight for Activity Reporting also creates reports from your faculty activity data, specifically for Annual Reports and Promotion & Tenure. In the Reporting tab, you have the option to create these reports, which download as editable Microsoft Word documents, for you to use in your evaluation process without the need to create a new CV from scratch.

KU Faculty Insight also offers the ability to search for collaborative, funding, and honorific award opportunities. Located in the My Profile tab within KU Faculty Insight are four tabs that allow you to explore these opportunities: Related Terms and People, Suggested Funding, Suggested Awards, and Collaborations. Using your Research Keywords (located in the Edit Profile section), these respective tabs contain a list of related scholars doing work in related areas, thousands of open funding opportunities, honorific award recommendations, and a visual diagram of scholars you have collaborated with. Searches can be saved in your profile for easy reference at a later date.

Smart Import is a new AI tool that has been developed to help faculty quickly create activity records from existing content. Simply paste information from a CV, citation list, report, webpage, or other text source, and Smart Import will automatically generate structured activity records for review before import. This new AI-powered workflow reduces manual data entry, improves efficiency, and helps maintain consistent activity data across the institution. 

The Duplication feature allows faculty to duplicate a record instead of starting from the beginning when entering similar works into the the Activity Manager.

Units define their own guidelines for faculty productivity in their workload and evaluation policies. If you have questions about faculty activity definitions and were to place a certain activity within KU Faculty Insight for Activity Reporting, please refer to your unit's policies.

Please reach out to facultyaffairs@ku.edu if you have general questions about reporting. For technical questions about KU Faculty Insight for Activity Reporting, you may email AIRE-help@ku.edu. 

KU Faculty Insight also offers support through the Help tab on the Faculty Insight menu.

KU Faculty Insight activity data connects to Experts at KU — a public-facing online directory that helps people find University of Kansas faculty members and researchers based on their specific areas of knowledge and study. Experts at KU promotes your work to both scholarly and public audiences and helps communicators identify research projects to highlight as part of communications strategies. Faculty have the option not to share certain activities with Experts at KU through KU Faculty Insight for Activity Reporting by setting record visibility to "private".

In addition to Experts at KU, deans, associate/assistant deans, chairs, and academic program directors have access to faculty activity data that is imported through KU systems and publicly available sources (it does not include self-entered records). This data can be used to benchmark scholarly activity against disciplinary norms among peer groups, identify unit research strengths and areas for growth, and facilitate faculty recognition.