Faculty Colleagues:
As in previous years, we write to ask you to provide the information that summarizes your accomplishments on your annual reports. The information requested is not being gathered for evaluating the merit of individuals, nor is it intended to substitute for or be an alternative to departmental procedures for such merit evaluation.
Annual report information will be gathered electronically through HuskyDM, an efficient and effective online system for collecting faculty activity. HuskyDM will enable you to produce a summary of your activities for your departmental report, and will enable your department head and/or dean to produce a summary of the activities of faculty and staff across departments at the college and school level. This practice also eliminates the time-consuming manual consolidation of individual faculty reports by department heads and deans. To learn more about and access the system, you can visit the HuskyDM website where you will be able to enter your accomplishments for the reporting period July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015.
You are asked to provide detailed information under four major categories: Teaching, Scholarship, Scholarly Affiliation/Reputation, and Service/Outreach. You may submit a listing for each one of the specific items you produced or engaged in during the past year. For example, if you published two full-length articles in refereed journals, enter two complete citations under the Scholarship category. The items in each section of HuskyDM are intended to enable you to summarize all of the activities conducted in all academic units of the University. Accordingly, some of the fields will not apply to your work or area of research.
We encourage you to explore and update all screens in HuskyDM with a complete record of your prior activities at some time in the future. This data enables us to achieve the long-term goal of HuskyDM—to facilitate faculty activity reporting for all reports annually required of faculty, as well to respond to a wide range of questions asked of us from our constituents. If you want to enter data from all previous year's accomplishments to help us accomplish this goal in the future, HuskyDM is available at any time.
The deadline for entering your information on HuskyDM is June 30, 2015. Please keep in mind, however, that some department heads and deans may require different internal deadlines in order to prepare their departmental and school/college annual reports.
Should you have any questions regarding HuskyDM or the Annual Report process, please contact Dr. Thulasi Kumar, Assistant Vice Provost for Institutional Research and Effectiveness.
Thanks,
Mun Choi Sally Reis Amy Donahue
Provost Vice Provost Vice Provost
For more information, contact: Institutional Research and Effectiveness at thulasi.kumar@uconn.edu