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All campus level evaluations require faculty CVs to be submitted in the recognized University CV format. The University formatted CV must be used by candidates undergoing a promotion and tenure review. Candidates may modify the CV to accommodate annotations regarding items contained within the CV (e.g., identifying student authors, indicating order of authorship) and removing irrelevant CV items (e.g., types of publications, types of activities).

 

To date, when faculty needed to create a CV in the University CV format, they would navigate to the University CV Template page on the Office of Faculty Affairs website, download a Microsoft Word template, and manually update the template with their content. Alternatively, faculty would use the University CV report in Faculty Success to generate a CV in the university format, drawing on their existing activities in the Faculty Success system. Many faculty members identified challenges using the Word version of the University CV template from the Office of Faculty Affairs website. In particular, users sent questions about formatting and where certain activities should appear. 

 

The Office of Faculty Affairs, in collaboration with an ad hoc committee of faculty and college administrative staff, identfied issue with original template and developed solutions. This effort in the Summer of 2024 led to the creation of a new University CV Template. The new format for the University CV was made available in October, 2024. This updated University CV Template will be the default CV format for promotion processes in the 2025-2026 academic year and going forward. In the 2024-2025 academic year, for any processes requiring a CV to be in the University format, either version (the updated and the traditional one)  is permitted.

 

For best results:

  • Prepare your CV in the University format using the preconfigured report available in Faculty Success (the 'University CV' report). Faculty Success can easily generate a CV in PDF or Word format. From the Word output, users can further refine and finalize their CV.
  • The University CV Template (PDF) is the full University CV template. It is useful for the review of the structure and format, but not as a template from which to populate with your CV content. Faculty are not advised to use the PDF, or a variant in a different format, to manually create their CV in the university format. Instead, they should generate their CV using Faculty Success.

An annotated copy of the University CV template is now available. It provides explanation and guidance for use of the template's various sections, and it includes sample citations for each section of the CV.

Creating Your CV in the University CV Format

The best way to prepare your CV in the University format is to use the preconfigured report available in Faculty Success. With much of your recent activity documented in Faculty Success already, as a result of your involvement in the annual reporting process, you are well on your way to getting your CV generated in the University format.

By using the University CV report in Faculty Success, your CV will automatically have activities included in the correct sections of the resulting CV. The report will also automatically remove any sections or subsections that are irrelevant to your CV. By choosing to generate the University CV report in the Microsoft Word (.doc) output format, you can refine the generated CV to ensure that it correctly reflects your achievements.

Follow these steps to easily generate your CV in the University CV format in Faculty Success.

  • Navigate to Reports in the top red bar in Faculty Success
  • Scroll in the list of available reports to the University CV entry and click on it. Note: do not use the Vita option found under the Create A New Report area. This is not configured in the UMD University CV format.
  • Identify the date range for the report. (If you are an administrator, use the Change Selection link in the Individuals to Include to select yourself. By default, the Reports tool generates the report for all faculty that you have access to in the system.)
  • Keep the default File Format of Microsoft Word (.doc)
  • Use Run Report to generate your CV.
  • The Word document will be in the Downloads folder used by your browser.
  • Open the Word document and check the generated contents. Make modifications to the included citations as needed to get the CV to the version needed for your purposes.
     

Sample CVs in the University CV Format

A sample CV in the University CV format has been created using a fake faculty member at the University of Maryland named Sample Faculty. This sample CV can be used as a reference for reviewing the use of the University CV template.