Faculty Success Updates May 2025

A few changes have been implemented or will be available in the near future with the Faculty Success system. Details on these changes are outlined below. 

And remember: although the official reporting and approval process has completed, the system is always available for you to add new activities or update information. Keep your activity data up to date by adding and updating in Faculty Success as you go.

System Changes and Enhancements

University CV Output: 

• You can now exclude unwanted appointment records from the University CV output. Simply access the Appointments at UMD (Imported Data) activity screen, open the appointment record that should be excluded, navigate to the bottom of the record, and check  'Exclude from University CV.'
• Brief descriptions are now included for many of the activity types in the University CV (list of activities with both brief description fields for the University CV and the expanded description field that is included in other reports). This helps contextualize activities in the University CV while also supporting broader explanations in the Annual Activity Report or other similar reports.
• The total anticipated amount of funding for ORA-Managed awards is now included in the University CV, along with a statement of the faculty member's share as a percentage.  

Sponsored Research Managed by ORA:

• The total anticipated amount for ORA-Managed awards is now included in the data provided by ORA from Kuali Research. Award data (both for the ORA-Managed Awards and the Active ORA-Managed Awards activity screens) has been updated with the official value for the 2024 and 2025 records in Faculty Success. This field is no longer editable since it is sourced from Kuali Research, the system of record. If you need to have the total anticipated amount documented for older ORA-managed awards, please contact fs-help@umd.edu for assistance.
• Faculty can now update the status of their ORA-managed proposals in Faculty Success when they receive more information from the sponsoring organization about an update to a proposal's status. Updates on the status of a proposal are only provided to the investigators. ORA does not receive them, which can lead to outdated proposal status information in Kuali Research if you don’t report them. Status updates can be documented in Faculty Success by navigating to the proposal in the ORA-Managed Proposals activity area, modifying the Updated Proposal Status field, and saving the change. This status change will be shared with ORA and updated in Kuali Research.