Faculty Success Updates October 2025

One of the key values of the Faculty Success system at the University of Maryland is Enter Once; Use Many Times. To that end, the system looks to integrate with other sources of faculty information, bringing in data that already exists elsewhere for faculty and where possible, sharing information in Faculty Success with other systems.

Data related to academic appointments, teaching, course experiences, sponsored research, patents, inventions, graduate committees, faculty mentorship, endowed and named positions, campus-level service and continuing education are all brought into Faculty Success from other information systems at the University of Maryland. New information regarding faculty honors and awards, clinical trials involvement and publications are brought in from the university's subscription with Academic Analytics. 

Data also flows out of Faculty Success in a few ways. Faculty can mark uploaded publications as Author-Accepted Manuscripts for the DRUM system. These will then be automatically imported into DRUM. Faculty can activate the Data Share feature in Faculty Success to have any publications with DOIs identified automatically added to their ORCiD profile.

The full list of integrations with the Faculty Success system can be found at https://faculty.umd.edu/activity/integrations. This table identifies the activity screens involved in the data import/export, the related system or organization  involved, the data coverage timeframe and the frequency of the data updates.

A Few Nuances of the Integration Data

Managing the Imported Data - Some is Read-only, Some Can Be Modified

Some of the integrated data is a mirror copy of the data in the source system - e.g., Elevate/Workday, SIS, Course Experiences, or Kuali Research. This data is read-only in Faculty Success. Any corrections that are needed are made in the source system; they cannot be made by faculty in Faculty Success.

Other data from outside sources can be modified in Faculty Success by the faculty member. This includes 

• Faculty participation in thesis and dissertation committees from the Graduate School
• Faculty mentorship from the Office of Faculty Affairs
• Patents and Inventions from UM Ventures
• Teaching Innovation grant information from TLTC
• Continuing Education from both TLTC and ADVANCE
• University Service from both the University Senate and the Office of Faculty Affairs
• Endowed and Named Positions from University Relations
• Honors and Awards, Clinical Trials and Publications from Academic Analytics

Data is brought in from all of these different sources for a faculty member, who can then update and enhance that information to best represent the activity. 

Scheduled Teaching Connected to Student Feedback on Course Experiences

The teaching data represented in the Scheduled Teaching activity screen is tightly correlated with the data on course experiences. Course section variations, such as grouped courses, cross-listed courses and shared courses have the same treatment in the Schedule Teaching data and the Student Feedback on Course Experiences data. 

Student Feedback on Course Experiences data is also split between two different activity screens since the format to this data changed starting with the Spring 2022 term. Details on the historic survey items can be found at the Course Experiences Help Center.

New this year is the support for documenting courses that were taught at another institution, using the Scheduled Teaching at Other Institutions activity screen.

There are a number of nuances associated with the ORA-managed sponsored research data that will be covered in next month's newsletter.