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NRC at UCB

Crib sheet for the NRC faculty questionnaire

Most important

• Enter all names under which you've published in item D1. CRITICAL for faculty who publish under their middle names, and for faculty whose CU HR name (on your payslip) differs from the name you publish under.
• Upload your vita -- Section I
• Do not spend time editing your publications, books etc. to fit better into the questionnaire slots. We put all publication info in slot 1 and that's OK. Entries that take 2 or 3 slots are also OK. 
• Add publications, books etc. to D3-5 only if they are not in your CV.

• It is https://www.nrc-assessment.com/NRC_Faculty/
• To use it, you must have the login/pw from the email from NRC.
• If you don't have the login/pw, follow the instructions at the bottom of this crib sheet.

If you want to make changes after you have clicked "submit" (Section J)

• Send email to the NRC help desk: NRCAssessment@Mathematica-mpr.com
• You must include the login and password you received in the invitation from NRC, in your email to the help desk.  (If you no longer have it, see "if you have lost . . ." at the bottom of this crib sheet.
• NRC should send you email saying that they have reopened your survey BUT we have heard that NRC may simply reopen your survey without replying to you. 

To upload a CV outside the program questionnaire

• Do not do this unless you've submitted the faculty Q. and were unable to load the CV in the questionnaire.
• You can send your CV to the NRC-Assessment@Mathematica-MPR.com e-mail address, if for some reason it isn't uploaded during the survey. Put "CV" somewhere in the subject line so NRC can recognize it. Make sure your full name and CU-Boulder are inside the CV.

Deadlines

• April 1: Final.
• Feb 22: If you want to be part of the pool from which raters are drawn for the ratings or anchoring study. See http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/aboutratingsq.htm for details. If you don’t care, you have until April 1.
• NRC, PBA, and your program will harass you until you and your fellow program faculty respond. NRC will report response rates by program but not for individuals.

Importance

• The NRC study happens once every decade or so and produces much-used ratings and rankings of PhD programs
• NRC will aggregate info on individual faculty to characterize programs
• UCB has provided NRC with info on you already – programs, committees, scholarly publications, external research, tech transfer. The answers we’ve provided will show in your questionnaire. But NRC will not use this info unless YOU respond to the questionnaire personally.

• Faculty questionnaire information we sent to NRC about an individual is available at http://pba.colorado.edu/sasweb/guidegr/NRC/fqifind.htm
• Click to the questionnaire from the email invitation or from here (the link in your email invite may be broken).  Paste in username and login you got in the email from NRC.  The link: https://www.nrc-assessment.com/NRC_Faculty/
• If you have lost your username/login - see end of this Crib sheet.
• At the bottom of the intro, click the box asking if you consent to participate.
• Optional: If you want to see all answers already loaded in for you, select “Review all answers” from the navigation links at the bottom of the page. You can do this at any time.
• Be sure to click “Save and continue” at the bottom of each page where you enter or change any answers.

Key items by section

• Consent: You must consent to participate at the bottom of the introduction page
• See all data we uploaded to NRC for you at http://pba.colorado.edu/sasweb/guidegr/NRC/fqifind.htm
• A: Program Identification
  • A1-3: Programs, committees. For eligibility. Loaded and reviewed by UCB already – leave this section alone!  Documentation: Search student committees and dissertation-section enrollments
  • A4-5: Research specialties. Review and augment. What’s loaded already came from your program. You can change anything already entered for you. NRC use: To characterize programs in a “college guidebook” publication.
• B: Prior Experience
  • B2: Prior employer, complete to help NRC ID publications if you’re new to UCB since 1995 or so.  Leave B3/B4 blank if you answered "student" to B2.
  • Others: for NRC research
• C: Educational Background – For NRC research
• D: Scholarly Activity
  • Essential to help NRC locate and credit your work
  • D1: List all names under which you’ve published or might be cited. Enter all variants – EVERY POSSIBLE permutation of words and punctuation you have or may have published under, ever. Consider how your name appears in other authors’ citations to your work. Critical for NRC especially if your name is different from your CU payslip name, has changed, or is common. NRC did not allow us to load names in – it’s all up to you.
  • D2: Zip codes listed IN your publications (see reprintgs) for you as author or corresponding author. The zip codes need not be in Boulder - if you moved here from Univ X with zip 43521 in 2003, and are listed in publications with zip 43521, list it. Boulder campus is 80309. NRC use: To associate all your publications and citations, and no one else’s, with you.
  • D3-5: Review and revise, scholarly books and publications. From your FRPA’s. Especially important for faculty in humanities, theater, and research areas not covered well by ISI, the Institute for Scientific Information. Critical for publications not in your CV.   Do not waste time editing your publications, books etc. to fit better into the questionnaire slots. We put all publication info in slot 1 and that's OK. Entries that take 2 or 3 slots are also OK. 
• E: Research Activity
  • Review; augment as appropriate. From OCG, Tech Transfer, and FRPA’s. NRC use: This is the only source of info on funded research activity by program.  Documentation of contract/grant counts: http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/SponsoredResearch.xls
• F: Doctoral Students
  • Don’t change the list of students – All PhD recipients summer ’01 through spring ’06 are slotted onto one and only one faculty questionnaire. Programs have reviewed these.  Documentation: http://pba.colorado.edu/sasweb/guidegr/NRC/faclistresourcesPUBLIC.htm
  • Placement info: What’s entered came from your program. Augment if you can (Google works wonders). NRC use: Characterize programs by success of placements.
• G: Program Quality
  • Used by NRC to determine the importance of various factors in program quality by field. E.g., books authored may be key for History, external funding for Physics.
• H: Demographic Information
  • For NRC research. Not submitted for you by UCB.
• I: Curriculum Vitae
  • Be sure to upload your CV in Word, RTF, or PDF format. Upload the entire CV, preferably up to date.   NRC use: To validate and credit your publications, citations, and honors.
• J: Submit Survey Page
  • J1 lets you say you’re willing to participate in the ratings or anchoring study
  • A box on the last page says "Ready to Submit Survey." DO THIS (when you’re finished for good) or your responses will not be used. Check “Review all Answers” before submitting.
  • If you submit then realize you need to make changes, see "If you want to change . . ." near the top of this crib sheet

To get help

• Check the notes for CU-Boulder faculty on questionnaire logistics and technical issues
• See one of the faculty in your program listed as an NRC contact. The list is at http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/contactlist.htm. Admin people in your program probably can't help, because they cannot see a questionnaire.
• Email NRC_UCB@colorado.edu - this will go to Lou and others in PBA. Or call 492-8631 and ask for NRC help. We have a test login - we can't see your survey, but we can see a survey.
• The NRC help desk, NRC-Assessment@mathematica-mpr.com. There's a link on the questionnaire. However, NRC is surveying 120,000 faculty and getting an answer could take days, even weeks.

If you have lost your login and pw

• If you lose, delete, or do not receive your login/password, go to the link just below and put in what you can.  If you can provide the exact email address we submitted for you (usually first.last@colorado.edu), you’ll get your login/pw right back in email.
• The link: https://www.nrc-assessment.com/NRC_Faculty/Lost/Lost.aspx
• If you need to know the email we submitted for you, ask PBA at NRC_UCB@colorado.edu or 2-8631.  If you send the wrong email to NRC you’ll get a message that says "Account information not found. Please try again.

Last revision 02/14/07