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Collecting from UCB programs

Subfields (or fields) for the program -
      these instructions are the same as those in the Excel

What you should do

• Read this intro tab including "why this is important" below
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• Use the empty columns on the List tab to indicate NRC subfields for faculty's research areas.
• Return the Excel by email by 1/29 to NRC_UCB@colorado.edu
• OR, decide to do nothing. See below for what will happen.

Why this is important

• What NRC publishes will be a critical resource for prospective students and others learning about programs. The only place NRC is getting subfields for programs is via the faculty questionnaire.
• Recording subfields here and returning the Excel will
  • Save your faculty time
  • Result in a more consistent, tidier list of subfields in the NRC publication

What's on the List tab

• Rows on the List tab are
• The faculty listed as New or Core on your program's faculty list
• Except, each person is in only one Excel - for the program matching the tenure dept and/or highest modified allocation
• FYI, submitted faculty lists are all shown in a posted Excel:
  http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/ShowFacLists.xls
• Columns on the List tab show
• Faculty name
• The primary NRC field for your program. FYI, these are all listed at
  https://pba.colorado.edu/scripts/broker.exe?_program=nrclib.fields_show_prim.sas&_service=default
• Slots for you to record up to three NRC subfield or field names which characterize that person's -- and your program's -- research areas.
• Entries in the slots are limited to NRC taxonomy entries. These are shown in the utility tab of this file.
• Employee ID and the code for your program, for our use in processing what you send back.

What happens then

• On the faculty questionnaire (Q)
• What you list will be "pre-populated" by NRC on faculty questionnaires in items A4 and (if you use more than one slot) A5
• Faculty may delete, change, or let stand anything that's pre-populated.
• Faculty can fill in any slot that is not pre-populated. If you don't return the Excel, your faculty will see all empty slots, which they can fill in as they desire.
• If an individual does not respond to the faculty Q. at all, NRC will NOT use any pre-populated data for that person.
• FYI, about the faculty Q: http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/aboutfacq.htm
• Later -- In what NRC publishes about programs for prospective students and others
• NRC will summarize the answers to A4 (and A5?) to characterize research areas of the program. We don't know how they'll summarize. It's possible if faculty in your program list 20 different subfields on A4 and A5, NRC will list them all.

Examples

• UCB Psychology has 5+ subparts at the graduate level (social, clinical . . .). Psychology should find entries on the pulldown close to the subparts, and select those for faculty on the List tab. Some appropriate entries are listed by NRC as subfields of the NRC primary field of psychology. Others are subfields of the NRC primary field of neuroscience or genetics, or the entire NRC field of neuroscience.
• Some faculty may have more than one; some may have none; anything is OK.
• UCB Chemistry and biochemistry should do similarly, using the NRC subfield "Biochemistry" and other NRC subfields.

Notes on picking and entering subfields

• Once you've picked subfields from the dropdown for a few faculty, it will be faster to copy those entries to other rows, than to keep using the (very long) dropdown.
• Some subfields appear more than once in the dropdown list. It DOES matter which one you pick. Pick the one that nests inside the primary field or thereabouts. Example: biogeochemistry -- Geology would pick #279. Programs in other fields will pick other entries.
• Do not pick entries in the dropdown in all caps - these are section headings, not subfields
• You CAN pick subfields outside the primary field for your program.
• You CAN pick a "field" rather than a subfield. In the dropdown, fields are less indented.
• The primary fields of some UCB programs have no subfields (e.g., comp lit). Here you'll need to pick a subfield under another field (e.g., English lit), or an entire alternative field (e.g., French and Francophone . . .).

PBA: L:/ir/nrc/q_faculty/ToProgs/FacSubfieldsXXXX, A4Programs01.sas  

Last revision 07/19/10