Published: March 23, 2017

Jeff Cox

Jeff Cox

Time is one of the most precious commodities we have. The Office of Faculty Affairs, in an effort to promote the accomplishments of the faculty and look for ways to save time, has launched CU Boulder Elements (CUBE) and created a new version of the Faculty Report of Professional Activities (FRPA). 

CUBE, a data hub for faculty work, draws from a large number of data sources to provide accurate bibliographic data on much of the faculty’s published work; Faculty Affairs curated and uploaded additional items from the CVs of the faculty. Currently, there are 85,000 unique publications by CU faculty in CUBE. Faculty Affairs worked with arts units to create a template to enter creative works in CUBE to ensure they have the same data status as published items. Once faculty have claimed their work via CUBE, with a simple click of a button, faculty can send their publication data from CUBE to their FRPA, to CU Experts, our outward looking research profiles of the faculty, and to Altmetric, a new tool that measures the response to faculty work in traditional and social media channels.

Previously, faculty had to cut and paste from their vitae all their publications. Now they just claim them in CUBE and import them to the new FRPA.  The Provost has asked academic offices to find ways to save faculty time, and once everyone is familiar with this system, it will save significant amounts of effort across the more than 1800 individuals who fill out FRPAs. Departments and the faculty member can also use the exportable CUBE publication list for web publishing needs or for grant reporting. 

These new tools allow us to know more about the faculty’s scholarly and creative work and to publicize these important accomplishments. I want to thank the Faculty Information System (FIS) team and particularly the Director of FIS, Liz Tomich, for all their great work.

Entering FRPA activities for 2017
If you want to enter FRPA activities for 2017, you can start any time and continue throughout the year. To do so, once you log in to your FRPA, simply click the "Enter 2017 Activities" area in the dark gray header at the top of the FRPA application home page.

To access CUBE, go to elements.colorado.edu.

For more information, go to http://www.colorado.edu/fis/CUBE or contact pubsdata@colorado.edu.

Sincerely,

Jeff Cox,
Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs

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