FRPA
The Faculty Report of Professional Activities (FRPA) primarily collects information on CU Boulder's faculty annual activities in the categories of Teaching, Scholarly Work, Creative Work and Service. Information on research and expertise, international activities and other profile information are collected here as a centralized effort to support campus and departmental needs including web presence for units, grant reporting, media requests, programmatic needs, and more. Faculty are asked to upload a current curriculum vitae (CV) each year. Academic units rely heavily on the information provided through the FRPA process.
Who needs to submit an FRPA?
All tenure-track faculty and faculty who specialize in teaching and clinical education are required to electronically submit their FRPA each year as part of the annual merit evaluation process.
Some units may require research, part-time and other faculty to submit the FRPA as part of an internal process. If you do not meet the criteria above, please check with your department chairs and/or directors to confirm if you need to complete the FRPA. All faculty are encouraged to complete the supplemental profile and research expertise section of the FRPA to build their CU Experts faculty profile.
When is the FRPA due?
FRPA reports cover the calendar year, January 1 to December 31, and are due February 1 of the following year. Note: For FRPA 2025, the deadline to submit your report to your primary unit via FRPA Online is February 1, 2026.
Faculty may change portions of their FRPA that appear in their CU Experts public profiles at any time, and may enter items for the current reporting cycle throughout the year.
How do I access the FRPA?
There are three ways to access FRPA Online to enter/report your annual activities:
Log in to MyCUinfo using your campus IdentiKey credentials. From the “CU Resources” or "Reporting & Compliance" tab, click the tile for “Faculty Reporting & DEPA.” Click the “Login to FRPA Online” button.
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FRPA Online can also be accessed directly at https://frpadb.colorado.edu/ords/f?p=frpa
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- FRPA Online can also be accessed with your FRPA-specific login credentials at https://frpadb.colorado.edu/ords/f?p=frpanfe
Staff needing to access an individual faculty member's report on their behalf to enter/report their annual activities, please use access method #3 listed above. You will need to first enter your own campus IdentiKey credentials when prompted on the CU Boulder Federated Identity Service page.
On the subsequent page, enter the faculty member's FRPA-specific login credentials. If the faculty member does not know their FRPA-specific login credentials, please contact the Faculty Data & Impact Team at the Office of Faculty Affairs by emailing ofafacultydata@colorado.edu
Unit administrators may access FRPAport, the FRPA reporting module at https://frpadb.colorado.edu/pls/frpa/frpaport.logon
Unsure how to access FRPAport? Please have them contact the Faculty Data & Impact Team at the Office of Faculty Affairs by emailing ofafacultydata@colorado.edu
Support Resources & FAQs
No, the data are saved to the database every time a “save” button is clicked.
Yes, FRPA Online may be accessed from any location that gives you access to the Internet including from outside the United States.
Many of the Scholarly Work activity codes and all of the Creative Work activity codes must first be entered in CUBE, and then imported into your FRPA. We encourage you to review the full list of FRPA activity codes as well as how these FRPA activity codes map to CUBE categories.
The FIS website offers a quick overview about CUBE, as well as quick start guides to help navigate the platform. When you're ready, you may log in directly on CUBE using your campus IdentiKey credentials at elements.colorado.edu
To edit, select the section of interest (e.g., Teaching) from the left grey menu. Records for the current report year will display. Click on the description of the record to edit. The individual record will open for editing.
Note: Reports may not be edited after April 30th of the following year. For example, a 2025 report may not be edited after April 30, 2026.
Use the link in the left grey menu that says "Finish Your FRPA." Select the "Complete & Release” button. There is a scrolling list of departments, schools, and colleges to select from. Select the units that you wish to release your FRPA to and click "Finish Complete & Release." This will direct a copy of your FRPA to your chair or director as well as to your dean. Should you make modifications to your FRPA after the initial submission, you will need to complete and re-release the updated report to your unit.
Departmental signatures are not necessary. The logon and password serve to protect the user from anyone tampering with their report. Therefore, they act as an electronic signature and should be safeguarded. Your online submission to your chair/director is your authorization that the form is complete.
For other questions regarding:
- Unit-specific FRPA submission deadlines, please contact your unit administrator or dean's office.
- FRPA codes, policy, campus deadlines, or CU Boulder Elements (CUBE) assistance, please contact the Faculty Data & Impact Team in the Office of Faculty Affairs at ofafacultydata@colorado.edu
- Accessing FRPA Online through MyCUInfo, please contact the CU Boulder OIT Service Center at 303-735-HELP or help@colorado.edu