Resources for Academic Leaders and Chairs
This page provides critical resources and timeline updates for Academic Leaders (Chairs, Deans, Unit Heads, and Program Directors) who evaluate faculty during the annual review process.
📌 Note: The FAR system standardizes data collection, but policy remains localized. Please continue to check your campus-specific Faculty Affairs webpages for unique guidelines, deadlines, and merit review criteria.
Please use the following links to jump down to different sections of the webpage:
- FAR Impact on Faculty Evaluation Workflow and Timeline
- Resources to Guide Your Faculty in the FAR
- Future of FAR
- Training Resources and Library
- FAR Contacts for Support
For awareness, and to share with any faculty your department/unit/school, we also recommend that any academic leaders review the information available on the webpage for Individual Faculty Members including capabilities and constraints of the system, guidance on where to place certain professional activities, and FAQs.
FAR Impact on Faculty Evaluation Workflow and Timeline
Each campus establishes its own specific evaluation windows. We recommend contacting your campus Faculty Affairs office directly to confirm your upcoming review calendar.
What is Changing (and What is Staying the Same)
The traditional review workflow relies on faculty submitting self-evaluations to leaders, leaders evaluating the faculty, and departments/units/schools submitting those final reviews to merit committees or campus leadership.
- The Scope of FAR: The Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) initiative only impacts the faculty self-evaluation portion of the annual process.
- No Change to Leadership Workflow: FAR does not change how faculty submit their finalized reviews to you, the criteria you use to evaluate them, your specific department merit processes, or how you submit final scores to leadership.
What Evaluators Will Receive
Once faculty generate their self-evaluation report within the FAR system, they will download and submit it to your department, unit, or school using your current submission methods (e.g., email, box folder), along with any standard supporting documentation.
As an evaluator, the only change is the formatted report you will receive. Unless otherwise directed by your campus Faculty Affairs office, you can expect to receive a clean MS Word or PDF version of the standardized FAR report.
Preview the finalized output templates for your specific campus below:
Resources to Guide Your Faculty in FAR
Active advocacy from academic leaders is the single most important factor in a smooth system transition. To help you seamlessly message this change to your departments without adding to your workload, we have developed a Leadership Toolkit of copy-and-paste communication templates:
- 📂 Template 1: Pre-Launch Awareness Email/Meeting Agenda
- Use this to introduce the FAR system conceptually to your faculty early on.
- 📂 Template 2: Post-Launch Campus Notification
- Send this immediately following your campus’s formal system launch to prompt action.
- 📂 Template 3: Active Evaluation Period Instructions
- Send this during your review window to guide faculty through final generated submissions.
Directing Faculty to Training
Please actively encourage your faculty to explore the Resources for Individual Faculty webpage, which contains micro-demo videos, system documentation, and schedules for live synchronous training workshops. We have also listed the training schedule below for your reference, including academic-leader specific training.
If you or your faculty encounter technical issues, please route inquiries to gu360help@georgetown.edu or reference your campus-specific contacts below.
Future of FAR
While the system is currently limited to generating streamlined faculty self-evaluations, centralizing this activity data opens powerful future opportunities to save leadership time and better showcase institutional scholarship.
Future phases and capabilities of the FAR roadmap include:
- End-to-End Digital Evaluations: Moving the entire review process into GU360. This will allow for the digital collection and archiving of your leadership reviews, making it simple to track faculty growth year-over-year and effortlessly pull aggregate departmental merit data.
- Accreditation Data Harvesting: The ability to instantly pull department- or school-wide data regarding scholarly output, teaching metrics, and service hours required for complex accreditation reporting.
- Dossier & Promotion Generation: Expanding the system to generate full, verified CV profiles, making it vastly easier for faculty to submit formal dossiers for promotion and advancement.
Training Resources and Library
Below are the training resources and library available for FAR. If you have any remaining questions after reviewing, please contact the campus contacts or the general gu360help@georgetown.edu email address.
Asynchronous Options
- Written Guides to General Updates to GU360 Profile
- Video Tutorials for FAR: Step-by-step video tutorials (2 – 6 minutes each) on each portion of the FAR
- Written Step-by-Step Guide
- Recordings and presentations from Synchronous trainings (listed below)
Synchronous Options and Recordings
Below are the upcoming trainings and workshops for the launch of FAR for each campus. Please register for each training that you wish to attend. For general GU360 profile updates, please register for the GU360 Profile update synchronous trainings.
FAR Contacts for Support
For any general or technical questions related to the FAR system, please contact gu360help@georgetown.edu. For campus-specific support, please contact the following:
- Main Campus: Vice Provost for Faculty (viceprovostforfaculty@georgetown.edu)
- GUMC: Office of Faculty and Academic Affairs (ofaa@georgetown.edu)
- GU-Q: John Crist, Director of Faculty Affairs (jtc33@georgetown.edu)
- Law Center: Law Center Faculty Affairs (lawfacultyaffairs@georgetown.edu)