Faculty Activity Reports

All SEAS ladder and multi-year instructional faculty must submit an annual Faculty Activity Report (FAR).  The FAR process informs salary changes and allows chairs and SEAS Steering to make recommendations based on your accomplishments.  To be considered for a salary increase, you must submit an up-to-date FAR and CV.

Deadline to Submit FAR:  January 26, 2024

For assistance submitting your FAR, please email itsteam1@yale.edu and begin your subject line with “FAR”.  A dedicated IT support person will respond to your request.

For general questions about the FAR process, please email seas.facultyaffairs@yale.edu.

FAR Submission process through Workday

SEAS faculty will submit FAR forms through Workday.  Workday can be accessed by logging into https://www.myworkday.com/yale. Workday can also be accessed by visiting https://your.yale.edu/ and clicking on “Workday” in the top menu bar.

Please see the FAR Upload Instructions for additional guidance on uploading your FAR and CV.

If you need technical assistance, please email itsteam1@yale.edu and begin your subject line with “FAR”.

If you would like to confirm that your FAR has been successfully submitted:  On the Workday home page, click on Personal Information, under the View column click More, click on Worker Documents, and all submitted documents will display.

*Note: Please do not delete any documents from previous years’ FAR submissions. Also, please make sure that the proper Document Category is assigned for each document: Faculty Activity Report and Curriculum Vitae.

FAR content

In your FAR (typically not more than 500 words), please list or describe your activities and accomplishments for the calendar year 2023.  Your FAR, together with your curriculum vitae and additional information, including your appointment history, courses taught (with enrollments), certain University committees, leave history, and sponsored research (as applicable), which comes directly from university records will be available to your department chair and to the SEAS Dean’s Office to guide the annual review process.

SEAS will use the FAR form based on recommendations by the 2019 FAS Faculty Activity Committee. A copy of their report can be found here.

Detailed guidance (Ladder Faculty)

  • When completing the “noteworthy accomplishments” section, please make sure that you highlight those aspects of teaching, research, and service from calendar year 2023 that represent your major achievements of that year.
  • Publications that have a copyright date and/or publication date of 2023 should be included in your FAR. If a scholarly piece was made available electronically by a journal or a publisher in 2023 before it was scheduled to appear in print (e.g., “e-pub ahead of print”), you may list it on the 2023 FAR, however, a scholarly accomplishment should be included in only one year’s FAR.
  • Works that have not been published in their final form electronically or in print should be recognized in the year in which they are copyrighted and/or published.
  • You may also wish to describe activities that may not be reflected in our system-generated records or are not readily apparent in your curriculum vitae. This may include details on mentoring of colleagues (faculty and post-doctoral fellows); student advising and mentoring, both formal and informal; research and publications in process; guest lectures and conferences within and outside Yale; and service – both formal and informal – to the University, your profession, and your community.
  • We recognize that many faculty have continued to face circumstances that have affected their research and teaching. Please feel free to describe briefly particular challenges that you have faced as the result of the COVID-19 crisis.

Detailed guidance (Instructional Faculty)

  • When completing the “noteworthy accomplishments” section, please make sure that you highlight those aspects of teaching and service from calendar year 2023 that represent your major achievements of that year.  
  • You may also wish to describe activities that may not be reflected in our system-generated records or are not readily apparent in your curriculum vitae. This may include details on student advising; guest lectures and conferences within and outside Yale that are connected to your teaching role; and service – both formal and informal – to the University, your profession, and your community.
    • We recognize that many faculty have continued to face circumstances that have affected their research and teaching. Please feel free to describe briefly particular challenges that you have faced as the result of the COVID-19 crisis.

Making changes to your FAR

If you wish to make changes to your 2023 FAR or CV (prior to the deadline) you can delete the uploaded version and upload a revised one directly in Workday. Please refer to the FAR editing instructions to make any changes.

*Please do not delete or alter prior years’ documents.