Faculty performance review reporting

Effective spring 2024, all University System of Georgia (USG) institutions are required to begin reporting and storing faculty performance review scores and results (including annual evaluations, promotion, and post-tenure review) in OneUSG Connect. The annual evaluations for calendar year 2023 performance, conducted in spring 2024, will be the first faculty performance reviews with a standardized reporting process. A cross-functional working group, including the Office of Faculty Affairs (OFA), University Human Resources, and the OneSource team, is preparing for implementation. Unit leaders will receive a customized Smartsheet link for entering their faculty members’ scores and results, which OFA will then batch upload to OneUSG Connect.

This new process will allow units to maintain standardized records of individual faculty performance reviews, including year-over-year scores by category (teaching, research, service, extension, administration, etc.) along with their effort allocations in each category. This process will provide a yearly checkpoint to ensure that effort is allocated appropriately and to make corrections if not. In addition, review scores over time will be readily available for reference at the time of promotion and periodic or corrective post-tenure reviews. The group is also working to ensure faculty have self-service access to their data.

This reporting process will not change the substantive criteria on which faculty are evaluated or the evaluation process or forms themselves. All units updated their annual evaluation documents during fall 2022, pursuant to USG and UGA policy revisions. This OneUSG Connect reporting process simply creates a technology solution to the USG reporting requirements that were included with those policy revisions and a centralized repository for faculty performance review data.

Additional information is available on the OneSource website and more details will follow in the coming months. Our goal is to make this process easy, useful, and transparent.