This document outlines the more significant changes that have been made to the Faculty-Staff
Profile Database (FSP) in Fall 2017 for FY 2018.
Virtually any data-entry element can be "tagged" as being relevant to one or more Emerging Areas or Signature Areas. Formerly this was handled
for one emerging area only (Sustainability) by adding checkboxes to a number of data entry screens. Tagging generalizes this concept and extends
it to all data entry elements. Items designated as Sustainability-related in past years now have tags attached.
Available tags are:
Mentoring data entry has changed significantly for Faculty and Professional Staff. The University would like to gather information about mentoring relationships
from both the mentor and the mentee. In these screens auto-complete lists that match as you type are used for selecting both UMaine faculty and professonial staff as
well as departments or non-departmental units.
In all screens a narrative data entry field has been added to supplement the former "Research Area" field, which has been relabeled in as "Research Area or Creative Activity Type/Title."
For other mentoring relationships, the Soft Money, Work Study and Work Merits fields have been removed.
All reports can be downloaded as single-file HTML documents or Excel (.xls) documents. Single-File HTML documents can be opened in any word processor and then saved in the word processor's
native document format. See
Download Reports for more information. In addition Publication, Grants and Presentations
have Export buttons on the data entry screens. These will be added to other screens as the academic year progresses.
Please note however that reports do not yet incorporate this year's changes. The target date to complete this functionality is 31 Jan 2018.