Faculty and heads are often asked at several times during the year to prepare and submit essentially the same information for such purposes as annual activity reporting, promotion and tenure materials, institutional summary reports, etc. It was considered useful to think of such information, with proper safeguards relative to access, should be a part of an integrated database. The report of the committee is available here .
Guidance is welcomed.
This is a worthwhile effort, and the committee has done a good job with it. I especially like the plan to work with other UNC institutions and the approach of working our way into it. The age of accountability is here, and it should be, but anything that can be done to reduce the onerousness of the actual reporting of accomplishments should be done, so faculty can get on with the job.