About Annual Profile

What is Annual Profile?

Annual Profile, the university's official system for annual faculty reviews, provides a single and convenient place for faculty members to archive their achievements. Data from several campus systems is brought into Annual Profile, and faculty manually input data about teaching, research, service and other activities that are reported as part of their annual review process. Faculty can also preview the the same generated annual review documents, that review committees will see. The Annual Profile system facilitates the annual review workflow process for peer review committees and department heads.

Additional Benefits for Faculty Members:
  • generate custom CVs and biosketches that can be shared in traditional formats or shared electronically,
  • use the "search" features to identify colleagues in the system who are working or publishing in areas of mutual interest.

What data is pulled from campus systems into Annual Profile?

Demographic data

  • Office address
  • Email address
  • Position titles (primary, secondary, and additional units)
  • Academic rank

Teaching data

  • Course data from UAccess Student from 2011-present
  • Student Course Evaluations (SCSs) for courses 2014-present
  • Graduate Advising data from GradPath

Sponsored Projects data

  • Grants data from 2011-present

Who Supports Annual Profile?

The Annual Profile system has several levels of support, including unit and university-level staff, university administrators, and the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.  We work with stakeholders from colleges across campus to guide the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of Annual Profile for university-wide use.

  • College and Department Coordinators provide faculty support for their units. Each college has at least one College Coordinator, and many colleges have departmental coordinators, who are responsible for coordinating the use of Annual Profile in accordance with the unit's annual review processes and timelines. 
    • Department Coordinators are the first point of contact for their unit's annual review processes, and the College Coordinators are the second point of contact.
  • The Annual Profile Support Team provides user and system support support and is responsible for facilitating enhancements of the Annual Profile system.
  • The Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs provides formative input from a faculty and college/department perspective, in order to cultivate institutional structures for faculty advancement across the career lifespan.

How did Annual Profile get started?

The decision to implement Annual Profile, formerly known as UA Vitae, was the result of a Provost-led collaboration by a steering committee of representatives and stakeholders from colleges across campus. The Faculty180 software, provided by Data180, that was branded as "UA Vitae" was selected by a group of faculty, administrators, and staff.

Annual Profile (UA Vitae) was piloted for the 2013 review cycle by faculty and staff in:

  • College of Agriculture & Life Sciences (CALS)
  • College of Fine Arts (CFA)
  • College of Medicine - Phoenix (COM-PHX)
  • Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health (CPH)
  • College of Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS)

The Annual Profile system replaced several home-grown reporting systems, used by faculty in CALS, Fine Arts, Public Health, and SBS. The pilot included migrating data from the previous reporting systems into Annual Profile. 

Based on learnings from the pilot colleges, Annual Profile (UA Vitae) was rolled out to include other colleges for the 2014 review cycle:

  • College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
  • College of Education
  • Eller College of Management
  • College of Engineering
  • College of Humanities
  • James E. Rogers College of Law
  • College of Optical Sciences
  • College of Pharmacy
  • College of Science
  • UA South
  • University Libraries

Currently, Annual Profile is in use across campus, and has become the cornerstone for other applications, including UA Profiles, which includes information about teaching, research, service, and other activities for UA Faculty.