Why Faculty Hate Activity Reporting (and How Faculty Atlas Can Help!)

Faculty activity reporting underpins accreditation, promotion and tenure, and institutional planning. But, every year it's like pulling teeth to collect faculty activities. Faculty don't object to documenting their work; they object to systems and methods that waste time, force repetition, and provide no value in return.
That's why we created Faculty Atlas-- to fix the most common problems with how campuses manage and organize their faculty activity reporting.
What Faculty Actually Hate, and Why Faculty Atlas is the Best Approach
Re-entering the same information every year
Publications, grants, and long-term service roles do not change annually, yet many campuses ask their faculty to re-submit this information again and again. Faculty Atlas automatically carries activity data forward so faculty only update what is new.
The annual reporting scramble
Once-a-year deadlines force faculty to reconstruct months of work under pressure. Faculty Atlas supports continuous activity reporting, turning annual reviews into summaries instead of fire drills.
Other systems that are designed for reporting, not faculty workflows
Many other activity reporting systems reflect administrative reporting structures rather than how faculty think about their work. Faculty Atlas uses clear, faculty-centered language and flexible activity types that match real academic workflows.
No immediate value for faculty
In too many systems and situations (eg, emailing a set of Word files to someone), faculty submit their data and never see it again. Faculty Atlas makes activity data immediately useful through CV generation, annual review summaries, and promotion and tenure documentation.
Rigid forms and clunky interfaces
Academic work does not fit neatly into boxes, and poor usability only adds frustration. Faculty Atlas is designed to be flexible, fast, and intuitive.
Faculty Atlas: A Better Way to Handle Faculty Activity Reporting
Most legacy faculty activity reporting software was built to satisfy accreditation requirements first, with faculty usability as an afterthought. Faculty Atlas takes a different approach by balancing institutional reporting needs with faculty-centered design.
By supporting continuous activity tracking, automatic data reuse, and transparent workflows, Faculty Atlas reduces faculty burden while improving data quality.
It also doesn't hurt that Faculty Atlas is one of the most affordable options on the market, making adoption easy and painless for institutions of all sizes and budgets.
Let's Discuss it Further!
Faculty Atlas delivers powerful reporting, clean data, ease-of-use for your faculty and staff.
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