Central Michigan University

CMU uses an Online Faculty Information System (OFIS) to collect information regarding scholarly activity, facilitate the research efforts of our faculty and prepare for accreditation. We hope departments and colleges will take advantage of this resource and incorporate the OFIS material and links into their web sites.

Advantages

• The Online Faculty Information System provides CMU with an array of reports generated to serve many administrative and personal purposes.
• Most users will quickly discover the value of a system that reduces time spent creating vita, grant proposals, annual reports, and other records of your scholarly accomplishments.
• This tool has the ability to produce individual faculty-level, department-level, college-level, or institution-level reports in a matter of seconds, based entirely on the user’s preferences. You will only need to input your data once rather than reformatting and submitting your data when requested.  It is important to update your data occasionally.
• The procedure for creating reports is simple: log on, enter data, and generate reports.
• Custom reports can be developed in the system. You will notice that reports have already been created that are specific to CMU. In addition, reports can designate a specific time period (e.g., the last five years).

If your materials are in electronic form, you may copy and paste from your file directly into the OFIS. You need not complete the steps in sequential order or in one session. However, it is important that you understand how the OFIS works so that you do not lose the information you have entered. You should view the Tutorials to familiarize yourself with the system. The Handbook specifies the information that can be entered into each section of the OFIS. We assure you that your information will be secure; click here to learn more about the security of the system.

The information that is maintained through the OFIS includes the following sections:

General Information

• Personal and Contact Information
• Administrative Data - Permanent Data | Yearly Data
• Academic, Government, Military and Professional Positions
• Administrative Assignments
• Awards and Honors
• Consulting
• Education
• External Connections and Partnerships
• Faculty Development Activities Attended
• Licensures and Certifications
• Media Contributions
• Professional Memberships
• Workload Information

Teaching

• Academic Advising
• Directed Student Learning (e.g., theses, dissertations)
• Non-Credit Instruction Taught
• Scheduled Teaching (this data will be pulled from SAP)

Scholarly and Creative Activity

• Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits
• Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research
• Intellectual Contributions
• Intellectual Property (e.g., copyrights, patents)
• Presentations
• Research Currently in Progress

Service

• Department
• College
• University
• Professional
• Public