FRPA Transition Project

Background

In 2025, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ launched the FRPA Transition Project as a joint initiative of the Office of Faculty Affairs (OFA) and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) to modernize the platform supporting the Faculty Report of Professional Activities (FRPA). The project is focused on identifying requirements for a sustainable, efficient, and user-friendly system that better supports faculty and administrative needs. Over spring and summer 2025, a campuswide task force of faculty and staff along with a working group of OFA and OIT staff, were convened to help define key system requirements. A steering committee and RFP evaluation team are now guiding vendor selection, and faculty input will remain central throughout the process to ensure the new technology aligns with the campus community’s needs.Ìý

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Tentative Timeline & Key Milestones

  • Spring 2025: Define project scope, establish project task force and working group
  • Summer 2025: Task force and working group define system requirements for the Request for Proposals (RFP) process
  • Fall 2025: Vendor demonstrations on campus, faculty and staff provide feedback
  • Spring 2026: Final vendor selection and contact negotiations
  • Summer-Fall 2026: Pilot implementation and testing
  • Spring 2027: Campus informational sessions and platform previews
  • Fall 2027: Campuswide rollout of the new FRPA platform

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The Faculty Report of Professional Activities (FRPA) facilitates the reporting of teaching, scholarly and creative work, research and professional expertise, service activities, international engagement and outreach work, and other significant contributions. This information is critical to the annual merit evaluation process for faculty, and also supports campus needs ranging from grant reporting and program reviews to media requests and online web profiles.Ìý

It is ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ only centralized process for gathering timely and consistent information directly from faculty about the full scope of their work.

We’re modernizing the Faculty Information System (FIS) to enhance efficiency and user experience, starting with the FRPA. This transition supports ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ priorities—fostering faculty success, advancing research and creative work, and aligning resources with our mission—while reducing administrative burdens and better capturing the full diversity of faculty contributions.

This initiative is led jointly by the Office of Faculty Affairs (OFA) and the Office of Information Technology (OIT). A campuswide task force of faculty and staff—including representatives from the Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA), Staff Council, schools and colleges, and research institutes—guides the effort. The task force is supported by a working group comprised of staff and faculty from OFA and OIT, and organized by a team of OIT project managers.

No, the 2025 FRPA process will continue as usual in FRPA Online. Faculty should expect no change in their reporting requirements for this cycle.

We welcome your input! Use the form to share your suggestions, questions, or ideas about the project.

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Project Leadership & Participants

Co-Executive Sponsors:

  • Michele Moses, Vice Chancellor & Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Education
  • Marin Stanek, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology

Task Force Members:

  • Michele Callagy, Executive Assistant to the Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
  • Yonca Ertimur, Chair of the Accounting Division and Professor, Leeds School of Business
  • Andrew Johnson, Head of Data and Scholarly Communication Services Section and Associate Professor, University Libraries
  • Victoria Johnson, Faculty Affairs Program Manager, Colorado Law School
  • Joseph Labrecque, Associate Teaching Professor, Advertising, Public Relations & Design and Representative, Academic Technologies & Services Committee, Boulder Faculty Assembly
  • Grace Maniscalco, Manager of Provost’s Office Operations and Co-Chair of Payroll, Benefits, Retirement, and Legislative Committee, Staff Council
  • Nathan Mertens, Assistant Professor, College of Music
  • Nathalie Moyen, Professor, Leeds School of Business
  • Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, Vice Chancellor for Academic Resource Management and Professor, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
  • Núria Silleras-Fernández, Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
  • Glenda Walden, Associate Teaching Professor, Sociology and Chair, Teaching Faculty Affairs Committee, Boulder Faculty Assembly
  • Philip White, Associate Professor, University Libraries and Representative, Academic Technologies & Services Committee, Boulder Faculty Assembly
  • Terri Wilson, Chair of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice and Associate Professor, School of Education
  • Andrew Young, Assistant Professor, Critical Media Practices and Member, Faculty Affairs Advisory Board

Working group members:Ìý

  • Orrie Gartner, Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology (OIT)
  • Jon Giltner, IT Strategist (OIT)
  • Marilyn Kerr, Principal Project Manager (OIT)
  • Ka Yong Kleiner, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Faculty Affairs (OFA)
  • Cholpon Minbaeva, Director of Faculty Data & Impact (OFA)
  • Dylan Nicklas, Sr. Business Analyst (OIT)
  • David Otterman, Data Engineer (OIT)
  • Alex Viggio, Director of Faculty Information Systems (OIT)Ìý