Purpose
Review research activity at a summary level for each unit in ALVSCE/CALES.
For faculty activity (e.g., MTDC & SCH per faculty member), visit the Faculty Activity Review dashboard.
For guidance on how to use these dashboards, contact Jon Chorover.
FTE: "Full Time Equivalency" with 1.0 equal to full-time. T/TE/C/CE Research FTE is tenure, tenure-eligible, continuing, continuing-eligible FTE in the unit. Research FTE includes all faculty (by title, regardless of tenure status) with research effort. This means any funding on accounts belonging to the Research branch in ALVSCE (typically org codes beginning with 24 such as 2422, 2415). The funding is according to the pay indicated in the labor ledger, excluding OPS and Supplemental Compensation, limited to the following Object Codes: 1110, 1120, 1140, 1141, 1145, 1146, 1148, 1149, 1150, 1160, 1164, 1165, 1166, 1170, 1180, 1184, 1185, 1190, 1290, 1320, 1330, 1340, 1345, 1350, 1360, 1365, 1370, 1371, 1372, 1375, 1490, 1151, 1152, 1158, 1161, 1162, 1182, 1192, 1210, 1310, 1381.
- Timespan: fiscal year
- Snapshot: last pay period end date of April each fiscal year
Proposals: The report is filtered to the total number of new proposals and resubmissions. Please note that this makes the number different from U of A Department Profiles that also include renewals and revisions). This report uses the fiscal year for the time span and the proposal submission date to assign the year. The dollar amount equals the total direct and indirect costs for a proposal. It is split according to the unit credit as entered by units in UAccess Research for PIs and co-PIs under the Key Personnel section.
- Timespan: fiscal year
Awards: Similar to Proposals, this report is filtered to the total of only new awards. The time span is the fiscal year and uses the award notice date to assign it. The dollar amount equals the total direct and indirect costs for a proposal. It is split according to the unit credit as entered by units in UAccess Research for PIs and co-PIs under the Key Personnel section.
- Timespan: fiscal year
Expenditures: All direct and indirect expenses on sponsored project accounts during each fiscal year.
- Timespan: fiscal year
MTDC: Modified Total Direct Cost includes direct expenses that are subject to Facilities & Administrative Costs (F&A) / Indirect Costs (IDC) on sponsored projects.
- Timespan: fiscal year
Revisions
2021.02.09 - Updated with 2020 data
2020.01.22 - Updates / fixes
2019.08.23 - Fixed the download button
2019.08.15 - Updated all measures to include 2019 data. FTE methodology was changed to exclude all OPS, Supp Comp, and Summer/Winter pay. FTE was also updated to be a point-in-time snapshot as of the last pay period end date of April each Fiscal Year. The prior methodology aggregated the expenses for the entire Fiscal Year and calculated based on that.
2019.03.15 - Revised Definitions & Information with definitions of all major terms in the dashboard (e.g., FTE, MTDC, Awards, Proposals, Expenditures).
2019.03.09 - Added Download Data button to allow units to get all data in a spreadsheet.
2019.03.06 - Fixed colors for SPLS.
2018.04.04 - Added FTE figures to all measures, displayed under the Fiscal Year labels.
Options
A dialog box will appear in the dashboard to confirm the Download; you may need to scroll back up to the dashboard to click Download.
After clicking on the Download PDF button, scroll back up to the dashboard for further instructions.