Dear unit heads, 

The Office of the Provost is in the implementation stage of a software platform to manage faculty reviews starting in 2025-2026. This system will track faculty activity (in the usual scholarship, teaching, and service categories) and will manage the various review and promotion workflows.

The platform is called Symplectic Elements (or Elements for short), and OtP is working in partnership with Information Services, UO Libraries, Institutional Research, Human Resources, and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation during the current academic year, and consulting with an Academic Advisory Group of staff and associate deans from each school and college.

Current work is to establish data feeds from HR, from Banner records of teaching and from OVPRI’s external funding records as well as harvesting data from third party sites that index scholarship and grant activity. We are also building workflows to incorporate our review practices.

Main project aims are to streamline the review process and to give a consistent platform to highlight faculty efforts during the review processes.If you have questions or would like more information about Elements, please contact Hal Sadofsky (sadofsky@uoregon.edu) and Katy Krieger (kkrieger@uoregon.edu).

Sincerely, Hal Sadofsky 
Executive Vice Provost for Academic Administration