Service Activities

Service Activity Types

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Service Activity Guidance to help faculty categorize their service work according to their unit policies on professional responsibilities and promotion and tenure.  This guidance was informed by the Elements Academic Advisory group, academic leadership, University Senate, previous work on service at UO, out-of-the box types in the system, and UO faculty CVs. Download the service activity type reference guide listed below in word document format.

Committee Membership

  • University
  • School or college
  • Department or unit
  • Peer reviews of teaching
  • Academic
  • Research
  • External service to the field
  • Dissertation (other institution)
  • Standing reviewer (panel, ad hoc)

Community service

  • Research related
  • Partnership/liaison role
  • Professional partners
  • Community programs
  • Schools (K-12)
  • Discussant

Conference reviewing/refereeing

Consulting/Advisory

Event Administration

  • Coordination, participation

Grant application assessment 

Institutional Program Review

  • Accreditation-program director
  • Accreditation team

Interview

  • Podcast
  • Print
  • Radio
  • Television

Journal reviewing/refereeing

Mentorship (can also be in Teaching; refer to unit policy)

  • Undergraduates
  • Graduate students
  • Fellowship recipients
  • Colleagues

Non-research presentations

  • Public-facing presentations
    • Community groups
    • Libraries
    • Organizations and non-profits

Office Held

  • Board member
    • Professional organization, governmental board
  • Leadership
    • Professional organization, governmental board
  • Editorship
  • Associate Editorship
  • Editorial board member
  • Administrative role
  • Event administration or leadership 

Non-UO service

  • For service work done at other institutions that should be counted during a major review period; discuss with your unit head

Other

  • External letters of evaluation for tenure/promotion
  • Professional development
  • Continuing education
  • Licensure 

Reviewing Your Service Activities

January 2026: Faculty will be asked to review and revise their service activity. 

Service data sources (in progress):

  • Senate committee lists
  • School/college/unit data
  • CV transcription (CVs provided by units in 2024)

WATCH THE REVIEWING YOUR SERVICE ACTIVITY TUTORIAL VIDEO

On your Homepage, you may see Service activities that have been entered in your profile on your behalf. 

Screenshot of service activities in Elements

Click on a record to see more detail on the Service activity. You can reject records that may have been incorrectly attributed to you or edit the record if any information it contains needs to be corrected.

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Editing Your Service Activities

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To edit a Service Activity that was manually entered:

  • Click on the record you wish to edit.
  • Click on the three dots in the right-hand corner of the record you wish to edit and select “View Details.”
  • Then click on the pencil symbol in the top right corner to edit. 

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Adding Your Service Activities

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To add a Service Activity in Elements, determine if you want to use the AI assist tool or manual entry.