Active
The guiding question for the Working Group. It shifts attention from isolated products toward pathways to impact.
Next step. Test the pathway language against the survey findings and the Elements notes, and revise any stage that forces a single linear story.
Active
Asks which practices — performances, exhibitions, public work, design research, applied creative activity, collaborative projects — become partial or invisible.
Next step. Collect concrete examples of work that members cannot enter, or can enter only by distorting it.
Active
Separates the platform from the institutional job it is asked to do: annual review, promotion and tenure, benchmarking, awards, planning, and public reporting.
Next step. Keep documenting use by purpose. Do not turn the landscape into a vendor scorecard.
Emerging
The same record is often asked to serve faculty evaluation, peer review, and arguments to central administration. Those uses may need different evidence.
Next step. Ask members which evidence they trust for each use, and where a single form is being stretched across all three.
Emerging
Evidence may be documentary, relational, narrative, or quantitative. The question is what a community, a chair, or a review committee can actually interpret.
Next step. Draft an evidence inventory that includes documentation, testimony, adoption, and community outcomes without ranking them.
Emerging
Interdisciplinary and multi-partner projects create stress in systems built around a single faculty record and a single disciplinary home.
Next step. Describe one collaborative project in terms of participants, milestones, and shared evidence rather than divided publication credit.
Open question
An open question raised by the Elements notes and by respondents who want better ways to use the systems they already have.
Next step. Compare a short list of milestones with fields participating institutions already collect. Record what fits, what distorts, and what is absent.
Emerging
Focuses on practice and configuration: guidance, examples, and local workarounds that change what a system makes visible.
Next step. Gather member examples of local guidance that improved representation without a new platform.
Emerging
Inconsistent entry, disciplinary difference, and flattened categories can make totals look more solid than the underlying records.
Next step. Document cases where aggregation was abandoned or distrusted, and why.
Emerging
Asks how a CV, a narrative, supplemental evidence, and an activity record can remain distinct while still informing one another.
Next step. Use the Elements case as a worked example of a hybrid record, and note what each part is allowed to claim.