Faculty and Librarian Success Portal
The Faculty and Librarian Success Portal (FLSP) is a robust system designed to allow UMass Amherst faculty and librarians to efficiently track their research, teaching, and service efforts. Once entered in the portal, this organized professional information can be deployed for multiple purposes, including generation of custom CVs, bio sketches, and public-facing web pages, to better characterize research, teaching, and service activities, and facilitate the Annual Faculty Review (AFR) or Annual Librarian Review (ALR).
2026 Annual Librarian Review
During the 2026 Annual Librarian Review (ALR) process, UMass Amherst librarians will be using the new Faculty and Librarian Success Portal (FLSP) and the new Faculty and Librarian Workflow System (FLWS). To aid in this transition, Academic HR and the Office of the Provost will be providing additional support. We encourage everyone to take advantage of these opportunities as some are only offered for a short time.
- Begin to enter your data yourself in the Faculty and Librarian Success Portal (FLSP). To help you through this new process, you can find a Librarians Data Entry Job Aid on the Training Video and Guides page under the section Guides: General Navigation.
- Submit your CV to be uploaded by our Graduate Student Fellows through the data import process. Please fill out our online form to indicate your interest in this option. This form as well as additional contact information can be found on our Get Support page. Please note: Fellows are only available through May 14, 2026 so you are encouraged to begin this process as soon as possible.
- Join a weekly office hours and training session held Wednesdays between 3:00 and 4:00 pm beginning April 22, 2026. No reservation is needed to join the Teams events.
Questions or need additional support? Email @email.
Updated User Interface
Spring 2026: The Faculty and Librarian Success Portal has a new user interface. You may move between the "classic" or "original" view by clicking the links in the alert bar under the top navigation menu.
- What is the Faculty Success Project?
- Project Status
- Project Team, Organization, and Contacts
- Telling Your Story in the New AFR
What is the Faculty Success Project?
The Faculty Success Project is a multi-year cross-campus modernization initiative. The project team were charged with launching a robust system which would allow UMass Amherst faculty and librarians to accurately track their research, teaching, and service efforts to allow for distribution across multiple digital channels and create efficiency for processes such as the Annual Faculty Review (AFR) and Annual Librarian Review (ALR).
Guiding Principles
The Faculty Success Team established the following guiding principles for this project:
- A single point of entry represents an ideal state for the faculty user interface
- Facilitation of faculty research, networking, CV development, scholarly and artistic activity, as well as annual faculty review
- Faculty to retain control over their public profiles
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting
- Wherever possible, reduce the administrative burden (of both staff and faculty) via processes and systems interface
- Customization to be kept at a minimum to reduce impact on future IT support
- The implementation process and communication is broad, open, and inclusive
- Solutions should be agile and responsive to future business needs and requirement
Project Status
We’re Live!
The Faculty and Librarian Success Portal launched in 2025, marking a major milestone in our commitment to improving usability and functionality for faculty. This go-live reflects the successful implementation of the Advisory Committee’s feedback, which shaped key areas such as navigation and end-user experience.
You can read the full go-live announcement here.
For those who want to revisit the journey, we invite you to review a full timeline of the project, access an information session PowerPoint or watch a public zoom presentation (Passcode: Q6fEsPj=) from April 14, 2025 which includes details on the AFR report configuration leading up to launch.
Project Team and Organization
See the full project team and organization.
Telling Your Story in the New AFR
The Annual Faculty Report (AFR) and Annual Librarian Report (ALR) is an opportunity for faculty and librarians to showcase their teaching, advising, research and creative activity, outreach, and service as appropriate to their appointment. It is a way to reflect on your work’s impact and meaning and to share that story with departmental and other colleagues during annual review, contract renewal, and promotion.
2024-2025 AFR Instructions
- All faculty members with an appointment at 50% FTE or greater were required to submit their 2024–25 AFR by November 15, 2025.
- To submit an AFR, complete the following steps:
- Check "Yes" to certify that your AFR is ready for review.
- Enter the date of submission.
- Click "Save". Clicking "Save" will submit your AFR which will be automatically loaded in APWS. Once the system completes the upload, you will receive an email confirmation with a link to view your submission in APWS.
- You may experience a delay of up to three business days before receiving the notice that your files are uploaded into APWS.