Personnel Activity Report Categories

1. Instruction:
Teaching and training activities, and direct administration of these activities at the institution. Department Research is also included and is all research and development activities which are not separately budgeted and accounted for as organized research.

2. Research:
Includes organized research which is all research and development activities that are separately budgeted and accounted for, except for Agricultural Experiment Station research. These activities can be sponsored by federal or non-federal agencies or organizations, as well as those separately budgeted by the institution by an internal allocation of the institutional funds.  

3. Public Service:
Public Service related programs and projects financed by Federal and non-federal agencies which do not include instruction or organized research, and excludes cooperative extension services.  

4. Other Sponsored Activities:
Public Service activities, except cooperative extension, that are funded by Federal and Non-Federal agencies.

5. Agricultural Experiment Station:
All research activities separately budgeted and Accounted for which are administered by the Agricultural Experiment Station. All Agricultural Experiment Station research activities are included whether funded from university, Hatch, or any other federal or non-federal funds. 

6. Cooperative Extension Service:
All extension service activities administered by the Cooperative Extension Service Division of the IANR. 

7.Patient Care Services (excluding private practice):
Effort expended a) in treating patients as an attending physician, b) in providing personal identifiable medical services to patients, or c) teaching or supervising hospital staff where such duties are not reported as instruction. 

8. Administration:
Includes all administrative effort. Student administration involving advising and counseling students in academic career pursuits, and providing student affairs and service activities; Departmental administration where administrative and supporting activities that benefit the common or joint departmental objectives of an academic department; Sponsored Project administration in which a separate department 's effort to develop and administer sponsored projects; College/School Administration including supervisory, managerial, or administrative duties related to the operations in the dean 's office. University committee efforts must be limited to instruction release time granted; and General administration including university-wide general executive and administrative activities or university-wide committee efforts.  

9.Other Institutional Activities:
Public/community service activities and extension services, which are funded by institutional funds such as State Museum, University Television, Conservation and Survey, plus auxiliary operations of the institution such as resident halls, unions, libraries, or athletics.