“The American Philosophical Association has recently been focused on expanding and improving our member services. One of the ways we aim to do so is to provide support services for members on the job market as well as departments and hiring committees, and Interfolio has been a great partner in this effort. By providing a free year of Dossier service to APA members seeking positions and a free year of ByCommittee service to members of hiring committees, Interfolio has enabled us to increase the value of APA membership. It makes a challenging job market a bit easier for our members and lightens the load on hiring committees as well, and we've received lots of great feedback from our members. Working with the Interfolio staff has been a pleasure—they are always responsive and helpful. We're very pleased to be able to continue our partnership going forward.”
ByCommittee
Empower committees to make better decisions, more efficiently.
Using our comprehensive tool for collaborative review and evaluation, your faculty will select the best new colleagues while more easily balancing the demands of teaching, writing, and research. Additionally, ByCommittee helps committees adhere to institutional best practices and align with legal requirements, while also maintaining committee autonomy. Institutional licensees can also include Single Sign-On option for even more ease of use.
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Faculty & Staff Search
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Here's why Rutgers uses ByCommittee
With Interfolio, all the application materials are digital and our search committee can review them in their office or even at home, at any time. In the past, they had to make time to visit my office and read paper files. The new process is a much better fit for our faculty.
— Quionne Matchett, Senior Admin Assistant, Rutgers University
Faculty & Staff Search
We understand that bringing new talent to your institution is a high-priority activity. But balancing cumbersome committee processes with the teaching and research requirements of committee members often negatively affects efficiency and legal compliance, and ultimately hurts decision-making quality. Moving to an online application and review process, designed from the start with the needs of the committee in mind, will bring about flexibility, transparency, and better decisions.
Features
- Collect only the application materials you want, tailored to the needs of your positions
- Take comfort in knowing all materials are safely and securely managed by Interfolio
- Review applications on your own timeline, from anywhere
- Each committee can customize evaluation criteria, workflow, and committee structure to suit their needs
- Adhere to EEO reporting policies, and set guidelines for compliant hiring practices
- Provide HR and senior administrative leaders with insight into each committee's selection process, while still preserving committee autonomy
- Communicate effortlessly with applicants at any stage of the search
- Reduce paperwork and support institutional sustainability initiatives
- Work in tandem or integrate directly with existing HR systems and processes
Fellowships, Awards, & Grants
Whether a small departmental grant or a large award presented by an international organization, we know you want to reward the best students, teachers, writers, and researchers who apply. Often, this process includes creating and tracking multiple application forms, managing partial applications and external letters of recommendation, and other organizational nightmares. With our online system, you can create and manage custom application forms, collect and solicit application materials, and review and reward candidates all in one place.
Features
- Create custom application forms that meet the unique needs of your fellowship, award, or grant application process
- Collect the dossier materials required to supplement the application, or simply rely on custom forms
- Present applicants with clear guidelines for submission of materials
- Improve communication with the applicants at each stage of review
- Solicit external confidential letters of recommendation that are visible only to your committee members
- Support consistent collaborative review and evaluation practices
Faculty Reporting
Faculty and staff are typically required to report annually on their scholarly activities, for multiple administrative uses (accreditation, evaluation, marketing, and so on). This data, often both qualitative and quantitative in nature, is infinitely useful to administrators yet commonly considered overly complex and time-consuming by those doing the reporting. Change that perception and get the data you require through the configuration and use of our online reporting service.
Features
- Create a custom reporting form by selecting from our list of pre-determined questions for quantitative data collection (and add your own)
- Include open-ended questions in your custom forms where quantitative data doesn't provide enough insight into faculty and staff activities
- Allow faculty and staff to quickly complete the reporting process by selecting items they've already stored in their Interfolio Dossier & Portfolio to answer the questions you're asking
- Produce individual and aggregate reports of both quantitative and qualitative data provided by your faculty and staff
- Use our reporting engine to "ask questions" of your data—instead of simply looking at the number of articles published or amount of grant money awarded, find out who in your organization is the most relevant match for "emerging economies", "modern poetry", "quantum mechanics", or any other subject or keyword you wish to use.
Promotion & Tenure
Promoting your best teachers and researchers is critical to institutional success, but we recognize this process is often cumbersome (not to mention stressful). Paper dossiers fly in the face of sustainability initiatives, and often do not adequately present the best work of your faculty. Move the process online into our collaborative review system to provide expert guidance in the submission process, to securely manage the storage of materials, and to increase the efficiency and compliance of your committees.
Features
- Collect the dossier materials and additional information you need to review, at every step of the process
- Present candidates with clear guidelines for submission of materials
- Define the steps in the review process that meet the needs of your institution
- Review and comment on materials online, anytime
- Improve collaboration and communication at each stage of review—both internally and with the candidate
- Enable committees to request external confidential letters of recommendation for each candidate
- Support consistent and compliant promotion and tenure practices
- Reduce paperwork and support institutional sustainability initiatives
From Real Users
“We chose Interfolio ByCommittee to help us broaden our pool of potential faculty candidates by giving us more time to focus on quality and diversity without the burden of manually collecting materials.”
“The complete Interfolio platform (Dossier & Portfolio, Letter Writer and ByCommittee) brings together a first-class letter writer and applicant experience with the dynamics of search committees’ institutional objectives. The combination not only extends value to the search committee and the institution, but also better serves the higher education market and all involved.”