The University of Houston’s Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts invests in new technology to curate and report on faculty achievements, launches partnership with faculty information system Interfolio

HOUSTON, TX – June 18, 2019 – The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, part of the University of Houston, today announced a new partnership with Interfolio to provide robust reporting capabilities for its faculty activities, providing the college with unprecedented insight into faculty needs.  

Interfolio’s Faculty Activity Reporting module will provide a new system of record and will centralize faculty activity reporting into one digital hub, replacing the college’s previous tools. The need for specific technology to support the college’s faculty became apparent after the McGovern College of the Arts was founded in 2016, uniting the performing and visual arts at the University of Houston.

The new platform will provide faculty a streamlined experience of activity reporting, which can often be a burdensome process that distracts from teaching, research, and service. Interfolio was selected by McGovern College of the Arts due to the platform’s user-friendly interface, flexibility with file types and sizes, and brand recognition.

“Our faculty are not only the drivers of the intellectual life of the institution, but also key to the success of our students. Investing in faculty success and development enables us to capture all of the unique teaching and scholarly accomplishments of our college faculty, understand their needs as educators, and devote resources where they are needed most,” said Beckham Dossett, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the McGovern College of the Arts. “Historically, we had to rely on faculty reporting systems that were outdated and not designed to accommodate the creative work of performing and visual artists. We had to find a new way.”

“Today’s faculty members are shouldering complex responsibilities like never before. Institutions need every tool at their disposal to champion the faculty workforce and empower them with the time and technology to focus on academic and teaching passions,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio. “We’re delighted to help the University of Houston’s McGovern College of the Arts showcase their faculty accomplishments to the campus, greater Houston, and the broader arts community.”

About the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts

The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston is a dynamic home of creativity and collaboration in one of America’s most artistically vibrant and culturally diverse cities. Bringing together the performing and visual arts entities at the University of Houston, the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts has the ability to harness the power of the arts to ultimately impact our world. Our award-winning, internationally-distinguished faculty provides top-quality instruction to the talented, emerging student artists from more than thirty programs of study. The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts seeks to positively impact the community and to empower our students to use their talents to change the world. For more information, please visit http://www.uh.edu/kgmca/.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 250 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com.

Russian private business school partners with Interfolio to reduce administrative burden and improve the hiring experience for administrators, faculty, and applicants

WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 4, 2019 – The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, an award-winning private business school with respected faculty from across the world, today announced the adoption of Interfolio’s Faculty Search module to support a strategic initiative to recruit the best international faculty.

“Our school is actively adding new faculty from across the globe,” said Denis Konanchuk, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. “Partnering with Interfolio will provide a consistent approach to hiring faculty, which will then influence the development of new processes for the entire school. It will also significantly increase the amount of time we can spend on new initiatives, rather than on administrative work.”

Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO’s previous hiring process lacked a standardized process,  placing a significant administrative burden on under-resourced staff. Interfolio Faculty Search — built specifically for the nuances of faculty hiring and the shared governance model of higher education — will improve the hiring experience for administrators and faculty, as well as applicants.

Using Faculty Search, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO will have one digital system to post, collect, and organize applications and confidential materials and communicate with hiring committee members.

“We are pleased to add Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO to our existing partnerships with international business schools, including the London School of Business, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and IESE Business School,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio. “The use of Interfolio across disciplines and across the globe speaks to the versatility and configurability of our products, which are focused on improving not only the faculty experience but also the administrative experience—especially when reporting to accreditation organizations like the AACSB.”

About the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is one of the leading private business schools in Russia and the CIS. It was founded in 2006 by a group of partners including Russian and international companies as well as individuals. Our goal is to foster an open platform of academic exchange, attract world-class professors and researchers, develop Russian experts, explore and tackle issues at the overlap of academia and business practices, and generate new ideas. We strive to create relevant knowledge and expertise for those who rely on Russia and emerging markets. With over 150 professors, the School offers degree programs for MBA and Executive MBAs, as well as continuing education for a variety of audiences. For more information about SKOLKOVO, please visit https://school.skolkovo.ru/en/.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 250 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com.

Faculty Information System Interfolio and largest course evaluation solutions provider Explorance to provide a holistic view of faculty achievements

WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 29, 2019 – Interfolio, creator of the first-ever Faculty Information System, and Explorance, the leading Learning Journey Analytics (LJA) solution provider, announced today a new partnership to provide institutions with a holistic view of their faculty’s teaching, research, and service activity within a single interface.

“Explorance’s adaptive, automated course evaluation products are leading-edge and clearly best-in-class technologies—they set the standard for in-the-moment, purpose-built evaluations that benefit both students and faculty,” says Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio. “We’ve been consistently impressed with the team at Explorance and the commitment to faculty experience that they share, as we are both clearly aligned in supporting faculty and academic success by providing insightful, impactful, and actionable information to those that we serve.”

The integration will provide institutional leaders with course evaluation feedback within Interfolio’s platform for faculty information and scholarly data, thereby fundamentally changing how learning evaluations are leveraged by individual faculty and their institutions to determine impact. Instead of manually extracting and analyzing important course impact data against other faculty information, colleges and universities will save time by viewing embedded learning evaluation data directly from Interfolio’s faculty activity reporting product. Further, faculty and university leaders will be able to leverage critical student engagement and course evaluation metrics in upcoming promotion and tenure reviews, ensuring all relevant data is included in these crucial processes.

“Explorance’s Blue has been the University of Pennsylvania’s solution for course evaluations since 2009,” said Rob Nelson, Ph.D., Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. “The ability to bring those data into the collection of information we will provide through Interfolio’s faculty activity reporting technology is an important development in our partnership with both Explorance and Interfolio.”

The teams will demonstrate the integration at Explorance’s annual Blue Note global user conference in August 2019. For further information about the data that Interfolio’s clients can expect to view in their interface, check out Explorance’s fact-based decision making analytics page.

“Explorance is always seeking for ways to enhance the experience of EdTech clients,” says Samer Saab, CEO of Explorance. “Our collaboration with Interfolio, the leader in Faculty Information System solutions, will enhance the unified experience and offer the highest quality analytics for higher education institutions.”

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 300 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

About Explorance

Explorance, a Learning Journey Analytics provider, supports organizations in making the right decisions with fact-based feedback data. Through its offerings, Blue and Metrics that Matter, Explorance is at the heart of the learning organization’s continuous improvement strategies. By assessing needs, expectations, and competencies, organizations can analyze with the full picture in mind and monitor improvement over time.

Founded in 2003, Explorance is headquartered in Montreal with business units in Chicago, Amsterdam, and Melbourne. Explorance’s clients span a variety of learning organizations from various segments including academia, enterprise, consulting, and government across the globe. Explorance is proud to name 25% of QS 100 higher education institutions and 35% of Fortune 500 corporations as its clients. Since 2014, Explorance has been consecutively ranked as a top employer by the Great Places to Work Institute®.