WASHINGTON, D.C., August 16, 2017 — Interfolio, leading provider of faculty-focused higher education technology, has re-launched its market-leading Dossier product as a subscription model with enhanced capabilities to better serve applicants on the academic job market. This release signals a pivotal addition to the Interfolio faculty information suite by elevating the faculty-owned Dossier to be a central component of Interfolio’s wider product offering: a sophisticated workflow and data management platform focused on powering faculty hiring, review, promotion, tenure, and appointments, as well as faculty activity reporting and research management.

Dossier, Interfolio’s initial product offering, was launched in 1999 to help scholarly job applicants aggregate and deliver materials—including confidential letters—to academic opportunities. Over time, Dossier grew to be the largest provider of digital application support in the market, serving over 200,000 in the 2017 application season thus far. Interfolio currently serves 1.7 million higher education users across its entire faculty technology platform.

“We’ve based this product on years of thoughtful research and engagement with the academic community. We understand what those on the job market are up against—how many applications they send in a year, how they need on-demand phone and email support, how confidential letters are requested and used—and wanted to re-invent Dossier to better fit their needs,” says Erin Mayhood, Dossier’s Product Manager.

In July 2017, Interfolio re-invented Dossier as a free platform-for-life for scholars to aggregate, organize, and store their personal and confidential materials for their entire academic career. When they’re ready to go on the market, scholars can upgrade to Dossier Deliver, a premium service that provides up to 50 deliveries of academic materials to opportunities like faculty jobs, post-docs, and fellowships for only $48. The product continues to build upon essential scholarly job application needs, like requesting, storing, and sending confidential letters, but adds distinctly academic functionality, such as thematic collections to support various application types and the ability to leverage Dossier materials for institutional reviews, such as tenure and promotion.

“Dossier is the center of our holistic faculty information system; we believe that if you center on faculty and put their experience and needs first, the entire higher education ecosystem benefits,” says Interfolio CEO, Andrew Rosen. “Dossier allows faculty to own their information, tell their unique story, and drive how it’s shared, no matter where they are in their academic lifecycle. With this release, we continue to deliver on our promise of a faculty information system that engages faculty and institutions at every stage of their scholarly path, from first application through tenure. Or, as a Provost recently explained, ‘from hire to retire.’”

About Interfolio

Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on the ecosystem of faculty work, decisions, and data in higher education. With modules for faculty recruitment and hiring; review, promotion, and tenure; and faculty activity reporting and accreditation, Interfolio is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to provide a faculty-first engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. Visit www.interfolio.com to learn more.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26—University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has partnered with Interfolio, provider of faculty-first higher education technology, to establish a digital solution for faculty review, tenure, promotion, and activity reporting.

UCSD, a leading public research institution in the University of California system, chose Interfolio as a solution to its challenges around transparency and equity in shared governance processes for faculty review. Stakeholders involved in the decision found Interfolio’s focus on the faculty-user in processes like review, promotion, and tenure aligned with UCSD’s vision for how faculty should engage with and benefit from campus technology.

“Interfolio’s Promotion & Tenure and FACULTY180 modules provide a robust faculty-focused platform that will ease the academic personnel process with its forward-looking technology for university settings. This system will increase transparency, provide our academics with invaluable tools for activity sharing and analytics, and overall, it will ease the burden for faculty being reviewed, for reviewers making these important decisions, and for staff preparing academic review materials,” said Cindy Palmer, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel. “We are excited to embark on this partnership with a company that actively collaborates and gathers feedback with its partner institutions and faculty user groups to tackle the highly complex issues in higher education.”

A second consideration when partnering with Interfolio was the flexibility available in its workflow technology; homegrown and competitor systems did not accommodate the varied, nuanced, and complex processes around appointment, review, and tenure across departments and colleges at the university.

“UCSD is a model for forward-thinking, agile technology adoption,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “From our perspective, the opportunity to partner with an institution so rich in complexity, focused on effectiveness, and oriented to faculty value is exceptional.”

About Interfolio

Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on the ecosystem of faculty work, decisions, and data in higher education. With modules for faculty recruitment and hiring; review, promotion, and tenure; and faculty activity reporting and accreditation, Interfolio is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to provide a faculty-first engine for intelligent decision making in higher education.

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2017—Leading private research university Boston College has chosen to expand its partnership with Interfolio, pioneer in faculty-first higher education technology, by adding the Promotion & Tenure faculty review platform to its existing contracts for the company’s recruitment and reporting offerings.

“We had already spent five years modernizing and streamlining our faculty recruitment with Interfolio’s help, and we had carefully chosen the best faculty activity reporting platform for our needs,” says Jessica Pesce, Ph.D., Associate Director, Faculty and Academic Affairs. “We saw a golden opportunity both to link all these faculty affairs processes together and to bring the workload of tenure and promotion into the digital age.”

With this move, Boston College now uses all four of Interfolio’s faculty technology products to address the full cycle of recruitment, academic career development, tenure and formal review, and activity reporting. (Promotion & Tenure includes Interfolio’s Dossier product for all faculty members at the institution.)

“As a client since 2012, Boston College has been an instrumental partner in the development of our faculty-centric products and has helped us to meet the complex needs of higher education,” says Interfolio CEO Andrew Rosen. “We’re excited that we’re their solution for faculty data and accreditation, as well as the platform for every moment in the Boston College faculty lifecycle, from hiring to professional service, promotion, and tenure.”

In addition to the collaborative relationship from the beginnings of the company’s Faculty Search platform, Boston College had separately adopted the FACULTY180 faculty activity reporting product in 2016 (prior to Interfolio’s acquisition of peer company DATA180). “Throughout our five years working with Interfolio,” says Pesce, “they have consistently maintained a genuine dialogue with us about our experience, how we use the product, and what could make their services more valuable to us. They’ve let us help shape the kind of technology that we actually need, and we’re very thankful for that.”