Webinar: Institutional Impediments to Faculty Service

Sarah B. Steinberg, Ed.D + Interfolio: Institutional Impediments to Faculty Service and Productivity

Thursday, January 28, 2016 / 2:00-3:00 PM EST

Faculty are the greatest investment an institution makes in its success: so why is their service often unsupported? Faculty also hold some of the most important institutional decisions in their hands, like hiring, tenure, and curriculum. Despite this value, most colleges and universities have a disproportionate investment in technology for student success. By not providing adequate means for enhancing workflow and data access, institutions inadvertently impede their faculty’s productivity, which costs time, money, and research outcomes. Technological solutions exist for nearly every other segment of higher education, from student success and retention to alumni giving: so why not for faculty?

Join Sarah Steinberg, Ed.D., Founder of Frogstone Strategies and Former Executive Vice Provost at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss:

Recent hiring trends and the resulting impact on faculty work
The true cost of faculty service on financial, research, and recruitment outcomes
The role of technology in supporting faculty work and making service to the institution more effective and efficient

As the founder and principal consultant of Frogstone Strategies, a firm that provides resource and strategic assessments, market research, and consulting services to colleges and universities, Dr. Sarah Steinberg brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience in higher education to her role. With expertise gained as the former Executive Vice Provost as well as the Senior Associate Dean of the Advanced Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Steinberg specializes in revenue enhancement through online, continuing, and professional education; strategic planning and assessment; market analysis and research; academic leadership and administration; technology usage and application; and business/education consulting.

Interfolio Announces $12 Million in First Institutional Financing

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 11th, 2016 /Marketwire/ — Interfolio, the pioneer in academic decision support software, announced today that it has raised over $12 million in institutional financing to fund its growth. The financing was led by Quad Partners, a private investment firm focused exclusively on the education industry.

“With all the investment and innovation that has occurred in education technology, one particular group has been left behind: faculty,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “Our focus is building software that makes faculty life easier and more productive. Faculty will be able to focus on both teaching and research and our software will help them take care of everything else.”

This investment will enable the company to continue to serve its clients with an expanded set of services and catalyze Interfolio’s position at the forefront of the movement to invest in faculty technology. This investment will further enable Interfolio to assist post-secondary educational institutions to intelligently enhance revenue and increase strategic focus on their core mission.

“We look for higher education technology companies that have strong traction in solving large problems with opportunities for accelerated growth,” said James Tieng, a Principal at Quad Partners. “Interfolio is poised to both define and lead the market of academic decision support software and faculty focused technology in higher education.”

The investment will be used to fund strategic growth, enabling the company to both enhance its current services and software while at the same time developing tools and additional software to make administrative workflows easier for faculty.

About Quad Partners
Quad Partners was founded in 2000 to make value-added private investments in the education industry. Today, Quad is one of the most active investors in privately-owned education companies in the United States. Visit www.quadpartners.com to learn more.

About Interfolio
Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on solving large, evolving problems in higher education. ByCommittee™ is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to facilitate academic decision support and provide an engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. Visit www.interfolio.com to learn more.

Media Contact

Katherine Kelly
katherine.kelly@interfolio.com

Rhode Island College Selects DATA180 for Co-Curricular Transcripts and Activity Tracking

Content originally published on data180.com. Learn more about Interfolio’s acquisition of Data180 here.

Morehead, KY, October 19, 2015 – DATA180 has been selected by Rhode Island College to provide its CO-CURRICULAR180 transcripts and activity tracking system to school administrators and students. Rhode Island College will be using the CO-CURRICULAR180 system to centrally manage and track the co-curricular activities of its students, generate reports based on student co-curricular activities, and electronically distribute transcripts as needed.

“By using DATA180 for our co-curricular transcript, Rhode Island College will be able to offer students a valuable resource through which to track, validate, and compile a record of their learning through out-of-classroom experiences,“ notes Marissa Weiss, Interim Associate Dean of Student Life at Rhode Island College.

“We are very excited to partner with Rhode Island College for the purpose of launching an electronic co-curricular transcripts and activity tracking system. We appreciate the opportunity this collaboration provides through our association with a great academic institution,” says L. K. Williams, President of DATA180.

CO-CURRICULAR180 delivers state-of-the-art efficiencies for colleges and universities by providing a centralized database and documentation tools within a single interface for capturing co-curricular activities and tracking activities, along with transcript distribution.

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Andrew Rosen Appointed CEO of Interfolio

Education Technology Veteran Takes Helm To Rapidly Grow Business

WASHINGTON, D.C., June, 29, 2015 — Interfolio, a higher education software company, announced today that it has appointed Andrew Rosen as its Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Rosen will also join the company’s Board of Directors.

Rosen is one of the early co-founders of Blackboard, the co-founder and President of Presidium, and recently served in senior executive roles at The Education Advisory Board and Microstrategy. He brings over fifteen years of experience building the fastest growing and most successful education technology companies in the world.

“Andrew has an unmatched record of growing important education technology companies that make a meaningful difference in people’s lives,” said Steve Goldenberg, the founder and outgoing CEO of Interfolio who recruited Andrew Rosen to lead the company. Goldenberg will continue to serve as the company’s Chief Product Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors. “Having Andrew Rosen join as CEO feels a little bit like lighting a match to can of gas. It’s explosive, exciting, and you know it’s going to be big.”

“I am excited to work with Steve and the excellent team at Interfolio to not only rapidly grow the business, but to make a profoundly positive impact on lives of academics, colleges, and universities worldwide,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “The company has long built trusted relationships in higher education, and has a tremendously talented team already in place. I look forward to working with clients and the team to grow Interfolio into the leader of the academic decision support space.”

Interfolio was founded in 1999 to help job applicants in higher education. With its Dossier product, Interfolio helps scholars manage their career accomplishments at every stage of the academic lifecycle, from hiring to tenure. In 2012 Interfolio released ByCommittee, an academic decision support system that helps colleges and universities automate and streamline the way faculty committees make the decisions that drive higher education. The company currently acts as a software partner to over 300 institutions, 6,000 committees, and one million individual scholars worldwide.

About Interfolio
Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on solving large, evolving problems in higher education. ByCommittee™ is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to facilitate academic decision support and provide an engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. Visit www.interfolio.com to learn more.

Media Contact

Katherine Kelly
katherine.kelly@interfolio.com

Queen’s University Selects DATA180 for Research and Academic CV and Annual Reporting Solution

Content originally published on data180.com. Learn more about Interfolio’s acquisition of Data180 here.

Morehead, KY, April 30, 2015 – DATA180 has been selected by Queen’s University to provide its FACULTY180 faculty activity reporting and evaluation system to administrators and faculty. Queen’s University will be using the FACULTY180 system to obtain the necessary information from CVs to input, verify, and extract information for research submissions; provide annual reports to deans; and provide CV information for the RTP (Renewal, Tenure/Continuing Appointment, Promotion) and QUQAP (Queen’s University Quality Assurance Processes).

“We are pleased to partner with DATA180 to build a web-based CV and annual reporting tool that reduces the administrative burden on our researchers and gives them more time to advance research excellence, leadership and innovation at Queen’s,” says Steven Liss, Vice-Principal (Research) for Queen’s University.

“The robust, customizable system offered by DATA180 will meet the specific needs related to our various internal processes such as annual reporting, renewal, tenure and promotion, and quality assurance. The single repository and integration with other systems at Queen’s will ensure users can quickly and easily find the information, and generate the report formats, that they require,” states Laeeque Daneshmend, Deputy Provost for Queen’s University.

“We are very excited to partner with one of Canada’s most prestigious academic institutions for the purpose of launching an online faculty data management solution. We appreciate the opportunity this collaboration provides through our association with a truly remarkable academic institution,” says L. K. Williams, President of DATA180.

FACULTY180 delivers state-of-the-art efficiencies for colleges and universities throughout the faculty information chain, from accreditation reporting to self-service analytics, evaluation processing to standardized workflow processes.

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Kent State University Chooses DATA180 for Faculty Evaluation Solution

Content originally published on data180.com. Learn more about Interfolio’s acquisition of Data180 here.

Morehead, KY, April 2, 2015 – DATA180 has been selected by Kent State University to provide its FACULTY180 faculty activity reporting and evaluation system to administrators and faculty, replacing the current legacy system at Kent State University. Kent State University will be using the FACULTY180 system to manage annual reviews, along with tenure and promotion evaluations.

“The FACULTY180 system offers great flexibility while allowing us to remain efficient and organized in our collection of faculty materials,” said Todd A. Diacon, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of Kent State University. “This robust, web-based, highly customizable system will be able to offer the same portfolio format that we enjoyed with our legacy system and will also provide additional functionality as our needs change and grow. We have received great support from DATA180 as we make this transition. They have been very responsive to the needs of our institution in customizing a system that works for us.”

FACULTY180 delivers state-of-the-art efficiencies for colleges and universities throughout the faculty information chain, from accreditation reporting to self-service analytics, evaluation processing to standardized workflow processes.

About DATA180

Founded in Kentucky in 2002, DATA180 began with a vision to digitally “turn around” academe with robust, elegant, easy-to-use solutions. From that moment, we have been driven by five fundamental values that continue to inspire and guide everything we do. These core values that, we’re proud to say, have resulted in our solutions being trusted by some of the largest and most prestigious academic institutions in the world.

In 2017 we joined forces with Interfolio, the leading provider of technology to support complex shared governance decisions, like hiring, promotion, and tenure. We’re now on target to provide a more robust platform of comprehensive tools for every moment in the faculty lifecycle, from hiring through post-tenure review.

Interfolio Reinvents Promotion and Tenure with World’s First Online Solution

Eighteen Months of Research Key to Dramatic Efficiency Gains

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 21, 2014 — Interfolio, the leading provider of technological solutions and services for scholars, today launched the world’s first online platform for promotion and tenure committees. The platform—ByCommittee Promotion and Tenure (P&T)— raises the efficiency, transparency, and consistency of promotion and tenure reviews to unprecedented benchmarks.

“The concept of tenure is a proud and significant part of faculty life, but its review process has grown corroded and counter-productive,” said Interfolio CEO Steve Goldenberg. “To save the tradition of the tenure review, we knew we’d have to rebuild it from the inside out.”

ByCommittee P&T, an extension of Interfolio’s popular ByCommittee platform, is the latest realization of Interfolio’s fifteen-year mission: to create technological solutions and services that bring efficiency, balance, and autonomy to the lives of scholars—with institutional and legal compliance built-in.

“After the success of ByCommittee Faculty Search, we immediately turned our attention to the frustrations endemic in promotion and tenure committees,” said Goldenberg. “The Interfolio team spent over 18 months working side-by-side with committee chairs, senior administrators, and candidates to uncover every pain point and potential hindrance to the promotion and tenure review process.”

[…] An astonishingly more effective, efficient, and intuitive answer to one of higher education’s most time-consuming problems.

According to Goldenberg, “With that knowledge in hand, we reengineered the entire process, from the ground up, creating an astonishingly more effective, efficient, and intuitive answer to one of higher education’s most time-consuming problems.”

Today, with ByCommittee P&T, nearly all aspects of the promotion and tenure review process can be customized and streamlined. For example:

University leadership and departments can customize packet requirements and case review steps.
Committees can supplement packets with summary statements and external evaluations.
Individual committee members can review materials online—anytime, anywhere.
Candidates can have peace of mind knowing that packets move securely and efficiently through each step of the paperless review process.

About Interfolio
Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on solving large, evolving problems in higher education. ByCommittee™ is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to facilitate academic decision support and provide an engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. Visit www.interfolio.com to learn more.

Media Contact

Katherine Kelly
katherine.kelly@interfolio.com

Interfolio ByCommittee Doubles Customers, Adding Boston College, Johns Hopkins University and Tulane University

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 16, 2012 — Marking continued year-to-year growth among its clients, products and employees, Interfolio, a trusted provider of higher education credential management and committee-based decision-making services, today announced a 13 percent revenue increase. As a result, Interfolio has extended its staff by 50 percent since 2011 and moved into a larger Washington, D.C. office.

Since launching ByCommittee, which helps higher education institutions recruit, evaluate and retain the most talented and diverse candidates, Interfolio has more than doubled its institution clients—including a 100 percent renewal rate and the addition of new customers Boston College, Johns Hopkins University and Tulane University, among others. Interfolio ByCommittee also tripled its individual user base through key partnerships with the American Philosophical Association, Inside Higher Ed and the Modern Language Association.

“As senior administrators at colleges and universities focus on process improvement and reforming operational costs, the need for innovative technology services will continue to grow,” said Steve Goldenberg, CEO of Interfolio. “To help meet this need, Interfolio is committed to streamlining the various selection and decision processes for institutions while creating an exceptional application experience for academic candidates.”

Also, Interfolio Dossier, the company’s founding service that helps scholars manage their academic credentials online, has increased document deliveries by more than 20 percent over the last year. Dossier now supports 300,000 scholars, letter writers and faculty with more than 5 million total documents delivered to date.

About Interfolio
Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on solving large, evolving problems in higher education. ByCommittee™ is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to facilitate academic decision support and provide an engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. Visit www.interfolio.com to learn more.

Media Contact

Katherine Kelly
katherine.kelly@interfolio.com

Interfolio to Launch First-of-its-Kind Online Promotion and Tenure Service for Higher Education Institutions

New ByCommittee Service Supports a Consistent Promotion and Tenure Process and Gives Senior Administrators Visibility into Decisions

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 5, 2012 — Addressing the specific needs of higher education institutions, Interfolio, a trusted provider of higher education credential management and committee-based decision-making services, today announced it will launch a first-of-its-kind online Promotion and Tenure service within its ByCommittee platform in early 2013.

The new service supports a consistent and fair promotion and tenure process for higher education institutions, offering senior administrators more visibility into decisions while delivering a seamless and user-friendly experience for evaluating committees and potential candidates.

“Offering a remarkable user experience for the faculty, staff and executives that sit on review committees, ByCommittee’s Promotion and Tenure service will eliminate many of the manual and tedious administrative tasks from the process enabling more time for review,” said Steve Goldenberg, CEO of Interfolio. “The new service also ensures consistent and fair promotion and tenure practices for institutions, protecting materials and processes with iron-clad security measures.”

About Interfolio
Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on solving large, evolving problems in higher education. ByCommittee™ is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to facilitate academic decision support and provide an engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. Visit www.interfolio.com to learn more.

Media Contact

Katherine Kelly
katherine.kelly@interfolio.com

Interfolio and Inside Higher Ed Strike Partnership to Streamline Application Process for Faculty Job Candidates and Recruiting Institutions

Inside Higher Ed Advertisers Offered Interfolio ByCommittee to Help Collect and Evaluate Applications

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 10, 2012 — Interfolio, a trusted provider of higher education credential management and committee-based decision-making services, today announced an extended partnership with Inside Higher Ed to provide the higher education news outlet’s recruiting customers with Interfolio ByCommittee, a secure online committee-based decision making service.

“Interfolio ByCommittee takes into account the peculiarities and requirements of the academic job application process, and lets search committees collaborate efficiently,” said Kathlene Collins, publisher, Inside Higher Ed. “ByCommittee helps recruiters select talented faculty members – and that’s what Inside Higher Ed is all about. We’re excited to be able to offer ByCommittee to our clients.”

Streamlining the evaluation of faculty, Interfolio ByCommittee allows institutions to review a broad and diverse pool of candidates, while supporting compliance and diversity guidelines. The service makes time-intensive processes unnecessary by allowing search committees to collaborate online with sophisticated evaluation tools and workflows specifically built for higher education institutions.

“ByCommittee is the only service of its kind that relieves the burdens placed on search committees reviewing and collecting application materials,” said Steve Goldenberg, CEO of Interfolio. “We are pleased to help Inside Higher Ed enhance their suite of tools that help institutions hire talented and diverse faculty.”

For more information about Interfolio ByCommittee, please visit https://interfolio.com/products/bycommittee.

About Interfolio
Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on solving large, evolving problems in higher education. ByCommittee™ is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to facilitate academic decision support and provide an engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. Visit www.interfolio.com to learn more.

Media Contact

Katherine Kelly
katherine.kelly@interfolio.com