How Modern Universities Manage Faculty Evaluations

Interfolio is different from conventional data/workflow technologies due to its “full lifecycle” approach to your faculty members’ time at your institution. 

In addition to flexible evaluation workflows that eliminate hours of administrative work, ensure compliance with policies, and give faculty clarity, Interfolio helps universities:

• Anticipate future faculty milestones and eligibility
• See a visual representation of all faculty career paths (both expected and actual)
• Easily document, confirm, and compare faculty employment agreements
• Hire faculty and report on recruitment data
• Easily collect and report on reliable faculty activity data

About our client guests

We were thrilled to speak with Dr. William Bajor, Director Graduate & Extended Studies and Dr. Rob Smith (AVP) at East Stroudsburg University and Dr. Scott Billingsley, Professor of History and Associate Provost at University of North Carolina, Pembroke about how they have improved faculty evaluations at their institutions. Both of these institutions have joined the growing number of colleges and universities that run faculty evaluations and other workflows through the Interfolio platform.

We discussed aspects like:

• How Interfolio alleviates the administrative burden required to conduct faculty evaluation cases properly and equitably
• What kinds of new information and transparency around faculty career development these universities have gained by using Interfolio
• Why an effective faculty evaluations technology has become a new requirement for modern universities of all sizes

We also provided a short product demonstration to better understand the Interfolio module approach.

This Digital Roundtable was recorded on March 25, 2021

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Learn how a leading institution is maximizing integrations to streamline faculty searches

Georgetown University has been an Interfolio partner for over five years, and has long been an innovative leader in modernizing various faculty processes. Georgetown leverages Interfolio Faculty Search to recruit top talent and facilitate committee reviews within a user-friendly platform. Like many institutions, Georgetown conducts other aspects of searches such as budgeting and approval through an Enterprise Resource Planning system like Workday. 

In this webinar, Georgetown will demonstrate the following outcomes of adopting Interfolio:

1. A consistent process for candidates and departments
2. Uniform data collection for applicants and committees
3. Compliance with EEO and Demographic Reporting
4. Increased efficiency by saving time on transfers of information
5. How easy Interfolio is to use for applicants and search committees

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Higher education—and indeed, the world at large—has undergone a dramatic shift this past year. We look ahead to 2021 and our vision for empowering scholars worldwide to advance their work, their careers, and their institutions.

CEO Andrew Rosen discussed how Interfolio’s platform approach connects academic recruitment, faculty activity data, committee work, and impact tracking, bringing the scholar’s professional journey into a central place.

Ben Wang, Senior Vice President of Product, discussed our customer-centric approach to product strategy and will share themes and initiatives of the 2021 roadmap.

In this webinar, we covered:

• How faculty and their challenges impact Interfolio’s work and product outlook, and what we learned in 2020
• What faculty technology trends/patterns we’ve seen recently, including Faculty Information Systems being named a top 10 strategic technology for higher education in 2020 by Gartner (attribute) 
• Where Interfolio is headed with our upcoming product innovation

Webinar Guests

This webinar aired in January 2021.

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Everything you need to know to be ready for the fall 2022 academic year. 

Watch our free webinar and Q&A with Interfolio’s Professional Services team to learn about:

• Starting small with one faculty process, and moving outward when you’re ready.
• Incentivizing stakeholders and getting buy-in at all stages—even from the faculty senate.
• Moving from a paper process vs. evolving from an existing digital system.
• Building your advocates for expansion.
• Showing tangible impact on investment before you ever implement.

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Everything you need to know to be ready for the fall 2021 academic year
(Spoiler alert: it’s not too soon) 

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• How (and when) to involve your colleagues and leadership for a successful change to an online faculty management system
• How peers have implemented faculty technology
• What a common approximate timeline is for an institution to roll out new technology for fall processes 
• What digital systems for review, promotion, and tenure and lifecycle management could look like on your campus

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Watch this discussion on the flexible and varied uses of the right faculty activity reporting system. 

Best practices from University of Wyoming and Winthrop University

A well-known challenge in higher education is collecting, accessing, presenting, and analyzing data about the professional activities of scholars.

In this free webinar, University of Wyoming and Winthrop University discuss how they approach faculty activity reporting on their campuses. 

In 2019, the University of Wyoming was the first institution to include the Interfolio Lifecycle Management along with the use of the Faculty Activity Reporting and Review, Promotion & Tenure modules. Annual reviews, CV generation, accreditation, and reporting are just a few outputs from Interfolio Faculty Activity Reporting at Wyoming. 

Winthrop was the first institution ever to adopt the full available Interfolio platform for hiring, activity reporting, and faculty review workflows in 2017. Today, they use Interfolio Faculty Activity Reporting to realize consistent and efficient processes across campus and bring value at once to faculty and administration with faculty activity reporting. 

“As a land grant institution, we are committed to supporting thriving agriculture, natural resources, people, and communities in Wyoming through quality education, innovative research, and impactful engagement. Building on our history and identity as Wyoming’s sole land-grant and public flagship institution, we are developing more effective, sustainable, and equitable relationships with our communities to address the complex economic and social challenges facing Wyoming, and the world. Interfolio is part of how universities like ours tell this story.”

Tami Benham-Deal, P.E.D Vice Provost for Academic Personnel University of Wyoming

Webinar Guests

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Learn about higher education’s new path to trustworthy academic data.

Please join us for a free webinar about faculty data and how universities can streamline their faculty activity reporting needs.

Special guest Bridget Mullaney, MD, of the FACET Project Team in the Office of the Provost at Emory University, joins us to share a case study on their approach to activity reporting with Interfolio, and we will discuss why Emory was drawn to the innovative new Interfolio Data Service. 

Launched fall 2020, the Interfolio Data Service represents a new way of tackling a fundamental challenge in academic information management: ensuring the ongoing reliability of faculty activity data. 

Emory University is the first higher education institution to partner with Interfolio on the vision of the new Data Service and its potential to populate the Interfolio Faculty Activity Reporting database with reliable citation data. We’ll hear what problems they are seeking to solve with this groundbreaking offering.

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This webinar took place in October 2020.

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