Starting this month, ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure allows you to include any number of separate committees at any individual review step, instead of just one committee per step. It’s the newest installment in this year’s collaborative developments arising from direct input from our campus partners.
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We’ve added a sleek notifications feature to all Interfolio user accounts! Whether you’re using your account to access ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure, ByCommittee Faculty Search, your personal Dossier account, or Letter Writer, now you’ve got a way to see exactly what’s awaiting your attention. Going hand in hand with notifications, we’ve also repainted the header and footer of your Interfolio account pages—making for a more unified look and feel.
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A very common request we have received from Administrative users in ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure is for some way to capture more data about candidates up for promotion or tenure, and associate that data with those candidates’ specific cases. This might mean diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity data, for example, or any other information that the institution has collected through some means that’s external to the promotion process.
Assembling the right dossier packet for these processes can be difficult enough—why should generating additional data about a candidate add to your workload? That’s why we are so excited to reveal a new feature in ByCommittee Promotion and Tenure module called case data forms, a powerful form tool that captures even more comprehensive, customizable and reportable data than ever before!
Case data forms can be used to include additional information about candidates at your institution beyond the data actually collected via the promotion process. Forms can be created at any unit in your institution and will be available for use by Administrators at all units below it in your institutional hierarchy. Administrators can attach forms to cases or templates. Case data forms are way to capture candidate information or case-specific data directly from the administrators instead of from the candidate.
There are a ton of ways to use Case Data Forms. Think of it as an opportunity to add external information to the case, like candidate EEO data, that you may want to include in reporting later. You might wish to analyze diversity, demographic, career mobility, or committee service patterns among candidates up for promotion or tenure, across years and academic units. We want to help you get the most out of this powerful tool!
We do have a help article that explains a bit more, which will show you how to create your first form. In addition, feel free to contact our Client Success team at clientsuccess@interfolio.com if you’d like to set up a conference call to discuss how to get the most out of case data forms. Also, feel free to invite at your institution who you think would benefit from learning about the new reporting capabilities to sit in on the call.
With that, welcome to 2016 from the Interfolio team!
We heard you again! Based on a wide range of feedback from our campus partners, we’re happy to release the new annotations feature in both ByCommittee Faculty Search and ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure. Now you can make notes to yourself on candidate materials as you read. Along the way, we’ve made some improvements to the document viewer throughout the platform.
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You used. You commented. We listened. We’re proud to announce a pair of new features in ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure that enable you to track your school’s academic promotion activity more fully: case statuses and committee voting. Check out the two quick videos below for an overview. Continue reading “Case Statuses and Committee Voting in ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure”
Lots of folks from the higher education community participated in this week’s webinar, “Ditching the Binder: Best Practices in Digital Promotion & Tenure,” with Sewanee’s Elizabeth Skomp,Professor of Russian and Associate Dean of the College. We thought we’d share some of the most popular questions we received about our ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure platform and how it can be used. Missed the webinar? Want to listen again? Watch the recording online.
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Register here for the February 25, 2016 installment of the Interfolio webinar series! We’ll be talking with Sewanee about how they’ve reorganized and streamlined their tenure and faculty promotion processes using the ByCommittee online platform. There is no cost to attend. UPDATE: Watch the recording online.
Neat improvement coming out in ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure! As of today, you can get a lot more detailed with the requirements, due dates, and arrangement of the candidate packet. Now our platform can match your institution’s unique requirements with a new level of accuracy and accommodate a wider variety of academic committee review models.
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Starting today, institutions and organizations using ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure will be able to customize certain aspects of the platform’s appearance to match their own brand, so that a user’s interaction with the ByCommittee environment feels more like interaction with the client institution.
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We’re excited to roll out an updated appearance for our user account dashboard (the home page that displays when a user signs into their Interfolio account) and for our Dossier, Portfolio, and Letter Writer products. For the time being, the changes are only cosmetic—all the same pages retain the same functionality they had before—but they should make our platform easier and more consistent to navigate. Continue reading “User Account Dashboard Gets A New Look (and Dossier, Portfolio, Letter Writer Get A Paint Job)”
