This weekend, members of the Interfolio team spent time at the AAUP’s Shared Governance Conference in Washington, D.C. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the AAUP’s foundational statement on shared governance, the central policy document that remains the authority for accepted practice on decision-making in higher education.
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This month’s webinar in the Interfolio Presents series addresses a major strategic priority at virtually all U.S. colleges and universities today: diversifying the faculty. We are thrilled that we could contribute to this undertaking and the conversation around it—both with this presentation, and with the technology involved. Watch the recording Continue reading “WEBINAR | Achieving Faculty Search Diversity at UMBC”
Last Thursday, we hosted a webinar with Ellen Stolzenberg and Jennifer Berdan Lozano from UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) to talk about the results of their 2014 Faculty Survey, a comprehensive research instrument for the professoriate in the U.S. The survey is designed, among other things, to identify sources of faculty satisfaction and stress, assess research and service activities, and examine how faculty define their roles. Because we’re particularly interested in service—how much time it takes, how faculty feel about it, and whether there is equity across faculty groups—we spent a lot of time discussing their findings in this area, but we also touched on the big picture of faculty work with survey results about research and teaching as well. Continue reading “Who is performing the service, and how is it valued? Thoughts from our May webinar with HERI”
One point came up in last week’s session at the AAC&U conference that likely resonates at once with scholars on the job market and with faculty members on search committees. Continue reading “AAC&U 2016 session notes, part 1: making the faculty job market more humane”
This month at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Interfolio is hosting a panel discussion on the involvement of faculty in the business decisions of academic institutions.
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If you’re building technology to help with academic talent decisions, how can you build something that is valuable both to faculty serving on committees and to leaders in the administration? Continue reading “Academic Software that Bridges Faculty Committees and Administrative Leadership”
What don’t chief academic officers know about the faculty talent decisions their schools and departments are making? Or about the actual committee work that’s going into them? We throw a few possibilities out there.
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This month, we’re excited to talk with Adrianna Kezar, co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California, about what academic institutions can do to better assist the many faculty members they employ off the tenure track. There is no cost to attend. Watch the recording here and view the slides here.
Cultures of governance really do vary between academic institutions of different sizes, types, affiliations, and location. Policies and practices around faculty employment are part of an ongoing conversation in which expectations, standards, and taboos are always evolving—just like in the rest of the world.
Continue reading “Five faculty affairs blogs we keep an eye on”
As you know, the most important decisions in higher education are made by committee. But how much thought typically goes into arranging the administrative process around these decisions in an efficient, long-term way? As a taster, we offer five (often underexamined) examples.
Continue reading “Some logistical questions to ask about your committee decision practices”
