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Conference: CUPA-HR 2018

October 7-9, 2018 / Indianapolis, IN

Come meet us at the CUPA-HR 2018 Annual Conference and Expo!

Do you wish faculty hiring, promotion, and activity data reporting processes at your university could be more cost-effective and consistent?

At the CUPA-HR 2018 Annual Conference and Expo, we’d love to meet you, learn about your institution’s particular challenges, and share how we’ve helped with these administrative necessities around faculty members at our client universities.

For just one example, the Human Resources office at the University of Florida sought out Interfolio for a major hiring initiative after seeing a presentation at CUPA-HR from a different client institution.

By handling such administrative concerns more efficiently and transparently—and freeing up academic staff members’ time so they can focus on students or research—the human resources office can build a needed bridge between academic staff and institutional administration, and can help the university have a greater impact overall.

With over 275 client institutions throughout higher education, Interfolio leads the market in innovative development of technology designed specifically to benefit both institutions and their faculty.

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Conference: AAMC GFA 2018

July 13-15, 2018 / St. Louis, MO

Come meet us at the AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs conference 2018!

Interfolio offers a holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work, from hiring to annual review, committee work, research, activity reporting and more—all of which provide rich data useful to internal and external stakeholders.  

Interfolio works with many prominent medical schools across the U.S., including Duke University School of Medicine, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the University of Washington School of Medicine, and many more.

With over 275 client institutions throughout higher education, Interfolio leads the market in innovative development of technology designed specifically to benefit both institutions and their faculty.

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Conference: Wonkfest 2018 (UK)

November 5-6, 2018 / London, UK

Do you wish academic staff promotion, data collection/reporting, and hiring processes at your university could be more cost-effective and consistent?

At Wonkfest 2018, we’d love to meet you, learn about your institution’s particular challenges, and share how we’ve helped with these administrative necessities around academic staff at our client universities.

By handling such administrative concerns more efficiently and transparently—and freeing up academic staff members’ time so they can focus on students or research—administrative offices can build a needed bridge between academics and institutional administration, and can help the university have a greater impact overall.

Sponsored Panel: “Nothing is certain but REF and taxonomies”

Tuesday, 6 November 2018, 10:15-11:00 AM GMT

Interfolio founder, president, and chief product officer Steve Goldenberg will participate in a panel alongside:

Contact us for more information about that panel.

Who is Interfolio?

Interfolio is an academic technology company, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., that currently helps over 275 universities to manage and track the work, decisions, and data of academic staff. Interfolio operates the Faculty Information System, the first of its kind in higher education. 

Today universities of all kinds—including large and small, research-intensive and teaching-oriented, the more traditional and the more experimental—use the Faculty Information System to manage academic staff work and information. 

Come by our table, or schedule an informal one-on-one conversation to learn more about how your own institution’s academic staff data and decision processes could benefit from the Faculty Information System.

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Conference: AdvanceHE EDI 2018 (UK)

October 31 – November 1, 2018 / Liverpool, UK

Do you wish academic staff processes such as probation/promotion, mentoring, and committee service might be more consistent and equitable?

A few members of Interfolio are attending the AdvanceHE EDI Conference 2018. We’d love to meet you, learn about your institution’s particular challenges, and share how we’ve helped to improve processes and information management around academic staff at our client universities.

By approaching systems for academic promotion workflows and for data collection with an academic staff-orientated perspective, universities can establish both practical and analytical mechanisms for meaningfully increasing diverse representation among academic staff—and build a needed bridge between academics and administration.

Who is Interfolio?

Interfolio is an academic technology company, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., that currently helps over 275 universities to manage and track the work, decisions, and data of academic staff. Interfolio operates the Faculty Information System, the first of its kind in higher education. 

Today universities of all kinds—including large and small, research-intensive and teaching-oriented, the more traditional and the more experimental—use the Faculty Information System to manage academic staff work and information. 

Schedule an informal one-on-one conversation to learn more about how your own institution’s academic staff data and decision processes could benefit from the Faculty Information System.

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ORCID Members Now Able to Easily Integrate Research and Manage Career Achievements through Faculty-Focused Platform

Leading provider of faculty-focused technology Interfolio offers new levels of integration with researcher-identification system to enhance accuracy and completeness of scholarly accomplishments.

WASHINGTON, DC — October 10, 2018 — Interfolio, creator of the first faculty information system, announced an enhanced partnership with ORCID, provider of unique identifiers for scholars. With this partnership, researchers and their institutions will be able to synch scholarly data within a single, faculty-focused platform, streamlining the scholar recognition process.

“We are excited to be working with Interfolio,” said Laurel Haak, Executive Director of ORCID. “Faculty will benefit from easier information exchange, saving them time, and consequently institutions will have more accurate data to support their reporting needs.”

“Partnering with ORCID further adds to our ability to empower faculty to develop their academic story continuously across their career,” said Ben Wang, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Interfolio. “ORCID integration with Interfolio’s FIS makes it nearly seamless for faculty to leverage, enhance, and add to their scholarly story from a central platform.”

Through this expanded partnership, faculty at institutions using Interfolio are able to seamlessly update their data from their ORCID record, which consolidates individuals’ research, scholarship, and innovation contributions from a variety of sources. Faculty will gain a powerful tool for seeing and sharing their accomplishments, and institutions will have a more complete and accurate view of the research and activities of their scholars.

Interfolio’s Faculty Information System is the first-ever engagement platform to harness academic activity, decisions, and data for institutional insight. The suite of solutions is specially designed to help academics tell their professional and scholarly stories, as well as to overcome the arduous shared governance and data collection processes. Interfolio provides technology to support faculty hiring, activity reporting, and shared governance decisions, like faculty review, promotion, and tenure.

To learn more about Interfolio’s suite of academic-centered solutions, contact our team today.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 250 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

About ORCID

ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research and innovation, from imagining to building and managing, are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, and borders, and time. ORCID provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research and innovation activities. We provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations. We provide this service to help people find information and to simplify reporting and analysis.

Training Webinar: Interfolio Client Community (Fall 2018)

Thursday, November 8, 2018 / 2:00-3:00 PM EST

In this free webinar and Q&A about the online Interfolio Client Community, find out:

  • [Recap] How to make use of the community in the way useful to you
  • Which professional roles we expect to find the most value in the Client Community
  • Planned future improvements to the Client Community
  • What YOU would like to see in the Client Community!

About the Interfolio Client Community

The Interfolio Client Community is an exclusive online space for conversation and technical support, intended for administrative users at organizations that use one or more of the following Interfolio software products: 

  • Interfolio Faculty180
  • Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure
  • Interfolio Faculty Search

If you are such a person, and you are interested in learning more about how to get the most out of the Client Community, this webinar is a great opportunity to do so.

Need support now?

Please contact Interfolio Scholar Services at help@interfolio.com, or at (877) 997-8807, 9:00-6:00 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.

This webinar took place in November 2018.

Training Webinar: Packet Layout Changes + Reusing Past Case Materials

This training webinar, meant for Administrator users in Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure, introduces two upcoming changes affecting candidate packets:

  • Packet layout changes. We will be changing the visual layout of the candidate packet so that the administrator view and the candidate view will resemble each other much more closely.
  • Reusing past case materials. We will be adding the ability for an Administrator to pre-populate a candidate’s case with suggested materials pulled from that candidate’s past cases, which the candidate can accept, edit, or remove.

In addition to the new features, this webinar is a great opportunity to get a refresher on what the candidates will encounter, and how to manage that experience on the administrative end.

This webinar took place in October 2018.

University of Louisville Launches New Program to Re-Design Faculty Activity Reporting and Workflows

The University of Louisville taps Interfolio, creator of higher education’s faculty information system, to provide a campus-wide digital solution for faculty review, promotion, tenure, and activity reporting.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 18, 2018 – The University of Louisville, a prominent public research institution, has partnered with Interfolio to better support shared governance practices and improve managing data throughout the faculty lifecycle. Using Interfolio’s digital platform, the university aims to enable faculty to devote more time to teaching and research by streamlining faculty data management, promotion, and tenure processes.

“We had multiple systems to track faculty information that created a lot of redundancy,” said Tracy Eells, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. “We wanted to alleviate the pain points for our faculty through time savings, ease of use, and consolidation of information we request from them. In addition, we wanted to make it easier on review committees for all key decision processes—like promotion and tenure, annual reviews, post-tenure reviews, contract renewals, and sabbaticals.”

Designed for the unique needs of faculty, Interfolio’s platform provides a full suite of faculty-focused technology to support every stage in the faculty lifecycle, from hiring through tenure. Decision makers found Interfolio’s expertise and commitment aligned well with the University’s vision for how faculty and administrators should engage with and benefit from campus technology.

Additional considerations related to benefits for administrators, as noted by Paula Hensel, Director of Faculty Affairs, “We had no way to track faculty data centrally to support our workflows. We wanted to move to an electronic system, away from the paper-based personnel action processes, to achieve increased efficiencies.”

“The University of Louisville is a model of a forward-thinking metropolitan research university committed to having an impact on the local and global communities,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “The opportunity to partner with a major institution focused on advancing its mission by advancing its faculty is truly extraordinary.”

About University of Louisville

Established in 1798, UofL is Kentucky’s premier, nationally recognized metropolitan research university. With over 22,000 students and three campuses, UofL offers more than 200 areas of study from its 12 colleges and schools. The institution is a long-time leader in medical breakthroughs.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossiers for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 200 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

Interfolio Partners with Edalex to Support Academics in Australia and New Zealand

Trusted education services provider Edalex will collaborate with Interfolio to provide Australian educational institutions with the first-ever engagement platform for academic activity, decisions, and data.

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA — September 11, 2018— Interfolio, the leading faculty information system company, today announced a new partnership with Edalex, a leading educational services company, to better support academics in Australia and New Zealand. Through this partnership, institutions across Australia and New Zealand can now access Interfolio’s innovative Faculty Information System, a first-of-its-kind platform streamlining shared governance and academic data collection processes.

“As a company, our mission is to use technology to support and highlight the work of academics in order to provide insights and action that further the institutional mission,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO at Interfolio. “We’re excited to partner with Edalex, an organisation that shares our passion for education innovation, to extend our platform’s reach to Australia and New Zealand, and support academics in the region.”

Through Interfolio and Edalex’s partnership, educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand will be able to utilise Interfolio’s globally-implemented suite of solutions for the hiring, review, and promotion processes of academic staff, as well as activity reporting to provide critical analytical insight into the scholarly engine powering the institution. Additionally, institutions will have access to local account management, implementation services, and unified customer support.

Interfolio’s Faculty Information System is the first-ever engagement platform to harness academic activity, decisions, and data for institutional insight. The suite of solutions is driven by a need to help academics tell their professional and scholarly story, as well as to overcome the arduous management of shared governance and data collection processes on campus.

“Edalex’s mission is to ‘help put innovation into education’ and we believe Interfolio is uniquely positioned to deliver that to institutions across the ANZ region,” said Dan McFadyen, Managing Director of Edalex. “Their products recognise the critical role that academics play in the institutional ecosystem and provide with them intuitive tools to make their experience more rewarding and productive.”

To learn more about Interfolio’s suite of academic-centred solutions, contact our team today.

About Interfolio

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is an education technology company based in Washington, DC, and offers the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—encompassing job seeking, professional accomplishment (in teaching, research, and service), evaluation success (in reviews, tenure, promotion, sabbatical), and beyond. All Interfolio software applications focus on faculty, with workflow tools to support shared governance processes; activity reporting solutions that support accreditation, decision making, and data analytics; and consumer offerings that provide portable, private dossier collection and curation for sharing with academics and others. Working with over 250 clients, Interfolio leads with vision and innovation, always focused on advancing faculty and their institutions. For more information about Interfolio, please contact team@interfolio.com, or visit www.interfolio.com.

About Edalex

Edalex delivers a range of services for the education sector. With deep expertise in the educational technology sector, and strong engagement with local educational institutions, Edalex delivers proven results for both clients and partners. Edalex is the official Asia Pacific services and support provider for the open-source repository openEQUELLA, and is the exclusive ANZ reseller and support partner for both the analytics-driven student communication platform, Full Measure Education, and Interfolio’s Faculty Information System.  Find out more at edalex.com/interfolio.

Training Webinar: Position Creation and Management

The training covers topics such as the different user roles in Faculty Search, approval workflow, managing a search, reviewing and rating applicant materials, and properly closing a search. It is a fantastic opportunity to get a refresher of Faculty Search and a demo of the most recent functionality.

This webinar took place in August 2018.