On-Demand Webinar: FAMU + Interfolio

Lessons on Digitizing Faculty Promotion and Tenure

In this free webinar and Q&A, you’ll see a series of practical lessons learned at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) about how to successfully introduce the Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure module—or perhaps any significant new technology for faculty—on campus.

We speak with Dr. Genyne Boston, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development, who has spearheaded the process of bringing the whole university’s promotion and tenure processes online in a system that actually works for faculty. Today, Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure is the online system FAMU uses to centrally manage the workflows, materials, decision logistics, and candidate experience involved in faculty promotion and tenure cases. The webinar includes a brief live demo of relevant portions of the Interfolio platform.

You’ll learn:

Why FAMU deliberately took a “phased” approach to introducing this new method for these academic review processes
What impact the Interfolio platform has had on time, costs, security, and shared governance around P&T decisions at FAMU
How FAMU and Interfolio have established a “train the trainer” model to support faculty and staff across campus

About our speaker

Dr. Genyne Henry Boston currently serves as the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development at Florida A&M University, where she is a full professor of English and the founding Director for the Teaching and Learning Center. She has served in various administrative roles at the University for more than 15 years. In her role as Associate Provost, Dr. Boston has forged new initiatives designed to support high priority faculty-centered activities like the annual Teaching and Learning Conference, the Provost’s Digital Learning Program, and the Innovative Teaching Award. She is a Higher Education Leadership Institute Fellow, and has participated in executive leadership training with the American Council of Education’s Women’s Leadership Forum and Academic Impressions Advanced Leadership Program. She completed her undergraduate and graduate education at Florida State University. She has also taught at Valencia State College, Tallahassee Community College, and Florida State University.

This webinar took place in June 2018.

Interfolio Announces First Faculty Information System in Higher Education

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2018 / The Interfolio Faculty Information System—the first-ever engagement platform for the entire scope of faculty activity, decisions, and data—launched in the higher education technology market this month.

Driven by a need to help scholars tell their professional and scholarly story, as well as to overcome the arduous management of shared governance and data collection processes on campus, colleges and universities are increasingly turning to Interfolio to help solve their most pressing strategic initiatives with the aid of validated faculty data, transparent workflows, and trusted outcomes.

“When we began searching for a product well-suited to support our academic processes, Interfolio emerged as a leader in the area of faculty technology,” according to Alysia K. Loshbaugh, Assistant Provost for Finance and Operations in the Office of Academic Affairs and Provost at Tulane University. “Interfolio’s cornerstone belief that clients are more than clients—they are partners—coupled with the flexibility of its faculty-first products made it a clear and obvious choice when we were looking to enhance resources to better support our faculty.”

Interfolio’s recent release brings together its faculty technology modules—products for hiring, review and tenure, and activity reporting—into a unified platform or “single source of truth” to provide critical analytic insight into the scholarly engine powering the institution. By leveraging shared governance workflows that capitalize on faculty lifecycle moments—like hiring, grant seeking, research, committee work, course evaluations, annual review, and tenure evaluations—the Faculty Information System creates powerful incentives for faculty buy-in and validation of data by providing tools that make their working lives easier and more effective.

“We’ve been astonished by the demand,” says Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “It’s clear that universities and colleges are seeing the need to help connect their most valuable campus resource—faculty—to their most pressing institutional challenges, whether around revenue, student success, research success, rank and prestige, diversity, or governance.”

For more information on the Interfolio Faculty Information System, please visit www.interfolio.com.

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 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.

Conference: AAUDE 2018

April 29-May 2, 2018 / Minneapolis, MN

Session: Transforming the Institution with Faculty Data

Tuesday, May 1 / 9:30 AM / Room: Think5

This session focuses on the difficulties faced and practices used by institutional researchers to collect, use, and report faculty data. We will share experiences at three universities related to the following areas:

System integrations
Data validation & transparency
Collection efficiencies, cost savings, & buy-in
Reporting and decision processes
Assessment of research & commercialization efforts
Impact of programs on strategic priorities
Accountability for administrators

In addition, we will hear from attendees about their institutions’ pain points and best practices of faculty data management.

Come meet us at AAUDE 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.

With well over 200 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: HLC 2018 Annual Meeting

April 6-10, 2018

Come meet us at Booth 410.

We’ll be at the conference to discuss all aspects of faculty technology, including how we help over 200 academic institutions to better support their faculty’s work, activity reporting, and shared governance models. In addition to a sleek faculty activity reporting platform for HLC accreditation and other data analysis needs, our Faculty Information System addresses faculty development and academic workflows like recruitment, tenure, promotion, and periodic review.

Interfolio happy hour

On Sunday, April 8, from 5:30-7:00 PM, we’re hosting a happy hour with complimentary drinks and snacks onsite at the conference at BIG bar. It’s a chance to talk with our current clients about how we help with HLC accreditation requirements—as well as faculty review, promotion, tenure, and hiring. If you’d like more information, come by Booth 410 or email events@interfolio.com.

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Conference: ACE 2018 Annual Meeting

March 10-13, 2018

Come meet us at Booth 501.

Interfolio covers all aspects of faculty technology, currently helping over 200 academic institutions to better support their faculty’s work, activity reporting, and shared governance models. In addition to a sleek faculty activity reporting platform for accreditation and other data analysis needs, the Interfolio Faculty Information System addresses faculty development and academic workflows like recruitment, tenure, promotion, and periodic review.

Interfolio happy hour

Attending ACE 2018? On Monday, March 12, from 4:00-5:30 PM, we’re hosting a happy hour with complimentary drinks and snacks onsite at the conference. It’s a chance to talk about data and institutional research repositories from a faculty-focused perspective. If you’d like more information, come by Booth 501 or email events@interfolio.com.

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Webinar: The Faculty Information System (UK)

A conversation with Interfolio’s CEO on the future of university technology

Tuesday, February 27, 2018 / 3:00-4:00 PM GMT

This free webinar and Q&A introduces the faculty information system: a comprehensive category of technology specifically addressing academic staff, outlined by higher education leaders and brought to life by Interfolio.

You’ll hear from Interfolio CEO Andrew Rosen and the Interfolio UK team about the urgent challenges that have given rise to this development, and why Interfolio’s groundbreaking platform serves as the single source of truth for valuable, validated academic staff data and decision support on campus.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

What a faculty information system is (and what it is not)
How Interfolio’s two-way dialogue with clients informs our technology roadmap
Which kinds of academic institutions stand to benefit from Interfolio

Sneak peek: what’s a faculty information system?

It’s a single platform that supports the full scholarly and career lifecycle of academic staff.

For years, scholars’ work has gone unsupported by emerging technology and unrepresented in the university technology ecosystem. Until recently, academic staff at universities have largely gone without any tools suited to their role and institutions have lacked any technologies adequate to collect or study data on the scholars who drive the school’s mission.

While the outcomes of using a faculty information system overlap with existing systems—research and grant data management, for instance, or campus-wide ERPs—Interfolio is uniquely devoted to gathering the full picture of academic staff work, decisions, and data at your institution and providing a set of valuable tools to the individual academic staff member.

This webinar took place in February 2018.

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Webinar: Research Activity and the Faculty Information System

Wednesday, February 28 / 2:00-3:00 PM EST

Accommodating faculty research activity with the Interfolio Faculty Information System

This free webinar discusses how the Interfolio Faculty Information System accommodates faculty’s research activity, and features a presentation by higher education technology expert Dave Kochalko about the costs to universities of overlooking teaching, service, and the full picture of faculty work.

Unlike narrower systems that are essentially structured around only one aspect of faculty work, Interfolio empowers the institution to study and support:

Federally funded research
Research supported in other ways
Creative productions
Teaching
Conference presentations
Committee service
Any other kind of professional activity in which faculty engage

In addition, the webinar includes a product demo of the Interfolio Faculty Information System and Q&A at the end.

This free webinar includes:

Some research about the costs of letting large areas of faculty work go untracked and unsupported
A differentation between managing faculty information and simply managing research information
A demo of relevant portions of the Interfolio Faculty Information System

About our speaker

Dave Kochalko is an experienced leader in academic technology. In addition to years spent in making information solutions technology available to higher education, he is a co-founder of ORCID, a global non-profit organization working to ensure every researcher is recognized for their work.

This webinar took place in February 2018.

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Conference: AAC&U 2018 Annual Meeting

January 24-27, 2018 / Washington, DC

SESSION | Autumn Reed, Ph. D. (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) + Andrew Rosen (Interfolio)

Best Practices in Minority Faculty Recruitment & Retention, Part 2: The Role of Technology in University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Practices for Inclusive Excellence in Faculty Hiring

Thursday, January 25, 4:15-5:30 pm

At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities, Interfolio is hosting a concurrent session with Autumn Reed, Ph.D., Program Coordinator for Faculty Diversity Initiatives at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (an Interfolio client). She’ll have a conversation with Interfolio CEO Andrew Rosen about the role that technology has played in UMBC’s pursuit of inclusive excellence via the faculty hiring process.

In the past, Autumn did a webinar with Interfolio discussing the ways in which UMBC’s adoption of Interfolio Faculty Search for all faculty hiring has empowered her to keep the university’s faculty diversity and inclusion initiatives on track.

Interfolio happy hour

Attending AAC&U 2018? On Thursday, January 25, from 5:30-7:00 PM, we’re hosting a happy hour with complementary drinks and snacks onsite at the conference. It’s a chance to talk about how faculty-focused technology can assist with faculty work, decisions, and data at AAC&U member institutions. If you’d like more information, come by the Interfolio booth or email events@interfolio.com.

Got questions or thoughts? Come by, or line up an informal one-on-one conversation about your institution’s needs and our 2018 faculty technology roadmap.

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Client Webinar: Introducing the 2018 Roadmap and the Faculty Information System

A conversation with Interfolio’s CEO on the future of faculty technology

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 / 1:00-2:00 PM EST / REGISTER

Please join us for a free webinar and Q&A with Interfolio CEO Andrew Rosen and VP of Product Strategy Ben Wang to introduce our 2018 roadmap and debut the first of several releases that will comprise our faculty information system (FIS): a comprehensive category of academic technology outlined by our clients (you!).

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

What’s coming in 2018
How Interfolio’s two-way dialogue with clients informs our technology roadmap
What a faculty information system is (and what it is not)

We’ll also discuss the urgent challenges that have given rise to this development, and why Interfolio’s groundbreaking faculty information system will serve as the single source of truth for valuable, validated faculty data and support on campus.

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Webinar: Introducing the Faculty Information System (North America)

A conversation with Interfolio’s CEO on the future of faculty technology

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 / 2:30-3:30 PM EST

This free webinar and Q&A introduces the faculty information system (FIS), a comprehensive category of academic technology outlined by higher education leaders and brought to life by Interfolio.

You’ll hear from Interfolio CEO Andrew Rosen and other leaders at Interfolio about the urgent challenges that have given rise to this development, and why Interfolio’s groundbreaking faculty information system will serve as the single source of truth for valuable, validated faculty data and decision support on campus.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

What a faculty information system is (and what it is not)
How Interfolio’s two-way dialogue with clients informs our technology roadmap
Which kinds of academic institutions stand to benefit from the faculty information system

Sneak peek: what’s a faculty information system?

It’s a single platform that supports the full scholarly and career lifecycle of faculty members.

For years, faculty work has gone unsupported by emerging technology and unrepresented in the university technology ecosystem. Until recently, faculty have largely gone without any tools suited to their role and institutions have lacked any technologies adequate to collect or study data on the faculty who drive the school’s mission.

While the outcomes of using a faculty information system overlap with existing systems—research and grant data management, for instance, or campus-wide ERPs—the Interfolio FIS is uniquely devoted to the gathering full picture of faculty work, decisions, and data at your institution and providing a set of valuable tools to the individual faculty member.

This webinar took place in January 2018.

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