A strong brand and consistent hiring processes can help institutions recruit and hire top academic talent, write two University of Texas at Austin administrators.
Henry Tijerina III and Joey Williams talk to Education Dive about their campus’s challenges with faculty recruiting and hiring. Hear about their unique approach—to think like marketers—and how it helped them accomplish their campus’s talent and diversity goals.
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October 3, 2019 — Washingtonian magazine announced Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio, as one of the Tech Titans of 2019. The article recognizes Washington’s top tech leaders—“the most important and innovative people in Washington’s digital economy.” CEO since 2015, Rosen has led Interfolio through the company’s acquisition by Insight Ventures, expanded its international reach with the acquisition of Cambridge-based company Researchfish, and created a holistic Faculty Information System to serve every major lifecycle moment in the life of a scholar. Prior to Interfolio, Rosen was at Blackboard, EAB, and MicroStrategy.
In response to the award, Rosen states “I am honored to be among these illustrious peers who are leading DC and the nation in their respective technology fields. Thank you to the Washingtonian for their recognition of the importance of education technology and how Interfolio drives innovation in the space.”
WASHINGTON, DC – August 22, 2019 – Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), a leading global business school, today announced a new initiative to use technology to standardize its faculty hiring process and improve faculty recruitment and development. Through a partnership with Interfolio, creator of the first Faculty Information System, SAIF will provide faculty with technology uniquely designed to support every stage in the faculty lifecycle, from hiring through tenure.
Interfolio’s Faculty Search will power SAIF’s annual recruiting for junior faculty, allowing SAIF to systemize their process with a trusted, secure system used by faculty around the world—streamlining the hiring process for both job applicants and administrators, while also greatly reducing the burden on administrative staff.
As one of the top ranked business schools in the world, SAIF recognizes that the faculty hiring experience is essential for recruiting top faculty.
“We have always recognized that faculty are our #1 asset,” stated Professor Chun Chang, Executive Dean of SAIF. “Interfolio will help us continue to put faculty first and retain our essential junior faculty. We want to prioritize these faculty members and ensure they have a positive experience with us starting from the hiring process. Additionally, Interfolio will help ensure we are attracting the right candidates for our institution, nurturing their development, and strengthening SAIF.”
“The best business schools around the world recognize the central role of faculty in their success and are increasingly looking to support their faculty by streamlining the hiring, review, promotion, and activity reporting processes,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio. “We are pleased to provide the leading faculty information system to institutions such as SAIF, London Business School, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, and the Frankfurt School of Finance.”
About Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
SAIF’s mission is to become a world class institution of research and advanced learning in finance and management. Committed to developing top talent and cutting-edge knowledge, with a focus on Chinese markets and their global connections, SAIF’s world-renowned faculty, with over 60 members, is drawn from both academia and industry from around the world. SAIF has developed international collaborations with world-class business schools, including the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the MIT Sloan School of Management, University of California, Berkeley, Imperial College London, and Arizona State University. SAIF is among the youngest AACSB-accredited business schools in the world; AACSB accreditation represents the highest standards in business education and has only been earned by less than 5 percent of the world’s business schools. In 2018, SAIF MF program continues to hold the No. 1 position in the Financial Times‘ annual ranking of the best MF programs in Asia and is ranked No. 10 in the world. For more information, please visit http://en.saif.sjtu.edu.cn/.
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 300 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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – AUGUST 12, 2019 – Interfolio, Washington D.C.-based developer of the popular faculty information system used by hundreds of higher education institutions worldwide, today announced the acquisition of Research Fish, a Cambridge, UK-based firm that enables academics, funders, research centers, and higher education institutions to track and demonstrate the impact and value of research to their governing bodies and stakeholders, as well as to those ultimately benefiting from the difference that the research makes.
The combination of the two researcher-centric technologies will enable institutions to explain and share the impact of academic research with a diverse cross section of stakeholders, including policymakers, private foundations, university boards, and grantmakers. Both companies are leaders in academic technology, who have supported the research, scholarship, and teaching impact of nearly one million individual scholars worldwide.
“Institutional academic research has profound benefits not just to students and institutions, but to the communities their institutions serve—locally, and around the world. While the benefits of scholarship are well understood within the academy, demonstrating the often far-reaching impact of faculty can present a complex, multifaceted challenge,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio. “This is about providing scholars and institutions with tools that enable them to seamlessly capture outcomes data that matters to institutional leaders and public and private donors.”
Founded in 2012, Research Fish integrates data from more than 17,000 unique sources to provide individual researchers, institutions, and grantmakers with a holistic view of research outputs and activity. Interfolio’s Faculty Information System enables institutions of higher education to track and curate faculty research, teaching, and service activities. More than 700,000 scholars worldwide already use Interfolio’s Dossier to track and manage academic materials. More than 100,000 researchers have found jobs, and 80,000 have completed a review or gained a promotion using Interfolio in the last 20 years.
“In an era of scarce public resources and competing research priorities, understanding research and being able to demonstrate the impact that arises from it is a priority for funders, charities, researchers, and institutional leaders alike,” said Sean Newell, CEO of Research Fish. “We believe joining Interfolio will help us deliver more robust services to our existing client base, as well as new global products that combine the best of both company’s offerings. Together we share a vision to cultivate a global standard for excellence in higher education information technology and research impact assessment, which makes us incredibly excited about the potential of this partnership.”
The entire Research Fish team—headquartered in Cambridge, England—will join Interfolio, and all current Research Fish clients will continue to receive the same level of service and support, while benefiting from new capabilities from Interfolio’s suite of academic and scholarly technology systems.
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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 Research Fish:
Based in Cambridge in the UK and founded in 2012, Research Fish is a technology company that helps research funders and universities track and measure research impact (publications, citations, patents, media mentions, jobs created, policies influenced, products launched, communities impacted, etc.). Research Fish makes it easy for people to gather, present, explain, and evaluate the academic, societal, and economic impact of research funded around the world. For more information, please visit www.researchfish.net.
June 27, 2019 — The Hechinger Report published an op-ed on how to close the gap in diversity between an institution’s student body and its faculty, co-authored by Interfolio CEO Andrew Rosen and Autumn Reed, Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
The article is grounded in current demographic data of faculty from the National Center for Education Statistics. Rosen and Reed assert that academic leaders cannot simply blame the “pipeline” (defined as a lack of qualified candidates), but rather must make faculty diversity a key priority for their college or university.
In her current role, Reed focuses on faculty diversity initiatives, and she has been instrumental in putting into place practices and policies for hiring committees in particular. Additionally, UMBC implemented Interfolio’s Faculty Search to make the hiring processes consistent across campus. Interfolio also enables UMBC to “compare the diversity of a job applicant pool for a given opening to that job’s national diversity average.” She speaks to the importance of inclusive job advertisements, as well as the necessity for proactive recruitment.
As Reed and Rosen conclude: “Colleges and universities cannot allow such disparities to exist between the diversity of their student bodies and their faculty. Institutions must continue their efforts to widen access for minority students. But as they do so, they must also remember that providing equitable outcomes for those students requires that they are able to interact with, and learn from, a faculty that is similarly representative.”
The Hechinger Report is a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Learn more at hechingerreport.org. Article contents © The Hechinger Report.
HOUSTON, TX – June 18, 2019 – The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, part of the University of Houston, today announced a new partnership with Interfolio to provide robust reporting capabilities for its faculty activities, providing the college with unprecedented insight into faculty needs.
Interfolio’s Faculty Activity Reporting module will provide a new system of record and will centralize faculty activity reporting into one digital hub, replacing the college’s previous tools. The need for specific technology to support the college’s faculty became apparent after the McGovern College of the Arts was founded in 2016, uniting the performing and visual arts at the University of Houston.
The new platform will provide faculty a streamlined experience of activity reporting, which can often be a burdensome process that distracts from teaching, research, and service. Interfolio was selected by McGovern College of the Arts due to the platform’s user-friendly interface, flexibility with file types and sizes, and brand recognition.
“Our faculty are not only the drivers of the intellectual life of the institution, but also key to the success of our students. Investing in faculty success and development enables us to capture all of the unique teaching and scholarly accomplishments of our college faculty, understand their needs as educators, and devote resources where they are needed most,” said Beckham Dossett, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the McGovern College of the Arts. “Historically, we had to rely on faculty reporting systems that were outdated and not designed to accommodate the creative work of performing and visual artists. We had to find a new way.”
“Today’s faculty members are shouldering complex responsibilities like never before. Institutions need every tool at their disposal to champion the faculty workforce and empower them with the time and technology to focus on academic and teaching passions,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio. “We’re delighted to help the University of Houston’s McGovern College of the Arts showcase their faculty accomplishments to the campus, greater Houston, and the broader arts community.”
About the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts
The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston is a dynamic home of creativity and collaboration in one of America’s most artistically vibrant and culturally diverse cities. Bringing together the performing and visual arts entities at the University of Houston, the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts has the ability to harness the power of the arts to ultimately impact our world. Our award-winning, internationally-distinguished faculty provides top-quality instruction to the talented, emerging student artists from more than thirty programs of study. The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts seeks to positively impact the community and to empower our students to use their talents to change the world. For more information, please visit http://www.uh.edu/kgmca/.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 4, 2019 – The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, an award-winning private business school with respected faculty from across the world, today announced the adoption of Interfolio’s Faculty Search module to support a strategic initiative to recruit the best international faculty.
“Our school is actively adding new faculty from across the globe,” said Denis Konanchuk, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. “Partnering with Interfolio will provide a consistent approach to hiring faculty, which will then influence the development of new processes for the entire school. It will also significantly increase the amount of time we can spend on new initiatives, rather than on administrative work.”
Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO’s previous hiring process lacked a standardized process, placing a significant administrative burden on under-resourced staff. Interfolio Faculty Search — built specifically for the nuances of faculty hiring and the shared governance model of higher education — will improve the hiring experience for administrators and faculty, as well as applicants.
Using Faculty Search, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO will have one digital system to post, collect, and organize applications and confidential materials and communicate with hiring committee members.
“We are pleased to add Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO to our existing partnerships with international business schools, including the London School of Business, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and IESE Business School,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio. “The use of Interfolio across disciplines and across the globe speaks to the versatility and configurability of our products, which are focused on improving not only the faculty experience but also the administrative experience—especially when reporting to accreditation organizations like the AACSB.”
About the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is one of the leading private business schools in Russia and the CIS. It was founded in 2006 by a group of partners including Russian and international companies as well as individuals. Our goal is to foster an open platform of academic exchange, attract world-class professors and researchers, develop Russian experts, explore and tackle issues at the overlap of academia and business practices, and generate new ideas. We strive to create relevant knowledge and expertise for those who rely on Russia and emerging markets. With over 150 professors, the School offers degree programs for MBA and Executive MBAs, as well as continuing education for a variety of audiences. For more information about SKOLKOVO, please visit https://school.skolkovo.ru/en/.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 29, 2019 – Interfolio, creator of the first-ever Faculty Information System, and Explorance, the leading Learning Journey Analytics (LJA) solution provider, announced today a new partnership to provide institutions with a holistic view of their faculty’s teaching, research, and service activity within a single interface.
“Explorance’s adaptive, automated course evaluation products are leading-edge and clearly best-in-class technologies—they set the standard for in-the-moment, purpose-built evaluations that benefit both students and faculty,” says Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio. “We’ve been consistently impressed with the team at Explorance and the commitment to faculty experience that they share, as we are both clearly aligned in supporting faculty and academic success by providing insightful, impactful, and actionable information to those that we serve.”
The integration will provide institutional leaders with course evaluation feedback within Interfolio’s platform for faculty information and scholarly data, thereby fundamentally changing how learning evaluations are leveraged by individual faculty and their institutions to determine impact. Instead of manually extracting and analyzing important course impact data against other faculty information, colleges and universities will save time by viewing embedded learning evaluation data directly from Interfolio’s faculty activity reporting product. Further, faculty and university leaders will be able to leverage critical student engagement and course evaluation metrics in upcoming promotion and tenure reviews, ensuring all relevant data is included in these crucial processes.
“Explorance’s Blue has been the University of Pennsylvania’s solution for course evaluations since 2009,” said Rob Nelson, Ph.D., Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. “The ability to bring those data into the collection of information we will provide through Interfolio’s faculty activity reporting technology is an important development in our partnership with both Explorance and Interfolio.”
The teams will demonstrate the integration at Explorance’s annual Blue Note global user conference in August 2019. For further information about the data that Interfolio’s clients can expect to view in their interface, check out Explorance’s fact-based decision making analytics page.
“Explorance is always seeking for ways to enhance the experience of EdTech clients,” says Samer Saab, CEO of Explorance. “Our collaboration with Interfolio, the leader in Faculty Information System solutions, will enhance the unified experience and offer the highest quality analytics for higher education institutions.”
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 300 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 Explorance
Explorance, a Learning Journey Analytics provider, supports organizations in making the right decisions with fact-based feedback data. Through its offerings, Blue and Metrics that Matter, Explorance is at the heart of the learning organization’s continuous improvement strategies. By assessing needs, expectations, and competencies, organizations can analyze with the full picture in mind and monitor improvement over time.
Founded in 2003, Explorance is headquartered in Montreal with business units in Chicago, Amsterdam, and Melbourne. Explorance’s clients span a variety of learning organizations from various segments including academia, enterprise, consulting, and government across the globe. Explorance is proud to name 25% of QS 100 higher education institutions and 35% of Fortune 500 corporations as its clients. Since 2014, Explorance has been consecutively ranked as a top employer by the Great Places to Work Institute®.
WASHINGTON, D.C – May 1, 2019 – The EdTech Awards 2019 announce Interfolio as a winner for “Hiring Solution” in its “Cool Tool” category.
Now in its 9th year, the US-based EdTech Awards is the largest and most competitive recognition program in education technology, recognizing the biggest names in the ed tech ecosystem–which now numbers more than 15,000 companies.
Organized by EdTech Digest, the EdTech Awards recognizes cool tools, inspiring leaders, and innovative trendsetters across the Higher Education, K-12, and Skills and Workforce sectors.
Learn more about The EdTech Awards and view the full list of the 2019 winners.
LAS VEGAS, NV – April 30, 2019 – The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), today announced the launch of an ambitious new initiative designed to bring critical academic processes and scholarly activity tracking into a central digital environment.
Through a partnership with Interfolio, UNLV faculty and administrators can now utilize the Interfolio platform, which includes a full suite of faculty-focused technology to support every stage in the faculty lifecycle, from hiring through tenure.
“As a public institution, it’s critical for us to demonstrate the major economic and social impact that we have on our community, and the best way to do that is to showcase the work of our faculty,” said Tondra De, director of faculty affairs at UNLV. “The Faculty Information System helps us better quantify and communicate the immense impact that our faculty have on their students, within their professional disciplines, and on our community and state.”
The Interfolio system streamlines common tasks that previously required multiple systems to complete, which lightens the administrative load on faculty and frees up valuable time for teaching, research, and service.
“UNLV is a large, diverse institution and its faculty are known across the country for their teaching and research expertise,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio. “We’re proud to partner with UNLV to provide their dedicated faculty with tools that not only give them more time for teaching and research, but also surface their work for the greater good of the university, community, and state.”
About University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Founded in 1957, UNLV is a doctoral-degree-granting institution comprised of approximately 31,000 students and more than 3,900 faculty and staff. To date, UNLV has conferred more than 136,000 degrees, producing more than 120,000 alumni around the world. UNLV is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a R1 research university with very high research activity. The university is committed to recruiting and retaining top students and faculty, educating the region’s diversifying population and workforce, driving economic activity through increased research and community partnerships, and creating an academic health center for Southern Nevada with the launch of a new UNLV School of Medicine. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in Southern Nevada. For more information on UNLV, visit www.unlv.edu.
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.
