Combined company is in vanguard of expanding category dedicated to faculty information systems that empower equitable, informed, efficient decision-making.

Washington DC, January 12, 2017 – In a move aimed at transforming how higher education institutions make strategic decisions and manage labor-intensive duties in the faculty lifecycle, Interfolio, a pioneer in tech solutions for faculty hiring, promotion, tenure and governance, today announced its acquisition of DATA180, a recognized leader in tools for faculty-activity reporting. The joining of companies with a shared “faculty first” ethos and complementary services brings unparalleled value to a segment of higher education whose needs have been largely overlooked.

This development benefits higher education institutions, individual scholars and administrators and the ed-tech sector alike. It offers colleges and universities a single platform more powerful than either technology alone, as faculty data and analytics have greatest impact when integrated at important moments of faculty engagement, such as hiring and review. Further, faculty and administrators finally have seamless workflow technology to simplify multiple laborious tasks and assist in career advancement. Finally, combining two faculty-focused teams will provide opportunities to create additional technologies and bring attention to “faculty tech” that will spur growth and long-term investment in the category.

“Faculty, a critical and fundamental part of the academic ecosystem, has not been the focus of most ed-tech innovation and as a result many critical functions still rely on legacy-based manual processes that have not changed for decades,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO of Interfolio.

Rosen added that data services that focus on faculty will inevitably benefit the entire institution. “As a united force we shape a ‘must-have’ class of technology to help institutions better use data for decision making and reporting, improving transparency, promoting equity and enabling best-in-class efficiency around historically manual disparate processes. Additionally, this will allow faculty more time to teach, engage students and conduct research.”

Founded in 1999, Interfolio is led by an experienced ed-tech team and includes state-of-the-art products addressing the complex job-search and shared-governance workflows of hiring, promotion and tenure. DATA180, launched in 2002 by former academics, provides the most-advanced technology to help faculty harness the voluminous and varied activity data – from research publications to program evaluations – that must be reported regularly to administrators for internal reviews, compliance and accreditation, among other uses.

“Higher education tech is undergoing a profound shift as institutions awaken to the importance of faculty’s role as the linchpin of long-term institutional success,” says Adam Newman, managing partner of Tyton Partners, a consulting and financial advisory services firm. “We are seeing increased investment in solutions tailored to support faculty responsibilities and workflows, which will help administrators at all levels of higher education make smarter strategic decisions.”

A key outcome of “faculty tech” is to bring clarity to mission-critical actions that impact an institution’s economic or cultural foundation. For example, a large university with 1,000 faculty up for promotion or tenure each year, or numerous faculty committees convening on governance issues, loses considerable faculty and staff resources to tracking tens of thousands of required documents. Similarly, without capturing an accurate picture of trends, gaps, opportunities and candidates, it is difficult to deliver on diversity initiatives, which will adversely affect everything from recruitment to research funding.

“We use both Interfolio and DATA180 and see this partnership as an exciting development in simplifying and streamlining the work we ask faculty to do to help support the institution,” said Jessica Pesce, Associate Director of Faculty and Academic affairs at Boston College, one of 200 institutions served by Interfolio or DATA180. “This integration of products, knowledge, committed service, and dedication to change marks an important step toward a near future where holistic technology solutions assisting faculty is the norm.”

The acquisition is effective immediately; transition and integration activities will take place over the next several months, with completion anticipated mid-2017. There will be no staff reductions and DATA180’s leadership will maintain key roles in Interfolio.  L.K. Williams, Ph.D., DATA180’s CEO, will be vice president of academic engagement for Interfolio, and Scott Wymer, CIO/CTO, will be vice president of academic technology.

“As faculty members, we built DATA180 to resolve a problem we regularly experienced. We were overwhelmed by the amount of data we had to report, and the frequency and duplication of requests for the same information,” said L. K. Williams, president of DATA180. “Interfolio did something comparable for all aspects of the intensive career process, so we are enormously excited by what we can achieve together to grow a technology category designed for those dedicated to teaching tomorrow’s leaders.”

For more information, email Katherine Kelly, katherine.kelly@interfolio.com

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 26, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Interfolio, the pioneer in faculty-first higher education technology, has entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership with UCLA’s Opus to provide a critical component of committee workflow technology within the comprehensive Opus platform for faculty academic information.

Opus, UCLA’s internal faculty information system, is a rigorously researched homegrown system that supports data and processes around appointments, academic achievements, and salary information, among other sets of valuable faculty information. It has been in use successfully on the UCLA campus since 2014.

A critical requirement for the Opus product suite was the inclusion of workflow and committee tools with enough flexibility to map onto myriad complex use cases within the university. Interfolio’s ByCommittee platform, which accommodates the most complicated and sensitive use cases around review and tenure, was able to provide a missing piece of the Opus puzzle. Interfolio’s ByCommittee currently provides over 125 institutions with increased transparency, diversity, equity, and efficiency in academic decisions by and about faculty. Interfolio’s flexible integration architecture has allowed the Opus development team to maximize Interfolio’s faculty-first review and workflow support—integrating ByCommittee with their homegrown system—without undue burden on their development team. With the inclusion of Interfolio technology to support the workflow and collaboration of review committees, Opus will now be able to provide comprehensive support to UCLA faculty around workflows for appointments and academic review.

“We are excited for this collaboration,” said Meg Buzzi, Director of Opus at UCLA. “The Interfolio team are experts in this domain, and we are eager to amplify our current product and accelerate the campus timeline with these new features from ByCommittee.”

“Opus is the gold standard for forward-leaning, faculty-centric institutional technology,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “This partnership demonstrates that UCLA realizes strategic change at an institution only comes when you invest in faculty, and that leading higher education institutions generally are starting to recognize the importance of supporting mission-critical, shared governance work around the most important decisions on campus.”

About Interfolio

Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on the ecosystem of faculty work, decisions, and data in higher education. ByCommittee™ is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to facilitate academic decision support for faculty committees and provide an engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. Visit www.interfolio.com to learn more.

About UCLA’s Opus

Opus is the information system of record for all academic appointees at UCLA. Opus improves the efficiency and accuracy of academic review processes by replacing paper processes and siloed data with secure electronic profiles, convenient and automated review processes, and robust messaging and reporting features. Their focus on transparency, data fidelity, privacy, and data integration with campus and other sources make its strategy unique within higher education. Visit opus.ucla.edu to learn more. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 16, 2017 — Interfolio, leading provider of faculty-focused higher education technology, has re-launched its market-leading Dossier product as a subscription model with enhanced capabilities to better serve applicants on the academic job market. This release signals a pivotal addition to the Interfolio faculty information suite by elevating the faculty-owned Dossier to be a central component of Interfolio’s wider product offering: a sophisticated workflow and data management platform focused on powering faculty hiring, review, promotion, tenure, and appointments, as well as faculty activity reporting and research management.

Dossier, Interfolio’s initial product offering, was launched in 1999 to help scholarly job applicants aggregate and deliver materials—including confidential letters—to academic opportunities. Over time, Dossier grew to be the largest provider of digital application support in the market, serving over 200,000 in the 2017 application season thus far. Interfolio currently serves 1.7 million higher education users across its entire faculty technology platform.

“We’ve based this product on years of thoughtful research and engagement with the academic community. We understand what those on the job market are up against—how many applications they send in a year, how they need on-demand phone and email support, how confidential letters are requested and used—and wanted to re-invent Dossier to better fit their needs,” says Erin Mayhood, Dossier’s Product Manager.

In July 2017, Interfolio re-invented Dossier as a free platform-for-life for scholars to aggregate, organize, and store their personal and confidential materials for their entire academic career. When they’re ready to go on the market, scholars can upgrade to Dossier Deliver, a premium service that provides up to 50 deliveries of academic materials to opportunities like faculty jobs, post-docs, and fellowships for only $48. The product continues to build upon essential scholarly job application needs, like requesting, storing, and sending confidential letters, but adds distinctly academic functionality, such as thematic collections to support various application types and the ability to leverage Dossier materials for institutional reviews, such as tenure and promotion.

“Dossier is the center of our holistic faculty information system; we believe that if you center on faculty and put their experience and needs first, the entire higher education ecosystem benefits,” says Interfolio CEO, Andrew Rosen. “Dossier allows faculty to own their information, tell their unique story, and drive how it’s shared, no matter where they are in their academic lifecycle. With this release, we continue to deliver on our promise of a faculty information system that engages faculty and institutions at every stage of their scholarly path, from first application through tenure. Or, as a Provost recently explained, ‘from hire to retire.’”

About Interfolio

Interfolio is on a mission to create inspired user-centric products focused on the ecosystem of faculty work, decisions, and data in higher education. With modules for faculty recruitment and hiring; review, promotion, and tenure; and faculty activity reporting and accreditation, Interfolio is the first administrative enterprise SaaS solution to provide a faculty-first engine for intelligent decision making in higher education. Visit www.interfolio.com to learn more.

July 13, 2018

We are excited to announce that the University of Michigan, a major public research institution, has adopted Interfolio’s Faculty Search platform for use campus-wide to support faculty hiring processes, affirmative action, and EEO reporting. The adoption represents an expansion of the University’s relationship with Interfolio, evolving since 2014 from one school to five major academic units just prior to the current institution-wide expansion. Interfolio, a leader in faculty-focused higher education technology, will support UM in meeting its goals and responsibilities with regard to hiring academic personnel. (See also: Two University of Michigan Schools Adopt Interfolio for Faculty Activity Reporting and Workflows)

“The university is responsible for collecting and reporting affirmative action and EEO data, and it requires this information to be accurate and complete as a basis for supporting these goals,” said U-M’s lead for HR Records and Information Services. “We look for the tools that help us to get accurate data—quicker and more easily.”

The Faculty Search module is part of Interfolio’s Faculty Information System, the first technology platform in higher education dedicated to facilitating faculty engagement throughout the entire academic lifecycle. The University of Michigan joins over 200 institutions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia using Interfolio solutions to support faculty-focused hiring, review workflows, and activity data management.

“The University of Michigan is truly a leader in higher education, showing extraordinary vision and commitment to its mission of ‘preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values’ to benefit its service region and the world,” said Andrew Rosen, CEO, Interfolio. “We are excited to support the University in its efforts to make a significant and positive impact on faculty and institutional diversity initiatives.”

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.

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RELATED: University of Florida Invests in Interfolio Faculty Information System to Support Unprecedented Hiring Expansion / Two University of Michigan Schools Adopt Interfolio for Faculty Activity Reporting and Workflows

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.

Content originally published on data180.com. Learn more about Interfolio’s acquisition of Data180 here.

Morehead, KY, August 26, 2016 – DATA180 has been selected by North Central College to provide its FACULTY180 faculty activity reporting and evaluation system to administrators and faculty. North Central College will be using the FACULTY180 system to manage its online faculty evaluations.

“This fall, North Central College plans to implement FACULTY180 in an effort to build an efficient system for online faculty evaluations. Having a system that North Central can customize, along with receiving support from DATA180, will bring value to our institution,” said Jim Godo, Assistant Vice President for External Affairs and Special Assistant to the President at North Central College.

“We are excited about working with North Central College and its community of learners to implement our FACULTY180 solution. We appreciate the opportunity to work with an institution of higher learning that is focused on education programs in the liberal arts and sciences,” states L. K. Williams, President of DATA180.

FACULTY180 delivers state-of-the-art efficiencies for colleges and universities throughout the faculty information chain, from accreditation reporting to self-service analytics, evaluation processing to standardized workflow processes.

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