Tuesday, June 25, 2019 / 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

At U.S. research universities, where does faculty data management fit into technology choices?

In this free webinar and Q&A, hear an interview with Bill McCreary, Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer at the University of Toledo. We’ll talk about faculty data availability, its impact on the university’s research enterprise, and the university’s decision to use the Interfolio faculty activity reporting module.

One of 14 state universities in Ohio, The University of Toledo is a student-centered, public metropolitan research university with 20,500 students. The University of Toledo and the Medical University of Ohio merged July 2006 to form the third-largest public university operating budget in the state. The University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission.

The webinar includes:

• A conversation with Bill about the stakes and place of faculty data management in the University of Toledo’s operations
• A live demonstration of the faculty-friendly Interfolio module for activity reporting
• A discussion of Interfolio’s growing capacity to integrate with other existing sources of data about your faculty’s work

About our guest

Read Mr. McCreary’s full bio on the University of Toledo website here.

May 29th, 2019 / 2:00 PM BST & IST / 3:00 CEST / 9:00 AM ET

How are you currently managing the review and promotion of academic staff at your institution?

Managing reviews of your academic staff through conventional systems built for businesses (or through a home-built system) can often be arduous and time-consuming in a higher education context, and can leave academics unclear about requirements for their own reviews.

Even more routine reviews of annual production and workload of an academic staff member, or attempting to locate a single central list of all formal promotion cases currently under way, can become an administrative headache.

More and more universities are going digital with review and promotion workflows.

In today’s universities worldwide, academic and human resources leaders increasingly recognize the need to move academic promotion and review workflows to an online platform that is configurable to their needs. It’s all but necessary for modern universities who wish to simplify the administrative work associated with these reviews, while also understanding their academic composition, and to assess aspects like equitability and representation from a birds-eye view.

Interfolio is the first technology company to successfully engage both academic and professional services staff around academic information.

In use at over 300 institutions worldwide, Interfolio modules for academic promotion, data, and hiring are eminently adaptable to suit different any institution’s requirements or workflows.

In this free webinar, you’ll learn:

• Who is Interfolio? How do our products fit into the lifecycle of academic staff?
• What are the advantages to moving processes around the academic lifecycle online? How have other institutions done it successfully?
• What does the end result look like? We will provide a short demo of what review and promotion can look like at your institution.

March 27th, 2019 / 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT/ 4:00 PM GMT

Are you using binders to organize your faculty review, promotion, and tenure process?

Faculty advancement can often encompass a wide range of processes, from tenure, annual reviews, and faculty promotions to less frequent requests like sabbatical leave. Even simply reviewing the annual workload of your faculty members can be logistically difficult when you are using a paper-based system for organization.

Stop wasting paper—digitize your process for faculty advancement

Institutions are increasingly choosing to go digital by using Interfolio for faculty review, promotion, and tenure. It’s the only technology platform on the market devoted to managing complex academic reviews—and it’s built specifically to address the needs of faculty throughout the process.

About Interfolio

Interfolio is a global company serving over 300 institutions worldwide. Our products can be adapted to suit different institutional requirements. This webinar will use US higher education nomenclature and examples, but Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure can be adapted to any market.

In this free webinar, you’ll learn:

• What makes faculty advancement processes so difficult? We will show you how Interfolio help simplify workflows, and reduce the dependency on paper-based systems.
• The advantages to moving faculty review, promotion and tenure online, and how other institutions have done it successfully.
• What does an improved workflow look like? We will give concrete examples, and a demonstration of what Interfolio Review, Promotion & Tenure can look like at your institution.

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 / 1:00-2:00 PM CDT / 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

How are human resources offices in higher education making hiring easier, more equitable, and better tracked?

In this free webinar and Q&A presented in collaboration with the Wisconsin CUPA-HR Chapter, get an introduction to academic hiring through Interfolio—and hear about how the Human Resources office at Albion College (Michigan) uses Interfolio for both faculty and staff hiring.

Find out why more and more colleges and universities today are running hiring processes through Interfolio—including not only the distinctive challenges around new faculty hiring, but also other kinds of hires as well.

The webinar includes:

• An open interview with Catherine Lessnau, Associate Director, Human Resources at Albion College, about where Interfolio falls in the hiring process at Albion, and who uses it for what
• A brief orientation to the Interfolio platform, and a look at how it interacts with other campus systems, such as HR and ERP systems
• A live tour of the Interfolio module for academic hiring

As a companion piece to the webinar, you may wish to download our free technology selection guide, System Considerations for Faculty Hiring.

Thursday, 07 February 2019 / 10:00-11:00 AM (AEDT)

How can Australian and New Zealand universities better support academic promotion and career advancement?

Find out about the struggles of academics seeking promotion in Australian and New Zealand universities—and how university human resources and academic affairs offices can better support them—in this free webinar and Q&A from Edalex and Interfolio.

You’ll learn:

• Why the increasing rigidity of academic professional evaluation standards is harmful to the academic mission
• Which structural decisions universities can make to better empower academics to tell their own, full professional story
• How the Interfolio Faculty Information System specifically equips universities to increase transparency and clarity around academic promotion

Why this webinar?

In recent years, Australian and New Zealand institutions of higher education have begun to impose increasingly rigid and oversimplified methods of professional assessment upon their academic staff members. When the highly qualified, specialised academics employed by the institution take stock of their prospects for job security and long-term stability, they increasingly report feeling evaluated against a managerial standard that neglects the full value that they provide—to the institution, to the students, and to the community of which the institution is a part.

More about Interfolio and academic information

Based in Washington, D.C., Interfolio operates the groundbreaking Faculty Information System—a modular online platform for managing the work, data, and materials associated with the full scholar lifecycle. Increasingly popular worldwide, the Faculty Information System is currently in use at over 300 academic institutions and grows in scope every year.

Faculty Information and Interfolio in 2019

Thursday, January 31, 2019 / 1:00-2:00 PM EST

What is the next chapter for the Faculty Information System?

This free webinar and Q&A lays out the new directions that academic technology company Interfolio will be taking in 2019. Interfolio operates the groundbreaking Faculty Information System by which over 300 academic institutions manage faculty activity data, promotion processes, and recruitment.

You’ll learn:

• Which recurring challenges in faculty information management have bubbled to the surface for Interfolio in 2019
• What product developments Interfolio will offer in 2019 to address these particular, widely felt challenges
• How your institution can join the community of Interfolio institutions and shape the forms that faculty data management takes in the future

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Easy Data Management for Scholars

On-Demand

How can academic institutions connect two of today’s forward-thinking academic technologies in a way that empowers scholars to tell their own professional stories?

This free webinar and Q&A showcases the capacity of the Interfolio Faculty Information System (FIS) to benefit both scholars and their institutions via integration with the many useful, existing academic data services out there today.

As a prominent example, we discuss Interfolio’s compatibility with ORCID—an international, interdisciplinary, open, non-proprietary, and not-for-profit organization providing individual researchers with:

• A persistent digital identifier that distinguishes them from other researchers
• A record that supports automatic links among all their professional activities

By using both the Interfolio FIS and ORCID together, your college or university can make it easy for faculty members to compile their academic profile and activity information—such as research, creative productions, courses taught, conferences attended, committee service, and more—together to serve both their own career needs and their employer’s data maintenance requirements.

The webinar includes a presentation on the widely felt challenges in academia that gave rise both to the Interfolio FIS and to ORCID, and a live demonstration of the two systems working together.

This webinar took place in December 2018.

Florida’s Faculty 500 and Interfolio Faculty Search

July 25, 2018 / 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

What’s different about faculty hiring versus staff hiring?

In this free webinar and Q&A with guests from the Human Resources office at the University of Florida, you’ll get a chance to learn about their distinctive faculty hiring strategies and how Interfolio fits in, and their recent adoption of Interfolio Faculty Search to manage faculty hiring across UF.

This webinar is mostly about UF’s story, but includes an Interfolio demo. A large portion is devoted to a presentation about UF’s current faculty hiring approach and their transition to a more strategic talent recruitment model. In the process, you’ll hear about why it was that they concluded faculty hiring was simply a different undertaking from general staff hiring, and sought out the right technology—Interfolio Faculty Search.

You’ll learn:

• What choices UF has made in their recruitment model to ensure the success of their Faculty 500 initiative
• Why HR at UF saw faculty buy-in for the technology as a key intervention in improving the faculty hiring process
• How the experience of applicants and committees fits into their comprehensive strategy around faculty hiring

This webinar took place in July 2018.

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