Requesting, storing and sending letters of reference using Interfolio’s Dossier 

July 9, 2018 / 2:00-3:00 PM EDT 

Are you applying to medical school or preparing for the job market?

At the beginning of July, we hosted a free webinar with Q&A outlining the process and benefits of using Interfolio’s Dossier to manage your letters of recommendation. If you need to ensure your letters remain confidential and are error-free before sending them, we can help.

This webinar was fairly straightforward. We introduced the subscription tiers, product, the multiple features, a demo on “how to” request a letter and then demonstrated how to send a letter from your account.

Why Interfolio?

For users with active Dossier Deliver subscriptions, we now perform a quality check on all confidential letters of recommendation as soon as they enter your account. Literally, we have a team of humans that take a look at the document quality of your letter, and then notify you AND your letter writer of any issues.

The webinar covered:

• Requesting a letter. You can request confidential and non-confidential letters using a free Dossier account. The product will also send reminders to your letter writer.
• Performing a quality check on your letter. Once you upgrade to a paid Dossier Deliver account, Team Interfolio reviews your letters for errors such as:
  • We check for a signature.
  • We make sure there’s an official letterhead.
  • We ensure the file uploaded is in fact a letter.
  • We verify the letter bears both your name and the letter writer’s name.
  • We establish the letter is legible.
• Sending a delivery. Once a letter is in your account, we show you how to send it.

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.

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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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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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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Implementing a Productive Faculty Data Hub

Wednesday, November 29 / 2:00-3:00 PM EST

How are research universities today making faculty activity reporting more manageable? For one great example, let’s look at Miami University in Ohio.

By adopting Interfolio Faculty180, Miami has in recent years transitioned their whole faculty activity reporting and faculty data management process into an online environment—substantially reducing redundant data entry, and freeing up a significant number of hours every academic year for all faculty and many staff members. You’ll get the story in this free webinar and Q&A with Miami’s James Oris, Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate School and University Distinguished Professor.

In the webinar, we’ll hear from Associate Provost Oris about the internal process by which Miami identified what they needed out of a faculty activity reporting platform, assessed the Faculty180 product, and got up and running. The institution is continuing to expand the usage of Faculty180 on campus to new user groups into next year.

Why this webinar?

Historically, the process of producing annual faculty activity reports been a time-consuming, labor-intensive process. But it’s almost 2018. Universities are increasingly recognizing the value of working smarter—rather than harder—when it comes to managing, distributing, and reviewing the data about faculty professional activities contained in these kinds of reports.

In addition, Miami University is part of Interfolio’s Product Advisory Committee (PAC), a group of experienced, forward-thinking leaders in academic technology that works with Interfolio to inform the kind of faculty technology available to higher education in the future. Read more about what we’re learning from the PAC here.

You’ll learn:

• What drove academic leadership at Miami to seek a consolidated faculty activity reporting platform
• What steps they went through in the timeline, from beginning their search to today
• What level of resources they estimate they’ve saved and will save in the future

This webinar took place in November 2017.

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Friday, November 3 / 2:30-3:00 PM EDT 

Are you writing or sending letters of recommendation as part of an application to a faculty job, fellowship, graduate internship, graduate program, or other professional opportunity in higher education? Are you thinking about getting a Dossier Deliver subscription and have questions about what you get?

In this free 30-minute webinar, you’ll learn how to use Dossier to handle letters of recommendation alleviates time and stress for both requesters and letter writers.

Please send your questions, comments and feedback to: events@interfolio.com

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Thursday, September 7 / 2:00-2:30 PM EDT

Are you seeking faculty jobs, fellowships, graduate internships, admission to graduate study, or other professional opportunities in higher education? Do you already have an Interfolio Dossier account?

In this free 30-minute webinar, find out how to get the most out of your Dossier—both as a current seeker and while you’re employed. We’ll give a tour of Dossier, showing what you can do with the free version and what you get with the $48 annual Dossier Deliver package (answer: 50 deliveries included).

In the webinar, we’ll also show:

• What tools Dossier gives you to store and categorize your own academic materials in your Dossier
• How to build and maintain collections in your account for different career needs, and what you can do with them
• Good practices for sending and managing your Interfolio recommendation requests
• The difference between applying for positions hosted through Interfolio (free for everyone) compared with sending email, mail, or web deliveries (requires Dossier Deliver)

Got a specific question about using Interfolio’s free Dossier or Dossier Deliver? Please contact us at help@interfolio.com or at (877) 997-8807.

This webinar took place in September 2017.

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Diversity Reporting in Faculty Recruitment

Thursday, May 25, 2017 / 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

How do leading universities collect and study faculty recruitment data when they’re serious about achieving strategic goals like faculty diversity?

If they think like the University of Notre Dame, they choose academic recruitment software that’s built for higher ed and easy for everyone to use.

Notre Dame switched to Interfolio for recruitment in 2014, and since then, they’ve started to become a model of how the smartest universities are strategically approaching their faculty search efforts.

In this webinar and Q&A, we interview Pamela Nolan Young, Director of Academic Diversity and Inclusion in the Office of the Provost, about her experience using Interfolio’s platform in her work. We chat with her about the value of easy reporting on applicant pool statistics and how she uses Interfolio for diversity reporting at Notre Dame.

The webinar includes a Q&A portion at the end, and a brief demo of Interfolio’s technology—so you can see what we’re talking about.

This webinar took place in May 2017.

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Webinar Series: Liberal Arts Colleges and New Faculty Technology

Tuesday, April 25, 2017 / 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

The first installment in our free webinar series focusing on liberal arts colleges! Find out how these smaller institutions are pursuing diversity goals, improving committee logistics, and gaining buy-in with the help of technology oriented around the faculty role.

If you’re seeking to meaningfully increase the diversity of your institution’s faculty body in the long term, what tangible resources and tools are available to help?

In this free webinar and Q&A session, learn how the Gettysburg College-based Consortium for Faculty Diversity helps member schools—and how they address their reporting and recruitment needs in order to carry out their mission. We hear from Jack Ryan (Gettysburg College) and Bruce King (St. Olaf College), who play leadership roles in the Consortium.

The Consortium, an association of several dozen liberal arts institutions, offers dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships to scholars who will contribute to increasing the diversity of Consortium member colleges. By funding scholars from underrepresented minorities to spend time researching and teaching at small liberal arts colleges across the country, the Consortium offers these candidates a firsthand look at what makes working at a liberal arts college so viable, rewarding, and nurturing as a faculty member.

To manage, sort, and track the applicant pool for these fellowships, the Consortium relies on Interfolio’s Faculty Search recruitment platform. Relevant to any academic institution seeking to improve faculty diversity, Interfolio’s platform includes a wealth of tools that enable diversity officers and committees to:

• Collect Equal Employment Opportunity survey responses from 100% of applicants through the platform.
• Generate real-time reports on applicant pools at any administrative level (as an authorized user) with a few clicks.
• Track the effectiveness of different advertisement venues for jobs.

You’ll Find Out:

1. How exactly the Consortium for Faculty Diversity benefits member institutions, and what’s involved in working with the Consortium.
2. Why the Consortium sought a more consolidated, usable system for collecting applications and maintaining a pool of candidates.
3. How the Consortium’s work has changed as result of adopting Interfolio’s system.

This webinar took place in April 2017.

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