How Medical Schools Take Faculty Review Online

Thursday, November 17 / 2:00-3:00 PM EST

In our free November webinar and Q&A session, find out how the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado-Denver has successfully transitioned to a single online system for managing faculty review and promotion across all departments. We hear from Cheryl Welch, Director of Faculty Affairs, who brought the vision behind this new online approach. The webinar also includes a brief tour of Interfolio’s platform as it relates to the School of Medicine’s needs.

This webinar took place in November 2016.

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Thursday, October 20 / 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

Our October webinar brings you a free presentation and Q&A about some strategic methods our partner institution, Clemson University, employs to ensure they run well-informed, diverse, equitable faculty searches.

We speak with Josh Brown, Talent Acquisition Manager with Clemson’s Office of Human Resources, about a few recent recruitment strategies he’s helped get rolling with the help of Interfolio’s ByCommittee. In the webinar, Josh lays out some of Clemson’s goals and ongoing challenges, and goes on to cover aspects like “passive” recruitment, lean analysis, effective ways to use social media, and what Clemson’s gained from the transition to new technology.

You’ll find out:

• Why Clemson’s faculty are enthusiastic about using Interfolio’s ByCommittee platform to manage their searches for new colleagues
• How Clemson enables its committees to strategically advertise faculty positions with reliable information gathered via Interfolio Faculty Search
• In what ways Clemson has widened their talent pool and engaged in “passive” recruiting by collecting applications through Interfolio
• What kinds of manual work involved in recruitment Clemson has been able to take off its staff’s plate

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September 21, 2016 / 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

In our September webinar, we’re pleased to shine a light on one of our campus partners, the University of Texas at Austin, and the work they’ve done integrating Interfolio Faculty Search platform into their technical ecosystem. The webinar includes a Q&A portion for other schools who might be curious about improving the flow of faculty data between campus technologies.

We speak with Henry Tijerina III, Web Developer with UT’s Office of the Executive Vice President & Provost. Henry is the mind behind UT’s public job board for faculty positions, an in-house development that automatically pulls information from Interfolio about open academic positions. Since 2014, UT has used Interfolio Faculty Search platform to manage their faculty recruitment process, from advertisement to hire. With Henry’s help, the university is becoming more and more effective at seamlessly and securely sharing information between UT’s in-house systems, Interfolio Faculty Search, and other 3rd-party technology.

Joining Henry is Interfolio’s Vice President for Product and Technology, Scott Varho. Scott oversees the teams that design and build our academic software, striving to ensure Interfolio brings out the right technology at the right time in the right way. Scott keeps a close eye on what problems need solving on our partner campuses, what other systems universities are using, and the best ways for different tools to cooperate.

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Achieving Faculty Search Diversity with Faculty Search

August 25, 2016 / 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

The University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) is known nationally as a model for diversity in its student body, but in recent years it has worked to become a model for faculty diversity as well.

We hosted a presentation and Q&A session with Autumn Reed, Ph.D., Program Coordinator for Faculty Diversity Initiatives in the UMBC Provost’s Office, on practical methods to increase faculty diversity in the recruitment process. Since UMBC began conducting searches through Interfolio Faculty Search, Dr. Reed and her colleagues have gained continuous, reliable data on which to evaluate the university’s progress toward its formal faculty diversity commitments.

In addition to Dr. Reed’s presentation, this webinar includes a brief demonstration of Interfolio (under 10 minutes) and a Q&A session. You’ll find out:

• How UMBC uses Interfolio Faculty Search to foster consistency in recruitment standards—including explicit review criteria, blind review, and more.
• How Interfolio Faculty Search enables UMBC to collect Equal Employment Opportunity data on virtually 100% of faculty job applicants through the system.
• How the UMBC Provost’s Office addresses under-diverse searches in real time by comparing data collected through Interfolio Faculty Search with national faculty diversity rates.

This webinar took place in August 2016.

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Using the HERI Faculty Survey to Examine Service, Stress, and Satisfaction

May 26, 2016/ 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

We were pleased to host Ellen Bara Stolzenberg, Ph.D, Assistant Director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), and Jennifer Berdan Lozano, Research Analyst, for a presentation on a variety of survey data from their triannual faculty survey. Interfolio’s Katherine Kelly, Ph.D, hosted the discussion.

Their presentation and the Q&A session includes discussion of:

• Faculty service commitments and responsibilities
• Faculty scholarly productivity, such as research activity, publications, and exhibitions or performances
• How various stressors and satisfaction measures can impact faculty’s experiences on campus

This webinar took place in May 2016.

Policies and Practices for Supporting Non-Tenure Track Faculty

March 31, 2016 / 2:00-3:00 PM EST

What effect does increased adjunct hiring have on students, faculty, and your institution? What if there were solutions that helped to support non-tenure track faculty on campus and improve institutional outcomes?

As Co-Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, Adrianna Kezar is at the forefront of research on changing models of the professoriate. In this webinar, Dr. Kezar outlines the need for new models to replace the existing bifurcated system of tenure-/non-tenure track faculty—a system, she argues, that does not serve students, faculty, or the enterprise of higher education.

This webinar will cover:
– The impact of current hiring trends on student success and the future of the professoriate.
– Campus policies and practices that affect non-tenure track faculty.
– A path for change: strategies that receive buy-in from multiple stakeholder groups.

Adrianna Kezar is Professor of Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education and the Co-Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at USC. Her most recent publication, “The Professoriate Reconsidered,” ambitiously kicks off a new conversation about meaningful change in the current faculty model with a survey of faculty, administrators, board members, accreditors, and policy makers across institutional types.

This webinar took place in March 2016.

Sarah B. Steinberg, Ed.D + Interfolio: Institutional Impediments to Faculty Service and Productivity

Thursday, January 28, 2016 / 2:00-3:00 PM EST

Faculty are the greatest investment an institution makes in its success: so why is their service often unsupported? Faculty also hold some of the most important institutional decisions in their hands, like hiring, tenure, and curriculum. Despite this value, most colleges and universities have a disproportionate investment in technology for student success. By not providing adequate means for enhancing workflow and data access, institutions inadvertently impede their faculty’s productivity, which costs time, money, and research outcomes. Technological solutions exist for nearly every other segment of higher education, from student success and retention to alumni giving: so why not for faculty?

Join Sarah Steinberg, Ed.D., Founder of Frogstone Strategies and Former Executive Vice Provost at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss:

• Recent hiring trends and the resulting impact on faculty work
• The true cost of faculty service on financial, research, and recruitment outcomes
• The role of technology in supporting faculty work and making service to the institution more effective and efficient

As the founder and principal consultant of Frogstone Strategies, a firm that provides resource and strategic assessments, market research, and consulting services to colleges and universities, Dr. Sarah Steinberg brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience in higher education to her role. With expertise gained as the former Executive Vice Provost as well as the Senior Associate Dean of the Advanced Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Steinberg specializes in revenue enhancement through online, continuing, and professional education; strategic planning and assessment; market analysis and research; academic leadership and administration; technology usage and application; and business/education consulting.