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Faculty retention and career development processes are central to an institution's success. Interfolio can support you to anchor these processes in fairness and rigor - with clear documentation of faculty career paths, promotion prospects, workload allocations and personal accomplishments.
Retaining top talent for growth
A recent global survey of over 425academic leaders highlighted significant challenges with retaining staff, faculty management and funding in research and higher education.
While 62% of academic leaders ranked staff retention as a high priority, research productivity and increasing administrative duties were cited as top challenges (44% and 42%, respectively) by both leadership and faculty.
Therefore, although leaders are challenged by staffing levels and retention, top talent are facing increasing administrative burden and a lack of personal development, causing discontentment and churn.
"Quite often, a burden is experienced in meeting administrative requirements in reporting, curriculum updates or student advising, which has led to burnout and frustration amongst teachers."
SL
Senior leader
Mexico
Burdens on faculty prevent them from pursuing high-value activities
43% of senior leaders rated staff burnout among their top five current challenges, in part driven by the inadequate systems used for faculty evaluations - and the administrative burdens they exacerbate. Similarly, 41% of respondents (45% of senior leadership and 38% of senior faculty) ranked heavy workloads as an obstacle to timely promotion and salary increases, 47% of senior faculty also cited administrative commitments that distract from research, teaching and service as a top five reason for timely promotions and salary increases - while 34% of senior leadership agreed.
Data-driven systems for clarity - and a way forward
Technology systems form two of the top five areas of dissatisfaction, spotlighting the provision and management of technology as a cornerstone of academic leaders' priorities.
The visibility of relevant, real-time, equitable data gives leaders the clarity needed to track senior faculty, their careers and workloads. Accurate tracking leads to accurate and timely decisions, linking complex data sets that impact the fairness of review processes, promotions, compensation and equitable career management.
This highlights the need for better tools, improved data management and standardized processes.
"There were delays in the promotion process because faculty evaluation data was scattered across multiple systems. This made it difficult to get a complete picture of their performance leading to unnecessary delays in recognizing faculty who deserved advancement."
SL
Senior leader
United Arab Emirates
Interfolio provides insights into your institution's most valuable asset: your academics
Interfolio's Faculty Information System brings together best-in-class technology data and services to manage the full faculty lifecycle. While each of the four modules can be used independently, our vision of the FIS creates the most value as a unified platform that provides a seamless connection between the various aspects of academic work.
Interfolio's Review, Promotion & Tenure module enables institutions to manage academic evaluations online. Interfolio facilitates easy collaboration between committee members with permission-base workflows, and candidates understand the requirements and can effectively tell their academic story.
Interfolio's Lifecycle Management module builds a complete roster of all academic staff at your institution and gives a visual representation of their professional journey - past, present, and future. Get insights into your academics through a central repository, and take action on this data to initiate cases, plan budgets, support promotions and reviews, and anticipate staffing needs.
Interfolio's Faculty Activity Reporting module centralises data collection and reporting of the teaching, research, and service activities undertaken by academic staff. Academic leaders can celebrate the impact of their academics with a birds-eye view of their holistic contributions and query reliable data for accreditation, awards, workloads, and more.
Interfolio's Faculty Search module makes workflows and collaboration around recruitment more effective and productive. Handle the entire academic recruitment process - including the job board and applications, committee review, diversity reporting, and more - within one centralised location.
Savings of $1.66M annually in administrative and staff time
"Before I knew this platform existed, I tried to make it. And then I discovered Interfolio's Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), and it did everything I wanted it to do plus everything I hadn't thought of. For the University of Rhode Island, RPT saves us somewhere around 6,000 hours and $380,000 in faculty time every single year."
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Philip Teixeira
Lead Information Technologist, Office of the Provost de The University of Rhode Island
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Our team of experts can help you manage all career milestones of your academic staff—from hiring, review and promotion to activity reporting. By understanding your institution’s vision, we deliver a solution that fits your requirements and allows you to meet goals such as:
Managing timely academic recruitment
Supporting academic review and promotion
Facilitating academic activity reporting
Streamlining academic appointments and faculty rosters
