About Using the Faculty Handbook to the Lifecycle Management Model
Interfolio's Lifecycle Management (LM) transforms an institution’s policies on academic employment models, position types, and advancement pathways into a digital, visual format. This enables university administrators to build trust, transparency, and clear communication around faculty advancement expectations and exceptions. By streamlining the management of faculty advancement, LM makes it easier to implement the information from a faculty handbook while reducing administrative workload. The rank, series, and academic/professional journey features work together to help institutions map out, document, anticipate, and compare the standard milestones of academic appointments, reviews, and advancements across all faculty positions.
Map the Faculty Handbook to the LM Model
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Series: A grouping of faculty ranks within a broader position category.
A series must be added before anything else can be added.
Does not include logic for movement from one rank to another as the Academic/Professional Journey does.
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Workload Models: Designed to outline the general criteria and expectations for the distribution of time across teaching, service, research, administrative, and other responsibilities for individuals assigned to each model.
The titles and descriptions of the institution's workload models must be defined.
- Ranks: During setup, specify the faculty ranks at your institution. A dedicated feature is provided to represent the standard faculty ranks possible at the institution, including workload, rank type, and the maximum/minimum salary range for each rank.
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Events: Career milestones or reviews associated with each faculty rank, outlining the events faculty must complete to advance in their careers.
Ranks (once selected) can be reordered sequentially to establish connections for upcoming events that will shape a faculty member’s professional journey.
- Academic/Professional Journey: A linked progression of ranks. For example, an academic journey would catalog the actual sequence of events involved in the pathway of a standard tenure-track professor, a teaching-only tenure-track professor, and a full-time, non-tenure-track professor on a 3-year contract.