Create and Define Series
Series are groupings of faculty ranks within a broader position category. Some examples include:
- A Lecturer series containing all of the specific lecturer ranks (schools often have a progression or variations on a rank).
- A Tenure-Track Professor series containing all of the specific, standard ranks along the tenure track (Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor; Distinguished Professor).
- A Clinical Faculty series containing all of the specific ranks that clinical faculty in a medical school might have.
Depending on how faculty are organized, there may be any number of series in the institution’s setup. A series does not include logic for movement from one rank to another. It is just a grouping.
A series may incorporate ranks that do not connect with one another on a professional journey. However, ranks that are not in the same series can not be connected.
When setting up Lifecycle Management (LM), the series the institution uses must be added before anything else can be added.
Define Series
- Navigate to the Series page and click the Create Series button in the upper-right hand corner of the Faculty Series page.
- You can also Edit an existing Series from this page.
- Enter a Name, Unit, and Tenure-type for the series, then click the Save button.
