Create and Define Series
When setting up Lifecycle Management (LM), the series the institution uses must be added before anything else can be added. 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. This article explains how to create a series.
Note that 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. Unlike an academic journey, a series does not include logic for movement from one rank to another. It is just a grouping.
Define Series
1. Navigate to Create Series under Series
Navigation: Series > Create Series
- Click Series on the navigation menu.
- Click the Create Series button in the top right-hand corner of the Faculty Series page.
2a. Create Series
- Enter a Name for the series.
- Select the Unit for which the series is being created.
- Indicate What kind of ranks are in this series using the radio boxes.
- Click Save when finished.
2b. Edit Series
On the Faculty Series page, click the Edit button adjacent to the desired series to make changes.