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 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. A series does not include logic for movement from one rank to another. It is just a grouping.
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.
- Enter a Name, Unit, and Tenure-type for the series, then click the Save button.
