Map Faculty Handbook to LM Model
Interfolio's Lifecycle Management (LM) provides a comprehensive digital framework that translates institutional policies regarding academic employment models, position types, and advancement pathways into an accessible visual format. This transformation enhances trust and transparency among university administrators while fostering clear communication about faculty advancement expectations and any exceptions to those standards.
By streamlining the management of faculty advancement, LM makes it easier to implement the information from a faculty handbook while reducing administrative workload. The integrated features of rank, series, and academic/professional journeys collaboratively enable institutions to map, document, anticipate, and compare critical milestones associated with academic appointments, evaluations, and promotions across all faculty positions.
A series must be added before anything else can be added.
Users can view and adjust the default names of key elements within the system on the Custom Terminology page.
Map the Faculty Handbook to the LM Model
| Default Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Series |
A grouping of faculty ranks within a broader position category, organized in a sequence that reflects increasing levels of academic rank. This organizational structure allows institutions to categorize faculty roles while providing clarity around rank hierarchies.
A series serves solely as a grouping of ranks within an institution's organizational structure and does not define the criteria for moving between ranks, unlike the Academic/Professional Journey. |
| 2. Workload Models |
Customizable frameworks that define and track faculty workload expectations across various responsibilities, including teaching, service, research, and administrative duties. They establish general criteria for time allocation among these roles and may incorporate custom elements specific to an institution. Administrators manage Workload Models from the Workload section of LM's Administration page, where they can add, edit, or delete models. The titles and descriptions of the institution's workload models must be defined. |
| 3. Faculty Ranks |
Classifications that represent the standard academic titles at an institution, encompassing essential details such as workload, rank type, and allowable salary ranges for each rank. These ranks reflect the hierarchical structure of academia and are connected to specific rights, benefits, and responsibilities that may vary by institution.
During setup, institutions define these ranks within the LM module to ensure alignment with formal professional designations. After establishing a series in LM, corresponding ranks must be defined within that series. |
| 4. Events |
Career milestones or reviews linked to specific faculty ranks, detailing the essential evaluations or milestones that faculty members must complete to advance in their careers.
Once selected, ranks can be reordered sequentially to create connections that define the progression of a faculty member’s professional journey through upcoming events. |
| 5. Professional Journey |
A connected progression of multiple ranks that outlines a faculty member's career timeline, incorporating various events associated with each rank.
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| 6. Appointments | Connect selected, qualified individuals to a title, position, post, or set of responsibilities for a designated period. For example an Appointment to Assistant Professor. |
| 7. Faculty | The academic staff of an institution. Generally, the body of teaching and research staff at an institution |