About Using the Faculty Handbook to the Lifecycle Management Model
Interfolio's Lifecycle Management (LM) translates all of an institution's policies on academic employment models, position types, and advancement pathways into a digital and visual format, allowing university administrators to build trust, transparency, and clear communication about the expectations and exceptions to faculty advancement. This allows users to effectively put into use the information on academic advancement in a faculty handbook while reducing the administrative burden of managing faculty advancement. Together, the rank, series, and academic/professional journey features enable the institution to map out, anticipate, document, and compare the standard milestones of academic appointment, review, and advancement for all faculty positions offered or held at the institution.
Map the Faculty Handbook to the LM Model
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Series |
In setting up LM, a series will need to be added before anything else can be added. Series are groupings of faculty ranks within a broader position category. For example:
A series is just a grouping. It does not include logic for movement from one rank to another as the Academic/Professional Journey does. |
| Workload Models | The titles and descriptions of workload models that exist at the institution will need to be set. The Workload setting is meant to capture the general criteria and guidelines concerning the amount of time for teaching, service, research, administrative, and other responsibilities expected of a person assigned to that model. |
| Ranks | A dedicated feature is provided to represent the standard faculty ranks possible at the institution, including workload, rank type, and maximum/minimum salaries permitted for that rank. When setting up the program, indicate the faculty ranks at the institution. Later, the career events that faculty within that rank must go through to progress in their career will be added. |
| Events | Events are the reviews or milestones in a faculty member's career associated with their rank. After selecting ranks, they can be reordered sequentially, creating connections for upcoming events that will form a faculty member's professional journey. |
| Academic/Professional Journey | An academic/professional journey represents 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. |