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Plan and Define Professional Journeys

Lifecycle Management (LM) includes a tool for connecting ranks made up of events, to form a series that can map out a professional journey. In LM, administrative users set up a series, add ranks, add events to that rank, and then link those ranks to make a professional journey in the given series. Past events that have already occurred in a faculty member's career will need to be entered into the system. Current events will need to be added as they are happening, and future events will be added to the user's profile as upcoming events in their professional journey through the ranks of their given series. For example, when a user is added to the system (for example, a third-year tenure-track faculty member whose current rank is Assistant Professor) since the faculty member is in their third year, the program's administrator will enter all the past events associated with the faculty member's rank (and previous ranks) to the program and the faculty member's profile. Current events for the faculty member's rank in their third year will need to be added to the program as well (such as their current third-year review). But all of the upcoming events that are part of the faculty member's appointment will be added to their profile as upcoming events, and when the time for each event is reached, the system will recognize that and create the appropriate sequence of reviews.

 

Plan and Define Professional Journeys

1. Navigate to Add Professional Journey under Series 

Navigation: Series > desired Series > Professional Journey > Add Professional Journey

  1. Click Series on the navigation menu.
    Series selected under Lifecycle Management
  2. Scroll down to the desired Series Name.
  3. Select the Professional Journey tab.
    Professional Journey tab selected under Adjunct Faculty
  4. Click Add Professional Journey below the series.
 

2. Add Ranks to Professional Journey

  1. Enter a Title and Description for the journey.
    Create Professional Journey section with Title and Description field below

    The description is limited to 255 characters.

     
  2. Click Add rank under Connect Ranks to create connections of ranks to upcoming events that make up a professional journey. 
    Adjunct Faculty section with Add Rank button selected below
  3. Select the desired Rank from the dropdown.
    Add rank section with Rank dropdown below and Add button at the bottom
  4. Click Add when finished.
  5. Repeat steps ii. and iii. until all the Ranks have been added. 
 

3. Reorder ranks

  1. Reorder the ranks sequentially by Clicking and Dragging the ranks to create connections for upcoming events.
    Drag and Drop sequence of professional journey
  2. Scroll to the bottom and click Save when finished. The professional journey will display with all the events mapped out and connected from rank to rank.
 

FAQs

When building a Professional Journey what year should each rank begin?

Treat each rank as independent/stand-alone. So, the appointment at the next rank would occur in year 1, which will allow for accommodations if someone is hired at that higher rank. In that case, the system will automatically place them at the appropriate rank.

 

How to account for someone who starts as an Associate without Tenure?

Revise the faculty member's journey manually (editing specific event details as needed), appointment notes, and even the title (some schools may appoint faculty as Associate Professor without Tenure as their title in the system). This is not a faculty-facing system, so the use of these additional titles or detail fields can be descriptive without as much worry about perception by the faculty member. The award of tenure could also be an additional event added to the individual faculty member's journey.

 

What if someone moved from an adjunct role to an Assistant Professor position?

The individual would get a second appointment record for the new series. The system would then display the previous appointment. The additional events in the original journey could be deleted manually from the timeline.

 

Can there be two active events in the same journey?

Yes, a faculty member can have two events in progress at the same time. These events would appear in green on the faculty member's journey.

 

Can someone have multiple journeys at once?

Yes, users can have multiple journeys, and these journeys can also be within the same series.

 

Can a faculty member be loaded onto a Journey without events?

No, a faculty member cannot be loaded to a series or journey that does not have any events. You will receive an error saying “There are no remaining events left within this rank. Consider changing the start date.”

 

If the first appointment is set to be Year 1 Month 8, is it correct to assume it can manually be changed for someone who started/will start mid-year (January) or some other month?

Yes, changes to individual events can be made as needed. It might be best to consider creating an exception event, where the timeline is accelerated or extended if the initial appointment date affects everything that follows. Another idea is to consider when the events should be completed or effective (vs. how long after the appointment they may occur). For example, appointments may occur two or three times per year, but reappointments and promotions are always effective on July 1. In this case, decide if an acceleration of the timeline is more appropriate, or just a change to the specific date for a single event. While the events do have dates associated with them for the timeline, users can start, end, or cancel an event at any time.

 
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