Review, Promotion, and Tenure Tool

Please find tutorials below to set up your personal dossier:

• ​How to Review Template Guidelines to Prepare for Review
• Navigating Your Dossier (Interfolio Webinar)
• Sign In to Dossier
• Using Your Personal Dossier to Prepare for Review

Users may end up with multiple Interfolio accounts due to working at a previous institution(s), applying to various positions, and being a letter writer for external evaluations. This tool has been designed to let users self-merge their multiple accounts.

Please find tutorials below to merge your personal dossier:

• About Merging Your Interfolio Accounts
• How to Merge Interfolio Accounts

System administrators are the end-users with the most power within Interfolio RPT. In addition to being able to access documents, e-mail candidates, and committees, and move a case forward or backward, Administrators are the only users who can create templates, forms, and cases for the units to which they have access. Administrators can also create users and standing committees. Administrators can exist at any organizational level in RPT and have the ability to perform administrative functions for all units within their administrative hierarchy. For example, an Administrator at a university will have access to settings, cases, and committees for all units at or beneath the university level, such as colleges, departments, and so on. Administrators will lose such access only when "recused" from a case at a particular workflow step.

Candidates submit materials via the Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) tool for peer review and evaluation of a candidate's individual achievement.

In accordance with Section 2.4.2 of the Faculty Handbook, Tenure-line Faculty will be evaluated in light of the missions of the University which are teaching, research, and scholarship both theoretical and applied and service. Although candidates are not expected to have equal levels of commitment or equal responsibilities in these areas, high competence is expected. Genuine excellence must be exhibited either in teaching or in research/scholarship. High competence must be exhibited in both areas. The primary consideration in the evaluation of the candidate's achievements will be the extent to which these continue to improve the academic quality of the University.

In accordance with section 2.3.3 of the Faculty Handbook, Term Faculty will be evaluated for appointment based on quality of performance and departmental resource needs and commitments, including enrollment trajectory considerations.

Committee Managers possess all of the capabilities of Committee Members, plus a few more. Most noticeably, Committee Managers have the power to move a case either backward or forward after a committee has finished reviewing. In addition, Committee Managers have communication powers within the system; they can e-mail both the candidate and committee members from within the product and can record committee votes in the program. In order to make a user a Committee Manager, an Administrator must manually select them to serve this role.

Committee Members are end-users that must be added to a committee and/or case review step in order to view a candidate's packet and related documents.

External Evaluators are recognized experts in the candidate’s field or fields and can speak to the quality and impact of the candidate’s collective work. These end-users must be invited to review case materials by an Administrator or Committee Manager through a system generated email request.