Faculty Merit
Simplify the time-consuming, paper-based task of assembling and reviewing faculty merit and promotion portfolios Description:
The academic personnel process in the University of California is one of the most complex of any university system. Periodically our faculty and staff are confronted with the time-consuming task of putting together a paper portfolio representing faculty achievements over merit and promotion intervals. Also, there are some aspects of the faculty merit and promotion process that are determined at the departmental level, such as voting rules and processes. Attempting to account for all local differences in a single merit and promotion system would likely be a complex undertaking with little chance of success. A common aspect of faculty merit and promotion (and many others) is the need to assemble a "portfolio" of information that includes such items as the faculty resume, publications (list and hard copy), courses taught during the evaluation period, teaching evaluations, letters of recommendation, individual faculty comments on the case, the vote of the faculty on the particular case, the departmental letter containing the recommendation, a letter from the chair, the dean's letter, the recommendation from the Academic Senate Committee on Academic Personnel, the recommendation of an Ad Hoc Committee, etc. Some or all of these items (and there may be others) make up the "portfolio" for a merit and promotion case.
By a faculty merit and promotion system we mean a system that supports the creation of an electronic repository or "digital portfolio" to support the faculty merit and promotion process. Such a system would need to provide convenient and flexible input and output interfaces to the "digital portfolio" and the ability to selectively control access to the information contained in the digital portfolio. The portfolio should interface to campus information resources and automatically acquire information that is already available such as course workload, student evaluations, etc.
Notes/Status:
An implementation workgroup, reporting to Vice Provosts Bruno and Horwitz, was formed (Melendy and Shelby, co-chairs). The project was discussed with campus computing advisory groups in 2003-04 (see deliberations and report at http://ccfit.ucdavis.edu). The workgroup has recommended a limited pilot implementation of the My InfoVault application developed by the Medical School A (see demo at http://media.ucdavis.edu:8080/ramgen/IET/MyInfoVault.rm).
I.1; III.3 [see the IT Strategic Plan (PDF) for categories] Sponsor:
Academic Personnel