Faculty
Barrett Honors Faculty Fellows constitute a distinguished faculty of master teacher-scholars who perform the essential leadership roles that help make Barrett, the Honors College a leader in public honors education. This site is to be used as a reference tool for commonly requested items relating to specific faculty needs. For additional information, please reach out to your Faculty Chair and the Faculty Coordinator.
This faculty handbook is designed to help you quickly access information you need to thrive in your professional life. It provides an overview of key features, programs and resources. It will also direct you to the places on our Faculty Canvas page or the Barrett Resource Manual or the ACD or the Barrett Intranet where there is more information, and to the specific people who can help with what you need. So, this handbook is not a comprehensive guide to Barrett, but it is a resource to help you find answers quickly.
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Arizona State University has adopted the Interfolio Faculty Information System for academic personnel actions through a partnership between the Office of the Executive Vice President and University Provost, University Technology Office, and the academic colleges. At ASU, the Interfolio system will be known as the Academic Personnel Actions Reporting System (APARS).
APARS is a one-stop shopping experience for academic personnel actions that leverage shared resources and improves service delivery, consistency and reporting for academic personnel, administrators and staff.
The Academic Personnel Actions Reporting System (APARS) helps institutions provide a centralized product for managing academic personnel data and processes in a secure system.
APARS contains three products: Faculty Search; Review, Promotion & Tenure; and ASU Vita. This page will be updated with resources and more information about each of the three products.
- Faculty Search (Recruitment): This product assists search committees in tracking and evaluating candidates.
- ASU Vita (Curriculum Vitae Builder and Activity Reporting): ASU Vita allows faculty to customize their curriculum vitae and generate biosketches; and to collect and organize annual activity reporting, which will be used for academic personnel actions.
- Review, Promotion and Tenure (RPT): This product streamlines the review process for academic personnel actions, and should make it easier for candidates, external reviewers and institutional committees to review cases.
Helpful Links and Information
- More information on the implementation of APARS
- Logging in to APARS
- Merging your Accounts
- FAQ’s about Interfolio
The Provost Office has created a helpful article to guide academic personnel on how to register for training.
ASU policy and established processes remain in effect for all academic personnel processes, whether or not they are conducted within the Academic Personnel Actions Reporting System.
More information
The Academic Personnel Actions Reporting System (APARS) streamlines review processes and offers academic personnel a central point of contact for submitting activities for personnel processes, e.g., P&T or annual evaluation. You can read more about the establishment and purpose for APARS in UTO Initiatives. An advisory group of senior faculty and college-level leaders have steered the implementation process and continue to provide oversight and guidance.
The APARS products support the work of unit administrators and review committees, providing a single electronic system to streamline the review process. ASU policy and established processes remain in effect for all academic personnel processes, whether or not they are conducted within APARS.
The purpose of merging accounts is to manage access to APARS. If personnel use an ASU email address that is also affiliated with their Dossier account, the system will not know where to direct them upon login. ASU does not have access to personal Dossier accounts or the information contained in Dossier accounts, even after accounts have been merged. If personnel do not wish to merge their accounts, please ask them to contact Interfolio to ensure that a personal email is used in the Dossier account, and not email addresses associated with ASU.
In regards to private information, the APARS products are more secure than the creation and distribution of paper forms or the use of unsecured storage locations, like Google Drive or Dropbox, for academic processes. All data in the APARS products is managed in compliance with the UTO IT Governance policies, which you can read here on the Get Protected website. The Interfolio company is contractually required to comply, and to provide evidence of compliance, with UTO security review standards.
There is a multi-step process for requesting access to APARS data, in compliance with ASU Data Governance standards. Data that is contained in APARS is not available to the ASU community, and all requests for access are reviewed by a Governance Group that advises Vice Provost Clarke about access requests. Dr. Clarke is the data steward for APARS, and all requests for access and reuse must be approved by her office.
The Faculty Assistant Request Form is a Google Form designed with all of your faculty related needs in mind. Here, you can request tasks from the Faculty Assistant team such as Course/Event Planning & Promotion, Amazon Orders using Professional Development Funds or another funding source, Calendaring, ordering of pedagogical supplies, Library Pick-up and Drop-off, Classroom assistance, and much more.
- Student Evaluations of Teaching
- Annual Performance Evaluations