Digitizing Faculty Review Processes with UTRGV The challenge With eight campuses stretched across four counties, and 72 miles between the two largest campuses, UTRGV faced two challenges. First, faculty activity information was kept on each campus, so there was no central repository of faculty data to use for web profiles, accreditation, and other reporting. UTRGV needed access to all faculty information from any location. Second, manual faculty review processes involving binders of faculty materials, reviewed by committee members at multiple locations, weren’t tenable. “We were driving three-ring binders up and down the valley,” recalls Elizabeth Heise, vice provost fellow for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, and an associate professor in the School of Earth, Environmenta

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