Finally, software built for faculty affairs

Scholarly is a modern faculty information system that centralizes faculty data and streamlines the manual work that buries administrators and faculty, so your team spends less time wrangling documents and spreadsheets and more time supporting faculty.

Finally, software built for faculty affairs

Finally, software built for faculty affairs

Faculty are unique. Their software should be too.

Faculty aren't standard employees, and faculty affairs isn't standard HR. Faculty data is a web of appointments and a career's worth of activities like courses, publications, grants, creative work, service and more. Faculty may have multiple appointments and roles, not a single job record. Careers move along academic timelines of tenure clocks, reappointment reviews, and promotion milestones that unfold over years. And faculty affairs’ processes have no true parallel in business, where a promotion or tenure decision can span many steps, multiple committee reviews, external review letters, and require a variety of documents. Typical HR software was never built for any of this, which is why the work has stayed so manual, and so painful, for so long.

Faculty data often lives in a dozen disconnected places: CVs, spreadsheets, legacy systems, email threads, and PDFs. Every promotion case, annual evaluation, and accreditation report means rebuilding the same information by hand. Administrators lose weeks to busywork, faculty lose patience, and institutions lose the clear, reliable data they need to make decisions.

Scholarly was built to solve these problems. We are a modern faculty information system that brings faculty data into one trustworthy source, automates complex processes, and uses AI to eliminate the most tedious work, like turning a faculty member's CV into structured profile data in minutes instead of days.

Faculty input has guided us every step of the way

Scholarly’s founders, Rusty Cowher and Kelly Sutton, believe deeply in the mission of higher education. After hearing major pain points from faculty members, deans, and administrators, Scholarly was founded to streamline faculty administration so that faculty members can spend less time on admin tasks, while empowering institutions with the data they need to operate effectively.