2026 is off to a great start here at Scholarly. Here are a few of the things we built this month in partnership with our customers.

Faculty Assistants

• Scholarly introduced a new role within the application: Faculty Assistants

• Faculty assistants are for institutions where faculty members have administrative assistants

• A faculty assistant user can assist one or more faculty members

• Assistants can act on behalf of faculty members, taking actions on their behalf. This includes:

  • Completing workflows and forms, updating activity data, and more

CV Import

• Scholarly has begun rolling out CV Import, a simple way of importing an entire CV of activity data into the platform

• CV Import uses some of the latest LLMs to securely parse, structure, and ingest the data from a faculty member's CV

• After an initial parsing and structuring pass, the faculty member is presented with an interface to approve or modify any of the records identified in the CV. The records are automatically sorted into the activity kinds configured in the institution's account

• The platform accurately detects if an activity is a duplicate or not, prevents duplicating information already on the platform

• CV Import will work with both PDFs and Microsoft Word documents

• We've found CV Import saves hours of faculty time per CV and eliminates data entry issues

Email Composer

• Scholarly introduced a powerful new interface for authoring emails

• Email lists can be customized and filtered by different faculty attributes, like rank, department, or any custom field

• Email contents can be templated, with template variables for common attributes like name, department name, and more

• Emails authored through the composer can link directly to the faculty member's specific workflow

• Files can be attached to emails authored via the composer

• Custom reply-to addresses can be set to ensure responses get routed to the right person

• Content is previewable and live-updating, with the ability to preview as any recipient

• Try it out by clicking "Compose Email" from within any workflow

API Upgrades

• Faculty assistants can be accessed through the Admin Assistant Role resource in the API

• Creating User records is now possible in the API

• Addresses and Phone Number can now be attached to User records

• All endpoints now work with the JSON:API ?include parameter, which allows for the inclusion of related resources. This cuts down on the number of requests required to traverse the Scholarly object graph.

• Folders can now be deleted via the API

Miscellaneous Improvements and Fixes

• Sandbox reset progress is now visible and live-updating from the Settings > Sandbox page

• Improved the design of our PDFs to make better use of the page layout

• Improved definitions of what it means to complete a workflow step, solving a few bugs in the process

• Improved the color palette on our workload diagrams to better handle histograms with 20+ colors

• Fixed a few bugs with sandbox resets

• Rich text now renders correctly in CV exports

• Fixed an occasional off-by-one error with participation counts in workflows

• We now prevent overlapping primary appointments in the system

• Miscellaneous performance improvements throughout the application

  
  

That’s a wrap for the first month of 2026! Questions or feedback? Your account team is here to help at support@scholarlysoftware.com. See you next month!