Scholarly Software offers a secure, collaborative, and transparent platform designed to streamline the promotion and tenure process for faculty, committees, and administrators. The platform preserves existing institutional workflows while making it easier to evolve them in the future, centralizing all documentation, communication, and approvals. Key features include fine-grained permissions, integrated e-signatures, streamlined external letter management, and flexible dossier creation—allowing candidates to upload any file type without size limits. Scholarly emphasizes trust and data security, positioning itself as a responsible and innovative solution for higher education institutions. As Annalise Ellis, MHA, MSEd, notes: “With Scholarly, we’re able to centralize our faculty data and roster into one system. We can easily access different data points and faculty will no longer need to manually enter data.” (source)

• How does Scholarly improve the promotion and tenure process? * Scholarly streamlines the process by centralizing documentation, communication, and approvals in a single, secure platform, reducing administrative burden and manual work.
• Can institutions maintain their existing workflows on Scholarly? * Yes, Scholarly allows institutions to run their exact current processes, supporting change management and making future process evolution easier.
• What features support collaboration and transparency? * Integrated tools for comments, annotations, and voting facilitate collaborative committee reviews, ensuring all voices are heard and decisions are well-documented.
• How does Scholarly handle sensitive documents and permissions? * Fine-grained permissions ensure the right documents reach the right recipients, enhancing both security and efficiency.
• What options are available for dossier creation and external letters? * Candidates can create rich dossiers with multimedia uploads and no file size limits, while external letter solicitation, tracking, and management are fully integrated and streamlined.