Getting Started

Packet (Dossier) Creation

Packets are the term used to describe your collection of work that will be reviewed. 

You will receive an email from the RPT team when a review/promotion case has been created, and your packet is ready to be populated. Packets are only available during active review cycles (generally mid-May – October 1st for Tenure Track/Clinical/Research Faculty; generally Mid-December – February 1st for Teaching Professors and Faculty of Practice).

Once you’ve been notified that your case/packet is available, you will be able to access it in Interfolio RPT.

Tenure-track, Clinical, and Research Faculty

Detailed instructions on developing your Tenure Track, Clinical, and Research Faculty review dossier

Record activities in Interfolio Faculty 180 (F180) and generate a Candidate Profile and Period-of-Review vita for upload to your RPT case. Instructions for the use of F180 are available in this Faculty180 guide.

Packet Checklist – Tenure Track/Clinical/Research Faculty

Teaching-Track Faculty and Faculty of Practice

Detailed instructions for developing your Teaching Track and Faculty of Practice review dossier

Record activities in Interfolio Faculty 180 (F180) and generate a Candidate Profile and Period-of-Review vita for upload to your RPT case. Instructions for the use of F180 are available in this Faculty180 guide.

Packet Checklist – Teaching Track and Faculty of Practice

Packet Deadline

• October 1st: For tenure-track, clinical, and research faculty
• February 1st: For teaching-track faculty and faculty of practice

See Appendix B of the URI-AAUP Collective Bargaining Agreement for Joint Guidance on Preparing Dossiers for the Evaluation of Contributions to the Instructional Program.

Renaming Files

When uploading files, it is important to remember to provide accurate/detailed file names that make sense to you and help provide context to your reviewer.

To rename your files once uploaded into RPT, click on “Edit” in line with the file in which you’d like to rename, and a window will appear that will allow you to rename your file.

External Reviews

Please note: This is only applicable to promotion cases. Advancement to Full III does not require external reviews.

Interfolio provides an External Evaluation Solicitation Tool that allows your Department Chair to expeditiously disseminate solicitations for review of your case. In May, before a promotion case, we encourage faculty to discuss with their Department Chair (in some instances, College Dean or P&T Coordinator) both the cadence in which their external evaluations will be solicited and the materials associated with their external evaluation.

If you and your Department Chair decide to utilize Interfolio’s External Evaluation Solicitation Tool, inside your packet will be a section entitled External Review Content. Upload the materials discussed with your Department Chair to this section and submit ONLY this section.

Submitting the External Review Content section triggers a workflow in your case that gives only your Department Chair access to the material you have just submitted. From there, your Department Chair can utilize Interfolio’s External Evaluation Solicitation Tool.