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Here's your SCUP Link to "Managing Faculty Talent"

This very well done article explores the development of a useful faculty talent dashboard at Ohio State University. Business Officer magazine blurbs it: "With an analytics dashboard, human resources and academic leaders at the Ohio State University have at their fingertips trend data that supports faculty workforce planning."

Since development of the Faculty Analytics Dashboard took quite a bit of time, one of our hopes is to find a way for other institutions to be able to use what we've done and eliminate the need for them to reinvent the wheel by having to develop their own tools from scratch. We have approached the Inter-University Council in Ohio, a group of four-year public institutions, and have made an initial presentation to that group with the hope of having other schools use our product. Several other Big 10 institutions have seen the dashboard in our CUPA-HR presentations, and we would love to have discussions about common use of the tool for benchmarking purposes.

Larry Lewellen, Ohio State's vice president for human resources, sums up the impact of the Faculty Analytics Dashboard at our university: “This simple-to-use but robust tool, and the data it generates, creates conversations and partnerships with academic leaders and an appetite for use of data by our senior fiscal officers and senior human resource officers; helps us make informed diversity-related decisions and other talent-related decisions; and aids us in making decisions around the difficult task of budget and position reallocation.”