SmartPath training and documentation

Wayne State University's Office of the Provost utilizes the SmarthPath workflow system from MountainPass to electronically process faculty related workflows. SmartPath improves the accuracy and quality of required documentation, reduces the length of time needed to process workflows (compared to paper) and increases the overall efficiency of the faculty administrative processes.

Faculty related workflows currently processed in SmartPath for the whole University include:

New faculty appointments, including full-time and fractional faculty
Renewals for attachments and term-appointed faculty
Promotion and tenure requests
Other personnel transactions
Academic hiring forms

Additionally, the School of Medicine (SoM) utilizes SmartPath to complete the following workflows:

Voluntary faculty appointments and renewals
Selective salary
Onboarding
OEO for non-tenure, non-tenure track faculty
Curriculum vitaes

Training guides

General training guide

Faculty guides

Promotion and tenure workflow (video)
SoM promotion and tenure workflow (video)
Reviewing packets as a department or school/college committee member (video)

Administrative support staff guides

Promotion and tenure workflow (video)
Soliciting letters from external evaluators for promotion and tenure (video)
(Coming Soon!) Appointment workflow (video)
SoM appointment workflow (video)
Renewal workflow (video)
SmartPath Renewal Workflow (video)
Department Chair/Dean approval and attestation (video)
Maintaining the faculty roster (video)
Creating and maintaining signature blocks (video)
Maintaining departmental and school/college promotion and tenure committee(s) (video)
SoM OEO workflow for non-tenure appointments (video)
Adding faculty members to roster (video)
Promotion workflow for departmentalized schools/colleges (video)
Promotion workflow for nondepartmentalized schools/colleges (video)
Committee picker in the promotion workflow (pdf)
Appointment workflow guide (pdf)