Press Releases

Valparaiso, Indiana – APL nextED announced Manon Chadwick has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. Chadwick brings more than twenty years of higher education experience ranging from admissions to scholarship program development and faculty management automation. Her background in faculty operations and passion for course development, faculty training and onboarding fit well with […]

Here at APL nextED we pride ourselves on having the only comprehensive, integrated and centralized Faculty Management System. With our customers in mind, we developed new features to further enhance the comprehensive nature of our platform and improve the user experience. Managing your faculty data and workflows with APL nextED just got even easier! Here’s […]

APL nextED, a trailblazer in faculty management technology, has announced the launch of its Faculty Management Solution (FMS), a comprehensive digital solution for managing, measuring and reporting on all tenured and non-tenured faculty data. APL’s FMS is the first of its kind to offer faculty lifecycle management for both tenure and non-tenure track faculty. Read […]

CHICAGO, IL. – Magna Publications and APL nextED have announced their partnership to bring Magna’s award-winning faculty development content to APL nextED’s Faculty Management Solution platform. Established in 2015, APL nextED is a comprehensive digital solution for managing, measuring, and reporting on all tenured and non-tenured faculty data. Magna is a leading professional development provider […]

Adjunct Professor Link Named a TechPoint 2017 Mira Award Nominee for Corporate Innovator of the Year 18th annual event honors ‘the best of tech in Indiana’ Valparaiso, IN (February 15, 2017) – Adjunct Professor Link (APL) is honored to be a nominee in the Corporate Innovator of the Year category for the 18th annual TechPoint Mira […]

For some, where you start in your career isn’t really where you’re meant to end up. For Kathy Gibson, her transition from the legal profession to higher education to entrepreneurship was a humbling and eye-opening experience. After years juggling the courtroom and a busy family, she decided to pursue a career that was a better […]

VALPARAISO, IN (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 Adjunct Professor Link, the industry leader in higher education faculty hiring and management software, has announced the launch of significant upgrades to their software, PROFolio. APL’s software helps higher education institutions recruit, manage, and on board adjunct faculty. PROFolio 2.0 enhancements feature query improvements; new reporting, billing and management […]

VALPARAISO, IN (PRWEB) JULY 28, 2016 Jamienne S. Studley has joined the Adjunct Professor Link (APL) Board of Advisors. An advocate for students, civil rights activist, and public engagement expert, Ms. Studley has served in the U.S. Department of Education as a deputy and acting general counsel, deputy and acting under secretary, and chair of […]

Adjunct Professor Link has been selected as one of 10 finalists to participate in SXSWedu’s 6th annual Launch Competition this March in Austin, TX. SXSWedu showcases innovations in education with a fast-paced, live startup competition. Ten early-stage education startups have been selected as finalists to participate in the sixth annual Launch event.

Kathleen Gibson, Founder and CEO of APL (Adjunct Professor Link), communicated today with President Robert Pastoor of Saint Joseph’s College offering to help connect any faculty of Saint Joseph’s College who are looking for teaching positions with other higher education institutions. APL has a high concentration of partner institutions in the midwest and has offered […]

VALPARAISO, IN (PRWEB) APRIL 16, 2016 Adjunct Professor Link, Inc. (APL), the first digital recruiting, managing and on boarding solution designed for Collegiate Program Chairs, will announce their national launch at the ASU GSV Summit on April 19, 2016, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt at 2:00PM in Regatta AB, 4th Floor. APL Founder and CEO […]

NWI Innovators of the Month highlights Kathleen Gibson, CEO/Founder of Adjunct Professor Link, Valparaiso. This new Member launched the first digital platform to help higher education institutions “recruit, manage, onboard and certify” part-time and full-time faculty. Also featured is the latest about IVDiagnostics, the innovative team that received the Chanute Prize in 2011 for developing […]

This panel, and many others like it which Educelerate facilitates each year, are immensely important. Why? Because whenever a bunch of smart, forward-looking folks who are passionate about education get together, it simply means one thing: the students we all strive to help are going to derive benefit in some way. Educelerate does an amazing […]

You or your son or your granddaughter enrolls in a college course. You see the name of the faculty assigned to your class and have absolutely no knowledge of who this person is, how much he knows, or how well she teaches. Soon it’s discovered that the professor is an adjunct. What is an adjunct […]

JED in the Region – Kathy Gibson in studio with Jim Dedelow.

Adjunct Professor Link, Inc. (APL), a Valparaiso, IN-based Faculty HR System (FHRS) for higher education, closed the first tranche of a $1m seed round of funding. The tranche was led by Elevate Ventures, which provided $125k via the Indiana Diversity Investment Fund, a program dedicated to supporting and investing in innovative women, minority and veteran […]

VALPARAISO | A startup among the first graduating class at the NWI Tech Foundry stated it has closed the first tranche of a $1 million round of seed funding, led by Elevate Ventures. Adjunct Professor Link, also called APL, a company that helps connect institutions of higher learning with qualified adjunct professors, received $125,000 in […]

VALPARAISO | AdjunctProfessorLink.com is a matchmaking service for college instructors and universities. The site is the brainchild of 1988 Valparaiso University graduate Kathleen Gibson, who after a brief legal career began teaching as an adjunct instructor 12 years ago at her alma mater. “Teaching led to other opportunities and I have been an assistant dean […]

VALPARAISO, Ind. – Indiana-based venture development firm Elevate Ventures has announced the first six companies that will take part in the NWI Tech Foundry (http://techfoundry.org), a 13-week, mentor-driven accelerator program for 2014. The accelerator program, organized and operated by Elevate Ventures, seeks to aid the growth of high-potential tech-oriented businesses in Northwest Indiana by focusing […]