The Academic Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service

by Peter Seldin (Peter Seldin, Pace Univ., and Associates); J. Elizabeth Miller

• ISBN13: 9780470479872
• ISBN10: 0470479876
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them.The thrust of this book is unique: It provides time-tested strategies and proven advice for getting started with portfolios. It includes a research-based rubric grounded in input from 200 faculty members and department chairs from across disciplines and institutions. It examines specific guiding questions to consider when preparing every subsection of the portfolio. It presents 18 portfolio models from 16 different academic disciplines.Designed for faculty members, department chairs, deans, and members of promotion and tenure committees, all of whom are essential partners in developing successful academic portfolio programs, the book will also be useful to graduate students, especially those planning careers as faculty members.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

CHAIR

Hiring

How to Write Job Descriptions and Position Announcements

The Department Chair's Role in Successful Faculty Searches

How to Interview Candidates for Administrative Positions

How to Let Someone Go

How to Write Outstanding Letters of Recommendation

Mentoring Challenges

Sharpening Focus

Increasing Productivity

Promoting Collegiality

Dealing With Chronic Complainers

Helping to Resolve Personality Conflicts

Coping With the Passive-Aggressive Faculty Member

Evaluation and Assessment

Tips for Conducting Effective Faculty Evaluation Sessions

How to Write First-Rate Faculty Evaluations

The Department Chair's Role in Assessment

The Department Chair and Post-Tenure Review

The Department Chair's Role in Internal and External

Program Review

Budget

What Every Department Chair Needs to Know

About Fundraising

What Every Department Chair Needs to Know

About Budgeting

Leadership

Finding Your Administrative Style

Career Planning for Department Chairs

Chairing Small Departments

Chairing Large Departments

Five Case Studies in Decision-Making

DEPARTMENT

Departmental Ethics and Politics

Setting Annual Themes for the Department

Setting Course Rotations and Schedules

Building Strong Connections Beyond Your Department

A Departmental Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Developing Colleague-Based Support for Teaching, Scholarship, and Service

FACULTY

Designing and Implementing a Successful First-Year Faculty Experience Program

Helping Faculty Members Create Successful Résumés

Helping Faculty Members Document Excellence in Teaching

Helping Faculty Members Improve Course Syllabi

Ten Ways to Promote Creative Learning

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