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July 3, 2025
The Academic Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service
- Author
- Peter Seldin and J. Elizabeth Miller
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint, San Francisco
- ISBN
- 9780470256992
- Table of Contents
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Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Contributors
ch. 1. The Academic Portfolio Concept
ch. 2. Choosing Items for the Academic Portfolio
ch. 3. Preparing the Portfolio
ch. 4. Suggestions for Improving the Portfolio
ch. 5. Evaluating the Portfolio for Personnel Decisions
ch. 6. Answers to Common Questions
ch. 7. Sample Portfolios from Across Disciplines
Biomedical Engineering
Bioscience and Biotechnology
Child and Family Studies
Education
English
Environmental Engineering
Foreign Languages and Literature
Geology and Environmental Science
Jazz and Contemporary Music
Mathematical Sciences
Nutritional Sciences
Pastoral Counseling
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Political Science
Product Design
Psychology
References
Index
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. (From the Publisher)
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. (From the Publisher)