The Academic Portfolio
A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service
1. Edition October 2008
384 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
Acknowledgments xiii
About the Authors xv
About the Contributors xix
1 The Academic Portfolio Concept 1
2 Choosing Items for the Academic Portfolio 11
3 Preparing the Portfolio 31
4 Suggestions for Improving the Portfolio 41
5 Evaluating the Portfolio for Personnel Decisions 45
6 Answers to Common Questions 51
7 Sample Portfolios from Across Disciplines 59
Biomedical Engineering 61
Timothy M. Wick
Bioscience and Biotechnology 79
Shivanthi Anandan
Child and Family Studies 93
Lynda Henley Walters
Education 111
Robert M. Maninger
Education 123
Clement A. Seldin
English 139
John Zubizarreta
Environmental Engineering 153
Charles N. Haas
Foreign Languages and Literature 167
Sheri Spaine Long
Geology and Environmental Science 181
Ranjan S. Muttiah
Jazz and Contemporary Music 197
Reginald Workman
Mathematical Sciences 215
Lisa A. Oberbroeckling
Nutritional Sciences 229
Gina Jarman Hill
Pastoral Counseling 247
Kelly Murray
Pediatric Emergency Medicine 259
Annalise Sorrentino
Political Science 277
Carrie Liu Currier
Political Science 295
Marlene K. Sokolon
Product Design 311
Robert Kirkbride
Psychology 329
Pamela A. Geller
References 349
Index 351
one. Peter Seldin is the author or coauthor of over 16 books about
faculty development and evaluation. His most recent books explored
the use of portfolios in evaluating teaching or administrative
performance. This one is dedicated to the use of the same tool in
documenting all three components of a faculty work life, and is
addressed both to the preparer and to evaluator of an academic
portfolio.
...Even the most faithful of Seldin's readers will
find new and updated content among many familiar themes, as well as
a change of focus from the evaluator to the preparer of an academic
portfolio.
The anecdote at the end of Chapter 6 is telling about the
authors' opinion: the time to begin preparing an academic
portfolio is now. Start by reading this book to find out why and
how!"
--The National Teaching and Learning Forum
Peter Seldin is Distinguished Professor of Management Emeritus at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York.
J. Elizabeth Miller is associate professor of Family and Child Studies at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.
