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.

This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolioswhich may prove to be the most innovative and promising facultyevaluation and development technique in years. The authors identifykey issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for successdescribing the what, why, and how of developing academicportfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-stepapproach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolioitems covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service fromwhich faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them.The thrust of this book is unique:* It provides time-tested strategies and proven advice forgetting started with portfolios.* It includes a research-based rubric grounded in input from 200faculty members and department chairs from across disciplines andinstitutions.* It examines specific guiding questions to consider whenpreparing every subsection of the portfolio.* It presents 18 portfolio models from 16 different academicdisciplines.Designed for faculty members, department chairs, deans, andmembers of promotion and tenure committees, all of whom areessential partners in developing successful academic portfolioprograms, the book will also be useful to graduate studentsespecially those planning careers as faculty members.

Preface ixAcknowledgments xiiiAbout the Authors xvAbout the Contributors xix1 The Academic Portfolio Concept 12 Choosing Items for the Academic Portfolio 113 Preparing the Portfolio 314 Suggestions for Improving the Portfolio 415 Evaluating the Portfolio for Personnel Decisions 456 Answers to Common Questions 517 Sample Portfolios from Across Disciplines 59Biomedical Engineering 61Timothy M. WickBioscience and Biotechnology 79Shivanthi AnandanChild and Family Studies 93Lynda Henley WaltersEducation 111Robert M. ManingerEducation 123Clement A. SeldinEnglish 139John ZubizarretaEnvironmental Engineering 153Charles N. HaasForeign Languages and Literature 167Sheri Spaine LongGeology and Environmental Science 181Ranjan S. MuttiahJazz and Contemporary Music 197Reginald WorkmanMathematical Sciences 215Lisa A. OberbroecklingNutritional Sciences 229Gina Jarman HillPastoral Counseling 247Kelly MurrayPediatric Emergency Medicine 259Annalise SorrentinoPolitical Science 277Carrie Liu CurrierPolitical Science 295Marlene K. SokolonProduct Design 311Robert KirkbridePsychology 329Pamela A. GellerReferences 349Index 351