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The Academic Portfolio
Contributor(s): Seldin, Peter (Author), Miller, J. Elizabeth (Author)
ISBN: 0470256990     ISBN-13: 9780470256992
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
OUR PRICE:   $44.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2008
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Annotation: There is a gap in the professional literature for a book that offers help to faculty for documenting their teaching, research/scholarship, and service. This book sets forth the what, why, and how to develop comprehensive professional portfolios. It includes an extensively tested, step-by-step approach to create a professional portfolio, discusses in detail how to prepare it for tenure, promotion, and retention decisions, provides answers to common questions, and includes the actual portfolios of 16 faculty members from a range of disciplines and institutions. Written for faculty members, administrators, promotion and tenure committee members.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Higher
- Education | Adult & Continuing Education
- Education | Professional Development
Dewey: 378.122
LCCN: 2008027383
Series: Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (1.00 lbs) 384 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
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.