The academic portfolio : a practical guide to documenting teaching, research, and service /
Peter Seldin, J. Elizabeth Miller.
- San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
- xxiii, 358 p. ; 23 cm.
- The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series .
- Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349) and index.
The academic portfolio concept -- Choosing items for the academic portfolio -- Preparing the portfolio -- Suggestions for improving the portfolio -- Evaluating the portfolio for personnel decisions -- Answers to common questions -- Sample portfolios from across disciplines.
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.