ePortfolios for TAP Evaluation

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Guidelines for faculty ePortfolios for tenure and promotion evaluation

Interim Provost Harriet Feldman's TAP & ePortfolio Announcement

Content to include on your Academic Materials page:

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Since CDFPT members each receive copies of your fact sheet and evaluations from your Department Chair and TAP/Personnel Committee, you need not include copies here
  • It is recommended that your CV be no longer than 15 pages

Executive Summary

  • Highlights your accomplishments and expertise in the areas of teaching, scholarship/research, professional/practicum (optional), and service
  • It is recommended that your summary be no more than 2 pages

Teaching Portfolio

Include two documents: your Teaching Statement and Supporting Evidence of Teaching

  • Teaching Statement:
    • Objective and subjective evidence of your abilities and effectiveness as a teacher
    • Generally includes a teaching philosophy, courses you developed, learning communities taught, general classroom strategies, methods used to assess and evaluate students, collaborative teaching opportunities with students, and future teaching goals
    • It is recommended that the statement be no longer than 20 pages
  • Supporting Evidence of Teaching:
    • Suggestions include course syllabi, examples of assessment matrices and/or rubrics, examples of student hand-outs, examples of review guides and exams, examples of student assignments, student evaluations, and teaching evaluations by peers

Scholarship/Research Portfolio

Include two documents: your Scholarship/Research Statement and Supporting Evidence of Scholarship/Research.

  • Scholarship/Research Statement
    • Objective evidence of your abilities and effectiveness as a scholar/researcher
    • Generally includes a scholarship/research philosophy; a description of your scholarship/research and its impact, influence, and importance in your discipline; work(s) in progress with anticipated completion dates; grants, applied for and received, or approved and not funded (substantiated by documents); presentations at academic or professional meetings or in seminars or forums for students, peers, or the public
    • Future scholarship/research goals
    • It is recommended that the statement be no longer than 20 pages
  • Supporting Evidence of Scholarship/Research:
    • List of your publications, presentations, and impact factor of journals and citation reports
    • Links to or a portable document file (PDF) of your published and/or graphic works. For books, you may wish to upload a PDF of the book title and a chapter or two that illustrates your work.
    • For faculty with tenure and applying for promotion, it is recommended that you separate your pre-tenure and post-tenure publications/presentations

Service Portfolio

  • Highlights your contribution to 1) your Department, School/College, and University (internal service); and 2) the professional and community levels (external service)
  • It is recommended that this section be no more than 10 pages

Professional/Practicum Portfolio (optional)

  • Section is optional and does not apply to the majority of disciplines
  • Faculty in nursing and some areas of business may find this section appropriate
  • Confer with Chair or Dean to determine if this section is applicable to you
  • It is recommended that this section be no more than 10 pages

Addendum

  • This section is reserved for information that is relevant to your tenure and/or promotion (e.g. accepted publications, presentations, and awards), and that occurred after the December 15th deadline for submission of your eDossier to the Provost’s Office

Faculty Sample

 

Professor Abbey Berg - Department of Biology and Health Sciences