At Portland State University the recently revised Promotion
and Tenure Guidelines have encouraged faculty to develop and articulate their
own scholarly agenda. This site is an effort to aid faculty in developing a
portfolio format for the presentation of their scholarly agenda to the
departmental P & T Committee.
What is a Portfolio? A portfolio is an
organized, goal-driven documentation of your professional growth and achieved
competence in your academic discipline. Actually, you will be developing two kinds of portfolios: a
working portfolio and a presentation portfolio. The working portfolio contains
unabridged versions of the materials you have selected to portray your
professional growth. A presentation portfolio is compiled from the working
portfolio for the purpose of giving others an effective, concise portrait of
your professional growth and competence.
A helpful resource for beginning this process is the
book, Scholarship Assessed, by Charles Glassick, et.al. Particularly,
chapter two, "Standards of Scholarly Work", could be helpful in providing a
framework for beginning the construction of a portfolio.
To begin, look at the tags to the left and double click
on the subject you would like to learn more about. For example, if you want to
look specifically at developing a teaching portfolio then highlight "Teaching
Portfolio".
