Academic Portfolio Development
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.
For more detailed information, please read the Center for Academic Excellence's Portfolio Development for Promotion and Tenure.
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. Chapter two, "Standards of Scholarly Work," could be especially helpful in providing a framework for beginning the construction of a portfolio.
Click on the menu items on the left for more helpful resources.