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ATTACHMENT C
The Faculty Portfolio
General Information
Your faculty portfolio may include two parts but only Part I is necessary for the promotion casebook.
- Part I - Portfolio Summary Section (Teaching, Scholarship and Service
- Part II – Appendix - not mandatory, but if provided it will be shared with APT and EC but will not be sent to the Provost Office or Office of Research.
Part I and Part II must be submitted to the Dean’s Office as separate files.
The curriculum vita is not part of this document and is to be submitted separately.
Part I Portfolio - Portfolio Summary Sectionwill contain only documented summaries of your effectiveness in three areas:1) teaching, 2)scholarship,3) service and will be the only part of your promotion casebook that will be submitted to the Provost’s Office for final review. Therefore, it would be best that you do not make any references to the appendix in the summary section. This section should be no larger than 7MB, (approximately 200 pages or less.) In the Portfolio Part I section all documents must be in “portrait view” (not landscape) and all text must be horizontal! The Provost Office will extract pages that are not in these formats!
Promotion Candidates:
NOTE: For the external reviewer package, only section I.A (teaching statement), II. A. (scholarly statement), and III. A. (service statement) are provided from the portfolio. Therefore, please extract these sections from the Portfolio Part I and submit those separately.
Part II – Portfolio Appendixcan contain other supporting documentation such as outlined below. The appendix has a 20 MB size limit. Should your appendix be larger than 20MB, you may submit multiple PDF files, each under 20 MB.
Both the Part I and Part II (if provided)will be provided for review to the Appointments Promotions and Tenure and Executive Committees.
Recommended software
MS Word, Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 or higher (with embedded fonts to create PDF files). Note: Create your PDF files from MS Word directly to Adobe Acrobat. Avoid scanning whenever possible. Scanned documents make file sizes larger.
Formatting
Margins: 1" top, bottom, left, right
Font:Times New Roman or Times, size 12
Sections: Separate each major section (I, II, III, IV...) with a page break
Footer: Insert full name of candidate and degrees in footer
PDF: Create files using bookmarks indicating the number of pages in each section and last page of file.
Part I – Portfolio Summary Section
University of Michigan
School of Dentistry
Faculty Portfolio
Name, Credentials
TEACHING
Statement of contributions to teaching
- 1-3 pages providing a brief description of candidate’s teaching philosophy, accomplishments, challenges and strategies for dealing with challenges in teaching.
- For faculty with interdisciplinary appointments, please comment on his/her contributions to interdisciplinary activities with regard to teaching.
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Courses Taught(since in rank)
(oldest to newest)
Identify courses the candidatedeveloped and introduced!!
For each course provide:
- Course number
- Title of course
- Brief description of course
- Your role in the course
- Course length (hours/wk, wks/semester)
- Enrollment/semester
- Any unique history of course
- Other course faculty
- Include your student course evaluations using the school template (E) titled “Student-Course Eval Summary Template”(Do not include individual student evaluations or letters in this section. (They may be included in the appendix as a separate PDF.) If teaching in graduate courses, candidate is responsible for obtaining evaluations of your teaching, by graduate students.
- Include actual peer evaluations of your teaching.
- FOR GRAD STUDENT AND PEER EVALUATUON DOWNLOADABLE TEMPLATES, PLEASE VISIT:
Please do not include course syllabi in the Part I Portfolio section.
Special Education Projects(in which you participated or directed)
(oldest to newest)
- Please include (project title, brief summary of the work and results)
- Do not include independent study courses
- If there was external funding obtained, please indicate source and amount
Short Courses, Workshops, Continuing Education Courses
(oldest to newest)
For each course provide same information as in “Courses Taught” (above). In addition, include the following:
- Location presented
- Institution or organization sponsor
- Date(s) presented
Mentoring Activities
(oldest to newest)
- Documentation/evidence to support account of mentoring activity will vary, but some documentation of quantity and quality must be included.
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SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
Statement of contributions to scholarship
- 1-3 pages providing a brief description of candidate’s scholarship goals, accomplishments, challenges and strategies for dealing with challenges in scholarship.
- For faculty with interdisciplinary appointments, please comment contributions to interdisciplinary activities with regard to research.
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Publications
(oldest to newest and numbered)
- Provide complete citations.
- Do not include abstracts.
- Distinguish peer-reviewed from non-peer-reviewed publications.
- Do not include full-text copies of publications in this section.
- Citation format may vary by discipline, but should be consistent within the faculty portfolio. When using quotation marks, put them outside of commas and periods; inside of semi-colons and colons.
- Be consistent in punctuation of journals, articles, and books titles. All must be underlined, in quotation marks, in bold, or in italics.
Grants and Contracts
(newest to oldest)
List in following order: Current active
Past
Pending
- Dates of award (beginning and ending)
- Title of award
- Your role, e.g. PI, Co-PI, Investigator, etc.(ifPI, bold the letters “PI”)
- Agency award number, e.g., RO1-XXXXXXX
- Institute, foundation, company, making the award(bold if federal funding)
- Total funding amount (direct costs)
- Brief description of project
Invited Presentations
(oldest to newest and numbered)
These should be categorized as “Invited,” and should include dates and purpose of presentation.
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SERVICE
Statement of contributions to service since appointed or promoted
- 1-3 pages providing a brief description of candidate’s service goals, accomplishments, challenges and strategies for dealing with challenges in service.
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Committee Assignments
(by year, oldest to newest)
Categories:
- Department committees
- UM Dental School committees
- University committees
- State level committees
- National or International level committees
Administrative Duties at the University of Michigan
(by year, oldest to newest)
Service to Government or Professional Organizations
Include type of service and dates
(by year, oldest to newest)
Community Service (and other service not identified above)
(by year, oldest to newest)
Examples of other service activities related to the University and the profession are:
- Membership on boards and committees or other assignments within the School of Dentistry, University, or profession
- Leadership role in curriculum development and implementation, clinical activity, curricular research programs, etc.
- Contribution to faculty governance
- Membership in and contribution to professional organizations
- Consultant to professional journals as a manuscript referee, reviewer, etc.
- Consultant to accrediting and other educational review boards
- Membership on boards and committees in the community-at-large in a professional capacity
- NIH study sections
- Editorships
Part II – Portfolio Appendix
Note: Part II Appendix does not go to the Office of the Provost. If provided, it will be shared with the internal school APT and Executive Committee, but is not mandatory for promotion.
APPENDIX
Part II as a second PDF file that will not be forwarded to the Provost as part of a promotion casebook, but will be reviewed by department internal committees, APT and Executive Committee. Arrange the materials provided following the same style and format provided for the summaries section.
Supplemental Materials
- PowerPoint slides
- Handouts
- Individual Student Course evaluations can be included in the Portfolio Appendix (Part II)
- Supporting letters and e-mails
- Significant honors/awards
- Course syllabi
- Correspondance, letters, notes, etc.
- Copies of significant honors/awards
- Seminar announcements
These items listed above are by no means all-inclusive. You may include other items in your portfolio. Please contact Krisden Romine for more information.
Special Digital Materials
Do not include copies of portfolios of drawings and photos, journal articles, other manuscripts, CDs, or DVDs (note: copies of any reviews of the candidate's books are acceptable). You may provide electronic links (URL’s) to presentations or websites in the document.
If you have any special needs, you should contact Krisden Romine for specific instructions, () 615-6339.
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