The tenure package
Over at Pedablogue, Mike writes that he just submitted a 3-binder set for his tenure package. It's relatively brief, with a link to another article by Kirk Martini. In that one, Martini talks about the 4-volume set he compiled and likens compiling the tenure package to building a city. He also discusses a colleague's recommendation to include a little glass box to highlight the very best work. .
I can't help wondering about electronic portfolios for this effort. I don't think they're especially popular and I suppose that's because the risk of thinking outside the box (or binder) is too great. Does a CD or DVD carry the same weight with reviewers?
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Great point (and thanks for mentioning Pedablogue). I thought about incorporating a CD into the binder, to combine an e-portfolio with a traditional one, but I noticed in our campus "Faculty Handbook" that the Rank & Tenure Committee can only review the portfolio in the Academic Affairs Office itself... which implied to me that anything "portable" like a CD was a no-no. There might be privacy issues involved, I guess. Still, I put pointers to all things electronic (such as URLs) all over the place in my own tenure package, so nothing's stopping a person from supplementing the portfolio with links to work online.
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