NOtes from Earl's T/P Meeting

Key Docs for Earl:

1. Vita (annotated)
2. Personal Statement (“Where you get to expand on the CV…”)--length: "I would hate to give you a guideline...this is your portfolio, I should not be driving the length of your portfolio"

VITA:

Annotated Vita (teaching, service, scholarly activities—this is the order he said it)

Need to emphasize teaching and service—the CV needs to look different and not be a traditional CV

What courses have you taught and how often?

Did you teach them some place else?

I want him to be able to say “Michaud has taught a wide range of courses and had a great student response to all these courses…”

Service—committees I’ve served on, time I did this, work I did. “Dr. Michaud has done service in…”

He’s literally telling us what the sound of his 1.5 page letter to Ron will read like, starting with Teaching and then going on to Service.

Scholarly Activities

PERSONAL STATEMENT:

Teaching

I think I need to mention that if there is an “up and down” in my teaching evals, it’s because I have, since I arrived here, been continually teaching new classes and thus, the first time out, classes have not always gone “perfectly”—give him a reason to ignore the “bad” evaluations.

Am I highlight the use of technology enough in my teaching statement?

Earl makes it sound like—“Tell me in the statement what I should be paying attention to in terms of your student and peer evaluations.”

IN teaching section, need to highlight my collaborative writing/research projects with students, including Terri’s recent publication acceptance.

Service

Highlight the 2-3 service commitments that I took on and tell him why these were important and how I contributed. 

Advising counts as service (to the department)--retaining students

Scholarship

How'd you get into where you are?

What are you doing there?

Why is that important? How has that moved that area of scholarship/activity forward? The impact of my scholarship on the field...

Has the college offered you the opportunity and environment to stay engaged in your scholarly area and have you taken advantage of it?

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Everything else in the binder is support material for what you've told me in the vita and personal statement.

You are tenured and promoted based on the argument you make about your teaching, service, and scholarly activities. Make the argument, provide the supporting material.

Return to make connections across teaching, service, research...

Should I highlight that my service and teaching have taken up most of my time? Or just leave that alone...

Need to tabulate teaching evals...