Course Portfolio Working Group

About the Initiative

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching's Course Portfolio Working Group is funded by a grant from The Bush and William & Flora Hewlett foundations.

All faculty members are invited to participate in the Course Portfolio Working Group (CPWG) during the 2003-2004 academic year. Since 1997, more than 75 Xavier faculty members have developed course portfolios with grant support from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. A $500 stipend per semester is available to CPWG participants.

A course portfolio is a set of materials related to a particular course. It is not simply a collection of teaching materials, but a scholarly project reflecting the choices an instructor makes in designing, implementing, and evaluating a course. As noted by one faculty member, "The purpose of the course portfolio is to provide a vehicle for inquiry and reflection into the teaching and learning process." The portfolio may be Web-based or take any of a variety of different forms.

Dr. Paul Schafer, Philosophy Department, will coordinate the work of the CPWG during the 2003-2004 academic year. Dr. Schafer was a member of the 2000-2001 CPWG and, during the 2002-2003 academic year, served as one of the Center's Faculty-in-Residence with responsibility for leading the CPWG.

Proposal Guidelines

Interested faculty should submit a one-page letter of interest to the Center by January 17, 2003. This letter need only indicate that you are interested in participating in the CPWG; you do not need to provide any documentation or rationale for your participation. Please send a copy of this letter to your department chair. You may send the letter via campus mail (P.O. Box 73A) or e-mail cat@xula.edu.

Funded faculty must submit progress and final reports. If not published on the Web, a physical copy of the course portfolio will be filed in the Center for the Advancement of Teaching.

More information about course portfolios and the Course Portfolio Working Group may be found on the Center's website: http://cat.xula.edu/initiatives/cpwg/.

Deadline: January 17, 2003
Applicants will receive notification of the results in mid-February 2003.
A part of the October 2002 RFP Multipack.