Douglas Anderson

Self-Evaluation 2007

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teaching | scholarship | service

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significant achievements | annual plan | career plan

departmental goals and College-plan

international committee

This annual self-evaluation is being submitted in the context of my portfolio, which may help to answer questions and to clarify concerns.

A. Significant Achievements in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service

I have organized the year's achievements by teaching, scholarship, and service, all linked below.

1. Discuss the progress you have made in achieving your short- and long-term objectives.

Teaching - eight sections of five different courses

Scholarship - video production, preparation for sabbatical

Service - committees and task forces

2. Reflect on your recent effectiveness based on (a) your standards and expectations and (b) the feedback you've received from the students and colleagues.

Teaching - effective teaching

Scholarship - developing new skills

Service - active service

3. Explain how your activities will change as a result of formative and summative feedback.

Teaching - transition to undergraduate courses

Scholarship - sabbatical preparations

Service - faculty professional portfolios, periodic professional review

B. Annual Professional Plan

 1. Establish specific objectives in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service to achieve within the subsequent review period and beyond. Indicate how you intend to pursue these goals, and discuss the institutional support and resources, if any, necessary to meet them.

Teaching - new courses and course webs

Scholarship - sabbatical projects

Service - internationalizing the campus

2. Comment on how these shorter term expectations fit into your comprehensive, long-term professional plans/career arc at Medaille and within the larger academic community.

The description of my career arc in last year's self-evaluation is still accurate, as are the ways my shorter term expectations fit.

Teaching

Stay close to the cutting edge. Continue being the first faculty member to implement and experiment with new teaching tools.

Scholarship

Make more interesting, useful things using the latest tools.

Service

Contribute to the growth of the College.

Promotion

The handbook recommends application for promotion after a periodic professional review. My initial professional review occurred in Fall 2007, and in Fall 2008, after I return from sabbatical, I will update my portfolio and submit it to the Promotion and Tenure Committee for promotion to full professor.

C. Relationship to Departmental Goals and the College's Strategic Plan

1. Place your professional work in the context of your department's academic plan. To what degree are your professional efforts supportive of and congruent with the direction and priority goals of your program and department.

I have been informed by the VPAA that when I return from sabbatical, I will return to the Humanities Department. However, my professional efforts toward increasing the digital, online, and media education of Business majors is not something that the department will continue after I leave. It is unclear to me how I will fit into the Humanities Department.

2. Similarly, discuss the relationship between your professional achievements and goals and the college's broader purposes and priorities as delineated in the 2005 Strategic Plan.

As I detailed in my self-evaluation last year, I make a special contribution in four areas of the strategic plan because I am so focused on the future.

Critical Thinking: intellectual discernment and an active faculty of judgment.

Communication: the ability to write effectively and speak articulately.

Technological Aptitude: knowledge of the current, flexibility in preparation for the future.

Cultural Literacy: grounding in the traditions of human intellectual and artistic achievement.

As the students develop these competencies, I feel as though I make a contribution that needs to be made and, except for critical thinking, is not made as well elsewhere by the faculty.

Internationalizing the campus

My participation in fall 2007 on the academic dean's international / diversity / environmental triad committee as well as my upcoming sabbatical position me well to make a major contribution to the near future of the College.

modified: January 2008
by Douglas Anderson
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