Teaching Portfolios and Student/Peer Evaluations Workshop with Peter Seldin

Date: November 14, 2014
Time: 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
Location: Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, second floor
Lunch will be served
RSVP: bastress@skidmore.edu

Peter Seldin is distinguished professor of management emeritus at Pace University in Pleasantville, N.Y. Formerly an academic dean, department chair, and professor of management, he is a specialist in the evaluation and development of faculty and administrative performance and has been a consultant on higher education issues to more than 350 colleges and universities throughout the United States and in 45 countries around the world.

A well-known speaker at national and international conferences, he has been a faculty leader at more than 50 American Council on Education leadership programs for department chairs.

His recent books include The Teaching Portfolio, (4th ed.); The Academic Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service (2009, with J. Elizabeth Miller); Evaluating Faculty Performance (2006, with associates); The Teaching Portfolio (3rd ed.) (2004); The Administrative Portfolio (2002, with Mary Lou Higgerson); and Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching (1999).

He has contributed numerous articles on faculty evaluation, the teaching profession, student ratings, teaching improvement, educational practice, and academic culture to such publications as the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Change Magazine.

For his contributions to the scholarship of teaching, he has received honorary degrees from Keystone College (Pennsylvania) and Columbia College (South Carolina).

Seldin served for seven years as co-chair of the annual International Conference on Improving Teaching.