2.  Ted Bay,
Grant County Agriculture Agent
 Bill Halfman,
Monroe County Agriculture Agent
 Steve Huntzicker,
La Crosse County Agriculture
Agent
 Bob Cropp,
Pepin County Agriculture Agent

3. 1. Review benefits and
limitations of hardcopy vs.
electronic portfolios
2. Demonstrate an electronic
version of a document
3. Share faculty responses to
a “test drive” in
Ag/Agbusiness Department
4. Discuss “Where to from
here?”

4.  The “Vita”(Who can remember?)
 Switch to portfolio (for
simplicity!)
 Portfolios steadily became
thicker!
 More electronic exhibits
appeared
 Electronic versions of
documents used in development
of portfolios

5.  Faculty also using electronic transmission
for:
 Three year reviews and mini-portfolios
 Tenured faculty reviews
 Professorial documents
 Other professional
presentations
 Two candidates presented electronic
portfolios in Ag/Agbusiness department

6.  Academic department bylaws and regulations
 Some reviewers need to “touch the document”
 County electronic resources may be limited
 Some exhibits are hard to display electronically
 May still be need for some hard copies

7.  Department review committee may not
totally agree with new format
 Faculty Tenure Advisory Committee...
What would they think?
 Dean, Chancellor, Board of Regents...?

8. Savings of... Other advantages...
 Time
 Paper
 Printing
 Postage
 Handling and
transportation
 Can be easier to make
corrections and updates
(page numbers
adjustments)
 Potentially a more
professional presentation
format (for SRP or FTAC
committees)
 Actual exhibits in document

9.  Discussed at JCEP with
SRP Chair Ted Bay
 Shared aspects of
document on how it would
work with committee
ahead of time
 Included a instruction
sheet with CD
 Did binders and CD for
SRP Committee

10. Presented by
Steve Huntzicker
La Crosse County Agriculture Agent

11.  Ted Bay
Past SRP Committee
Chair
 Bill Halfman
Current SRP Committee
Chair
 Steve Huntzicker
“The Guinea Pig”

12.  Not mandating any
changes
 Gathering more
feedback
 Considering this a
process-not an event
 Will encourage/support
future candidates
 Want to collaborate
with other departments
Tenure 2012
Department of Ag.

13.  Learn more about other
platforms/formats?
 Must be a standard and supported
program
 Easy for the candidate to use
 Key evaluators must approve new format
 Collaboration on future “test drives”
 Departments
 Faculty Tenure Advisory
Committee
 Administration