| This is the Preliminary Outline for Portland State University's Institutional Portfolio:
Description: This project focuses on the development of an electronic institutional portfolio through which some common features of urban universities will be developed and published, such as:
- Generic mission statement for urban institutions
- Core learning goals and outcomes for undergraduate education
- Hallmark good teaching and learning practices
- Features of the university environment that support or hinder achievement of core learning goals
- Statistical data that describe urban institutions as a distinct group
The institutional portfolio, developed by each individual campus will reflect its own needs and those of its constituents. The contents of the PSU portfolios should fall under these broad headings.
- Program assessment and evaluation
- Scholarly work on urban topics
- Connections with external constituents
- Student services
- Technology applications
- Faculty issues
- Community partnership and projects
- K-12 and community college connections to PSU
- Curricular reform
- Diversity
Specifically, the institutional portfolio should contain, but not be limited to, the following:
- PSU's mission statement
- Core learning goals for undergraduate and graduate education
- Examples of good teaching and learning practices or programs, featuring individual faculty or program areas, both undergraduate and graduate
- Examples of structures, policies, or practices that either support or hinder achievement of our core learning goals
- Examples of faculty and student research on topics related to the urban mission
- Examples of outreach, cooperative arrangements, or other links to the city, state, or region, and to the national and international environments that relate to our public urban, academic mission
- Examples of PSU graduates who have been successful in the public, non-profit, self-employed, or private employment sectors
- Examples of collaborative projects with K-12, and other colleges or universities
- Examples of the application of technology to teaching, learning, research, and outreach
- A portrait of the diversity of our student body
- Examples from our curricular reform efforts that relate to teaching, research, student learning, and community partnerships
- Overall statistical portrait of PSU
Dave Porter, a member of the project's Institutional Review Board, suggests that the institutional portfolio should include:
"...description of the work done, an explanation of its relation to the higher purposes or goals (of the course, program, or institution), and a demonstration of the institution's capacity for using data to enhance effectiveness. The real purpose of the portfolio seems to me to be demonstrating skill in assessment and self-correction, rather than asserting institutional supremacy or obviating the need for change."
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