College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Catalog 2016

63 2. Academic/Research Portfolio The Academic/Research Portfolio is considered a capstone experience assessing the student learning outcome associated with research, scholarship and academic development. As a matter of professional development and career building, students are strongly encouraged to participate in a number of academic publishing and professional presentations before local, statewide, national, and international audiences. All students are required to demonstrate that they possess doctoral level competency in both writing and professional presentation skills. There are 2 components to the Academic/Research Portfolio: There are the presentation component and the written component. Presentation Component In order to satisfy the presentation component of the Academic/Research Portfolio, a student must be a part of one or more professional presentations before local, statewide, national or international audiences. To be considered as equivalent experiences, such presentations should occur in settings where submission is subject to a peer review process, and the length of the presentation is greater than 45 min. Because of the wide variety of professional presentation options available, students will need to submit a brochure where their name appears and copies of all relevant presentation materials to a committee of full time family therapy faculty reviewers. Any such presentations must be based on materials, projects, or research that the student has been involved in since they were enrolled in the family therapy program. Panel presentations will not be accepted. Students must demonstrate they had significant input to the preparation of the presentation. Written Component In order to fulfill the written component requirement of the Academic/Research Portfolio, a student must submit for publication a manuscript or chapter that the student authored prior to enrolling in dissertation. This manuscript or chapter must have submitted to a peer reviewed, professional journal in family therapy or other closely related professional journal or edited book. A committee of full time family therapy faculty will review the article or chapter to determine if it satisfies this requirement. The student may also be the second author of the manuscript or chapter. Alternate written component: Students may submit to the faculty committee evidence that an article or chapter she/he has authored or co-authored has been accepted for publication in a peer reviewed, family therapy or other closely related professional journal or edited book. Documentation that the article or chapter has been accepted for publication is required. Students are highly encouraged to seek a faculty mentor prior to submitting for publication. Also, students may co-publish with faculty and other students/colleagues. In order to fulfill the requirement students must be the 1 st or 2nd author. If a student is not the 1 st or 2 nd author, but 3 rd +,, students must obtain and submit a letter from a faculty to the Program coordinator indicating that their work on the manuscript was a significant enough contribution to fulfill this requirement. Portfolio Timeline Information Doctoral students may not begin their internship until they have successfully completed their Clinical Portfolio. The presentation component of the Academic/Research portfolio as