About the Department

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management Policy Manual

Doctoral Student Annual Review

RPTM Policy (Updated 3/14/07)

Please write a personal statement and create a vita. You will be asked to update your personal statement and vita annually and submit it to your academic advisor for review.

Personal Statement
Briefly (in one or two paragraphs) describe the goals you have for the upcoming year. Your goals can be personal (e.g., time management) and/or professional (e.g., completing candidacy exam, submitting an article) goals. Follow your goal statement(s) with an articulation of your short- and long-term (e.g., five years)
research agenda. This may be up to a page in length.

Vita
Organize your vita by the headings indicated below. The headings are based on guidelines created for tenure track faculty at Penn State. Some of them will not be applicable to you at this point in your career, but many will be. We include them here so that you can see criteria typically used to evaluate faculty performance for tenure and promotion (as well as annual
reviews).

Teaching
• List of courses taught in resident instruction for each semester with enrollments and SRTEs (if available) for each course.
• List of courses you served as a teaching assistant with a description of your
responsibilities (e.g., grading, lecturing, holding office hours).
• List of courses or workshops taken that relate to improving teaching skills.
• List of case studies, class materials, etc. you have developed for your courses.

Research
• Research and/or scholarly publications
Citations should include beginning and ending page numbers or total number of pages, where appropriate. For multiple-authored works, your contribution should be clearly indicated by stating what your role was (e.g., data analyst, wrote 30%, helped with conceptualization).
1. Articles published in refereed journals
2. Books or chapters in books
3. Book reviews
4. Articles published in non-refereed journals
5. Articles in in-house publications
6. Research reports to sponsors
7. Manuscripts accepted for publication
8. Manuscripts submitted for publication, with an indication of where submitted
and when
9. Manuscripts in progress, with an indication of which journal you are planning to submit to and when
• Papers presented at technical and professional meetings (meeting and paper titles);
indicate who presented the paper
• Papers accepted for presentation at technical and professional meetings (meeting and
paper titles; indicate who is to present the paper
• Record of participation in, and description of, seminars and workshops (short description
of activity, with titles, dates, sponsor, etc.); indication of role in seminar or workshop,
e.g., student, invited participant, etc.
• Description of outreach or other activities in which there was a significant use of your
expertise (consulting, reviewer for refereed journals, speaking engagements, professional
associations, etc.)
• Funded projects, grants, and contracts (date. title, where submitted, amount).

Be sure to indicate your role(s) (e.g., conceptualization of the project, questionnaire development, data collection, data analysis, report writing).
1. Completed
2. In progress
3. Proposed
• Record of membership in professional and learned societies
• Description of new methods of teaching established courses and/or programs
• List of honors or awards for scholarship or professional activity
• List of grants and contracts for improvement of instruction, with an indication of your role in preparing and administering the grants and contracts
• Applications of research in the field including new applications developed and tested; new or enhanced systems or procedures demonstrated or evaluated for government agencies, professional associations, educational institutions, etc.
• Other evidence of impact in society of research scholarship and creative
accomplishments

Service
• Service to the University
1. Record of committee work at college, department and university levels
2. Participation in university-wide governance bodies and related activities
3. Record of contributions to the university's programs to enhance equal
opportunity and cultural diversity
4. Assistance to student organizations
• Service to Society as a representative of the university (limit the list to activities that use your professional expertise)
1. Participation in community affairs
2. Service to governmental agencies at the international, federal, state and local
levels
3. Service to business and industry
4. Service to public and private organizations
5. Service to citizen/client groups
6. Other (e.g., participation in task forces)
• Service to the disciplines and to the profession
1. Organizing conferences, service on conference committees
2. Active participation in professional and learned societies (e.g., offices held,
committee work, and other responsibilities)