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Section 1:
Personal Portfolio
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In education, portfolio refers to a personal collection of information describing and documenting a person’s achievements and learning. There is a variety of portfolios ranging from learning logs to extended collections of achievement evidence. Portfolios are used for many different purposes such as accreditation of prior experience, job search, continuing professional development, certification of competences.
Tens of millions of people across the world have already used some kind of portfolio. Alone in the UK, more than 4 million people have got a qualification (NVQ) through accreditation of prior learning or accreditation of work experience, and most of them have built a portfolio to collect the evidence required to get their certificate.
The recent explosion of knowledge, information and learning technologies has led to the development of digital portfolios or electronic portfolios, commonly referred as ePortfolios.
My personal portfolio can be found at:
http://web.nmsu.edu/~mbyrnes/portfolio/
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Section 2:
NMSU Policy Manual
Annual revisions of this manual will be produced in a limited number for major unit offices, with an official annual copy housed in the University Library. Revisions to this manual will be approved by the Administrative Council and other bodies as appropriate. Notification of revision will be made through ABCD communication and include a summary of significant revisions made throughout the year. Annually, the Board of Regents will be asked to ratify revisions to the manual. Revisions may be implemented prior to obtaining ratification of the Board of Regents however, such revisions will not become permanent until such time as ratification by the Board of Regents has been obtained. Revisions requiring immediate consideration by the Board of Regents may be submitted throughout the year. This manual is available on-line at http://www.nmsu.edu/manual/ .
Other than those provisions of this manual incorporated into faculty contracts, the provisions contained in this manual do not create any type of contract, implied or otherwise, between the Regents of New Mexico State University and others; are intended to reflect general operating policies; and do not represent contractual commitments on the part of the university. The provisions of the manual, except those incorporated into faculty contracts, are illustrative and not all inclusive; are a unilateral expression of policy by New Mexico State University; and may be unilaterally changed, amended or revoked by the university with or without notice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION AND MISSION STATEMENT
CHAPTER 1 Governance, Authority, Organizational Structure, and Policy Changes
CHAPTER 2 General Operating Policies
CHAPTER 3 Codes of Conduct, Permissible Activities
CHAPTER 4 Human Resources - General Policies
CHAPTER 5 Faculty Policies
CHAPTER 6 Academic - Related Policies
CHAPTER 7 Benefits
CHAPTER 8 Staff Policies
CHAPTER 9 Facilities and Services
APPENDICES
SUBJECT INDEX
[Please note: Chapters 2 through 7 are considered a part of the terms of all faculty contracts.]
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Section 3:
Organizing
Organizing is the act of rearranging elements following one or more rules. It can also be seeing as the opposite of messing up.
One organized opposite could be disordered, since ordered is almost a sinonimous. The difference between ordered and organized is that something is only ordered as long as it is both organized and standardized.
Historically, humans have always tried to organize ourselves. Be it on religion, through books and spoken word, or in science, through journals and studies, or in many other ways. Writing ideas in a book, not to talk to someone, but to specific catalog is also an attempt to organize information.
Science books are notable by their organization attempt of an specific subject. Encyclopedias, instead, usually try to organize any subject into one place, for faster indexing and seeking of meanings.
Recently there was the advent of computers and in the last decade, a huge Internet usage world wide. Notably, the Internet growth is directly related to the advent of websites to search the internet, which also means organizing the internet, since nobody would know how to get anywhere without either guessing, hints or those websites.
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Section 4:
Etc.
Et cetera, usually abbreviated to etc. (archaic abbreviations include &c. and &/c.) is Latin for "and the others". It is often used to represent the logical continuation of some sort of series of descriptions. For example:
We need a lot of fruit: apples, bananas, oranges, etc.
(A common error is the use of the phrase "and etc.", which translates as "and and the others".)
The abbreviated versions should always be followed by a full stop, and it is customary, even in British English, in which there is frequently no comma before and in lists, that etc. always be preceded by a comma. Thus:
A, B, C, etc.
not:
A, B, C etc.
In lists of persons, et al. is used in place of etc. (an abbreviation of et alii, meaning "and others"). Less common is the use of et al. in lists of places (where it abbreviates et alibi, meaning "and elsewhere".)
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