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Professional service - How to make it work for you?

Professional service - How to make it work for you?. Barbara G. Ryder, Rutgers University Jan E. Cuny, University of Oregon & NSF Lori A. Clarke, University of Massachusetts. Personal History (Ryder). ACM ACM Lecturer, 1985-88

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Professional service - How to make it work for you?

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  1. Professional service - How to make it work for you? Barbara G. Ryder, Rutgers University Jan E. Cuny, University of Oregon & NSF Lori A. Clarke, University of Massachusetts

  2. Personal History (Ryder) • ACM • ACM Lecturer, 1985-88 • SIGPLAN Exec Committee member 1989-1993, 1997-1999; Vice Chair for Conferences, 1993-95; Chair, 1995-97 • Member-at-large on ACM Council, 2000- • General Chair, FCRC 2003 • CRA Member Board of Directors, 2000-2002 • Editorships • ACM Toplas 2001-; IEEE TSE 2004-; IEEE Software 1989-1992; SP&E 2004- ;

  3. Learning Experiences • ACM • ACM Lecturer, 1985-88 • SIGPLAN Exec Committee member 1989-1993, 1997-1999; vice chair, 1993-95; chair, 1995-97 • Member-at-large on ACM Council, 2000- • General Chair, FCRC 2003 Public speaking skills How to lead? How to organize meetings? How to be effective on a national level? Working on profession-wide goals

  4. Learning Experiences • CRA Member Board of Directors, 2000-2002 • Editorships • ACM Toplas 2001-; IEEE TSE 2004-; IEEE Software 19xx-19yy; SP&E 2004- Bi-annual Snowbird meetings; Lobbying Congress for CS&E research funding Maintaining quality for published research; Encouraging others to contribute (reviewers); Learning to make tough decisions;

  5. Pros -- Why do it? • Personal satisfaction • Contributing to profession outside your own institution • Making national/international contacts • Meet interesting people and travel • Learning to take a leadership role • Personal growth • Effecting change • Prestige for you and your institution

  6. Personal History (Cuny) • CRA-W • Careers Workshop Chair, ‘94-96 • CRA-W CoChair, ‘96-99 • DMP Mentor, ‘94-’03 • Best Practices on Grad R&R Booklet, ‘00 • Funding Czar,’99-’02 • R&R Grad School Survey, ‘02- • Grad Cohort CoChair, ‘03-’05 • CAPP CoChair, ‘03-’05

  7. Personal History (Cuny) • CRA • Undergrad Awards Chair, ‘97.’98,’99 • Board of Directors, ‘00-’05 • Haberman Award Chair, ‘00,’05 • Vice Chair, Executive Committee, ‘01-’05 • NSF • Review & COV panelist, ‘93, ‘94, ‘96, ‘96, ‘97, ‘97, ‘97,’99 • Program Director, Broadening Participation in Computing, ‘04-

  8. Personal History (Cuny) • Committees/Boards • NCWIT Leadership Team, ABI Advisory Board, CDC Executive Board • Conferences • Graph Grammars & their relation to CS, ‘94; SIGMETRICS Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Tools, ‘98; Best Practices in Recruiting and Retaining Women in CS&E • Grace Hopper Celebration ‘04 Program Chair & ‘ 06 General Chair

  9. NSF • IPA/Rotator • Program Director Design Program; Write Solicitation; Promote Program, Answer Questions; Review Proposals, Monitor Awards • Pros Opportunity to have an impact; Meet great people; See lots of friends; Attend great talks; Travel; Live in D.C. • Cons • Travel; Live in D.C.; Bureaucracy; Maintain 2 lives

  10. Pros --Why do it? • Everything Barbara said, plus • Networking, Inspiration, Friends!

  11. Personal History (Clarke) • CRA • Board of Directors, 99- • Vice Chair 05-07, Executive Committee 04- • Career mentoring workshop chair 02,04 • Congressional visits • Snowbird program committee 04 • Undergraduate award committee 01,02 • CRA-W: DMP, funding czar • ACM • SIGSOFT: past chair 97-01; chair93-97, vice chair 89-93, sec-treas 85-89 • National Lecturer 82-84 • SIGPlan nominating committee 77,79

  12. Personal History (Clarke) • IEEE • Pubsboard 00-01 • EIC search committee 01, chair 05 • Special Editor • Assoc editor: TOPLAS 88-94, TSE 95-2000 • Distinguished Lecturer 80-83 • NSF: CCR advisory board 88-92, numerous panels • Conferences • General Chair ICSE 03, program chair 92 • General and program chair TAV86 • NUMEROUS program committees: International Conference on Software Engineering, Foundations of Software Engineering, International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (Testing Analysis and Verification) • Career workshops and doctoral symposiums

  13. Pros --Why do it? • Everything that Barbara and Jan said, plus want to make things better • Shouldn’t just complain about a problem, need to fix it • Pick your fights carefully • Build consensus

  14. Cons (especially before promotion) • Additional pressure on already tough balancing act • Time commitment • Travel commitment • Risk of being seen as “not a serious researcher” • If you are a successful volunteer, you will have to learn to say NO • I.e., when you want something done, ask a busy person to do it! • Run the risk of being ‘volunteered’ more often as a female academic • The ‘we need a girl on the committee’ syndrome

  15. Cons • Select your activities carefully • E.g., for-profit publishers, third rate conferences • If you make a commitment, need to do a good job

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