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, –SIGPLAN Exec Committee member , ; Vice Chair for Conferences, ; Chair, –Member-at-large on ACM Council, –General Chair, FCRC 2003 CRA Member Board of Directors, Editorships –ACM Toplas 2001-; IEEE TSE 2004-; IEEE Software ; SP&E ;

3 Learning Experiences ACM –ACM Lecturer, –SIGPLAN Exec Committee member , ; vice chair, ; chair, –Member-at-large on ACM Council, –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, Editorships –ACM Toplas 2001-; IEEE TSE 2004-; IEEE Software 19xx-19yy; SP&E 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!

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12 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 –National Lecturer –SIGPlan nominating committee 77,79

13 Personal History (Clarke) IEEE –Pubsboard –EIC search committee 01, chair 05 –Special Editor –Assoc editor: TOPLAS 88-94, TSE –Distinguished Lecturer 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

14 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

15 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

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