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CS400 Future Faculty Seminar May 25, 2005 Service in Academia Bruce Wooley Bruce A. Wooley - 1 - Stanford University How Did I Get Here? Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1970 14 years in Research at Bell Labs Left because


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“Service” in Academia

Bruce Wooley

CS400 – Future Faculty Seminar May 25, 2005

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How Did I Get Here?

  • Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1970
  • 14 years in Research at Bell Labs

– Left because Stanford asked, and I liked working with students and recent graduates

  • Joined Stanford in 1984

– (tenure the easy way)

  • ICL Director 93-96

– Because Jim Plummer became Senior Assoc. Dean

  • Since 1996: EE Chair, Senior Assoc. Dean & EE Chair

– Because John Hennessy and then Jim Plummer were Dean

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Professional Activities

  • Journal of Solid-State Circuits Guest Editor (1975)
  • Int’l Solid-State Circuits Conf Chair (1981)
  • JSSC Associate Editor
  • JSSC Editor
  • VLSI Symposium Chair
  • Solid-State Circuits Council/Society AdCom
  • SSC Society President
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What Kind of “Academic” Career? Are you driven by

  • 1. Classroom teaching?
  • 2. Mentoring the research of PhD students?
  • 3. Personal research?

At a top-tier research university (i.e. Stanford), #2 is the most important

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At a Research University

  • Young faculty must establish external visibility

for research contributions

  • Good teaching is necessary, but not sufficient
  • Service to the institution won’t count for much

early on

  • In the long term, external relationships are key to

sustaining a research program

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Service to Research Community

  • Reviewing papers & program committee service

help establish visibility, and should broaden knowledge base

  • Avoid service with a large, ongoing time

commitment until mid career – e.g. conference chair or journal editor (which require capable administrative support) – guest editor for single issue is good

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Service to Institution

  • Department level committees

– Don’t spend too much time being a good citizen – Some committees are good, w/o heavy time commitment

  • e.g. Academic Administration Committee in EE

– Admissions Committee can help you find good students early, but is a large time commitment for a couple of months

  • University service

– Avoid until tenured

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Academic Administration

  • Hierarchy

– President – Provost – Deans – Department Chairs

  • President and deans focus is often external & strategic

– Fund raising, strategic planning, capital investment, alumni and community relations – The “face” of the institution

  • Provost and department chairs deal primarily with internal

issues

– Appointments & promotions, operating budget, resource allocation, academic affairs

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Administration

  • If administration appeals to you, why do you

want be an academic?

– A university is not a place that can be “managed” – Asking for help works a lot better than trying to tell people what to do

  • For administrative tasks, often ask people who

are reluctant

– Already have many responsibilities – Must give up something (research, teaching?) – Willingness to “serve”

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Most Important Tasks

  • Department Chairs

– Appointment of new faculty

  • Deans

– “Appointment and promotion of faculty”

  • Provost

– “Appointment of deans” (from Provost at another top- tier research university) At all levels, devoted to supporting the academic mission, but research programs depend largely on individual faculty initiative

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What is Most Important?

Integrity & Fairness