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Volunteerism This session is about opportunities for volunteer activities that can help to advance your career and broaden your professional network, both within your own university and within the profession. Also discussed will be strategies


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Volunteerism

This session is about opportunities for volunteer activities that can help to advance your career and broaden your professional network, both within your

  • wn university and within the profession. Also

discussed will be strategies for gaining recognition for your accomplishments and for helping others to be recognized.

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Volunteerism

Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines Dona L. Crawford, Lawrence Livermore National Lab Renée McCauley, College of Charleston

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Volunteerism (Tracy)

  • Conferences

– MobiCom, MobiHoc, GHC, CCWIC – lots of TPCs

  • ACM

– SIGMOBILE – Distinguished Lecturer – ACM-W – Gender Task Force

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Volunteerism (Tracy)

  • NSF

– NOSS, DOLCE – Topical workshops – lots of review panels – Rotator considered

  • Editorial Boards

– IEEE TMC, Ad Hoc Networks, Pervasive Computing – CRAWDAD, Engineering Pathways

  • Visible Projects

– N2Women – CRA-W DMP (D-REU)

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Volunteerism (Tracy)

  • Institution

– Associate Director CARDI (research center) collaborations – Female Faculty Coordinator passion – Presidential Search Committee visibility, hobnob, learn – Graduate Council visibility, impact – Awards Committee impact – Compensation Committee impact – Graduate Director visibility, impact – Undergraduate Committee (member and chair) impact – Lots of faculty searches (member and chair) impact – Lots of other minor departmental committees somebody

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PROS: Why do it?

Because it’s good for the community!

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PROS: Why do it?

Make national/international contacts – Meet interesting people and travel – Meet potential collaborators – Get inspired

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CONS: Downsides?

Added TIME/TRAVEL commitment – Time away from teaching/research – Time away from family

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A Few Tips

How to get invited?

– Volunteer yourself – Ask friends to volunteer you – Network, network, network, repeat – Sell yourself to boss and others

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Volunteerism (Dona)

  • Conferences

– SCxy Conference Series: High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis – ISC Conference Series

  • Advisory Committees

– DOE, NSF, DOD, IBM, Council on Competitiveness

  • Professional Boards

– Civilian Research and Development Foundation

  • Community Service

– Cray Award Committee, Sid Fernbach Award Committee, Expanding Your Horizons, Go Figure Math Competition sponsor

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Volunteerism (Dona)

  • Institution

– Associate Director Leadership – Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC bid team key personnel – Screening Committees for Senior Management Positions – Institutional Roles on Workforce and Communications Working Group, Performance Assurance Board, and Strategic Programs – Co-Chaired 1) Aurora Partnerships and Relationships Committee, and 2) Employee Survey Action “Pay, Benefits, and Reards” – Sandia National Laboratory: Nuclear Weapons Policy Board, Nuclear Weapons Strategic Business Unit Program Director, Supercomputer Consolidation Project – Founding member of the ASCI leadership team

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PROS: Why do it?

Learn to lead – Personal growth – Make tough decisions

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PROS: Why do it?

Personal satisfaction – Contribute to profession outside own institution – Good for annual and promotion reviews – Share experiences and skills that benefit others – Get away from, at least for a little while, the local politics that may be brewing at home

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CONS: Downsides?

Good volunteer get more requests – Easy to over-commit – Need to learn to say NO

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CONS: Downsides?

The ‘we need a girl on the committee’ syndrome

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A Few Tips

Select your activities carefully

– Only do what is personally rewarding/satisfying – Build track record with conference X – Build track record with SIG y or ORG z

If say ‘yes’, need to do it well

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Volunteerism (Renée)

  • ACM/SIGCSE

– Member of ACM and SIGCSE since 1992. – SIGCSE treasurer since 2007, member-at-large 2003-2007 – Column editor for inroads: The SIGCSE Bulletin, 1997- 2001

  • IEEE-CS

– Curriculum oversight committee co-chair, since 2007

  • Computer Science Education journal

– Co-editor, 2000-2007 – Special issue editor, 1998

  • Computer Science Education Links, 1995-1999
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Volunteerism (Renée)

  • NSF Proposal reviewer
  • Conferences

– SIGCSE conference co-chair, 2003; program co- chair, 2002; BOF organizer, 1996 – ITiCSE conference program co-chair, 1999 – CSEE&T student voluteers organizer, 2008 – International Computing Education Research Workshop program committee, 2005-2006

  • Institutional

– Director, Discovery Informatics degree program – Advise UPE student chapter – Chaired campus-wide Academic Standards committee

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PROS: Why do it?

Effect change – Opportunity to have an impact – Opportunity to make things better

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PROS: Why do it?

Gain prestige and PR for you and your institution

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CONS: Downsides?

Service not always appreciated

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A Few Tips

Be effective

– Present work internally – Present work externally – Be a problem solver – Work with others outside your institution – Contribute at national/international levels

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Pay it Forward

  • Nominate, promote, and invite others
  • Connect others with senior people (and

management)