The Role of Service in the Progress of Your Career

1. The Role of Service in the Progress of Your Career Robert W. Schwartz Interim Provost Freshman Faculty Forum – 8 Feb 2012 “You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” ~ Albert Camus

2. Three Themes for Today • The impact of service in shared governance • Your role in professional societies and the link to promotion to full professor • Opportunities for professional development through service

3. CRR 300.030 S&T Faculty Bylaws Preamble: “The faculty of the Missouri University of Science and Technology in order to facilitate communications and to provide for effective academic governance, for participation in decision making, and for shared responsibility in academic affairs, do establish and subscribe to these Bylaws.”

4. The Importance of Service • Promotion Considerations – CRR 320.035 • “Additional criteria include professionally-oriented, service contributions and service to a faculty member's department, school, college, and the University. Because the faculty has a special role in the decisions of the University, service to the University and its numerous units is expected of every faculty member…” • “but such service shall not substitute for teaching and scholarship in matters of promotion and tenure.”

5. CRR 300.030 S&T Faculty Bylaws • Duties, Powers, Responsibilities & Privileges • Primary functions – education, research, and service • Organizations – General Faculty, Graduate Faculty, Departments, Faculty Senate, Committees, etc. • “The General Faculty is responsible for… matters affecting the welfare of the institution… • “The faculty may also make recommendations to the Chancellor on: institutional facilities, personnel and resources, professional standards, employment qualifications, tenure, promotion, salary, retirement, and other factors affecting faculty morale and welfare; and student affairs including health, welfare, conduct and morale of the students.”

6. Faculty Senate and Service • General Faculty Standing Committees • Mission – formulate/recommend action and policies in assigned areas; decision authority in curricula • Membership on committee varies (Department, FS, Stu Co, etc.) • Academic Freedom and Standards • Administrative Review • Budgetary Affairs • Information Technology/Computing • Curricula • Facilities Planning • Honorary Degrees • Library and Learning Resources • Personnel • Public Occasions • Rules, Procedure & Agenda • Student Affairs • Student Awards and Financial Aids • Tenure

7. Shared Governance and Service • “We have to be engaged at every level. We have to exercise shared governance and do that in a sincere manner.” ~ Gary Forsee, UM President Emeritus • “Our university will never be all it can be without your involvement.” • “The most important political office is that of the private citizen.” ~ Louis D. Brandeis

8. Service to Professional Societies • CRR 320.035: • “… the research should have made a significant contribution to knowledge that is recognized by professional colleagues.” • “Good researchers often are invited to serve as editors of journals, members of site visit teams or in other evaluative functions of the scholarly work of their peers.” • “Opportunities for service contributions abound and can take many forms.” • Focus on impact and quality

9. Professional Service and You • CRR 320.035:“Promotion to Professor: A person to be considered for promotion to professor should be a scholar who has achieved national distinction.” • See also Campus Policy II-10 Qualifications for Professorial Ranks • How will you get individuals within your discipline to know you, look at your research, and comment on your expertise? - external review letters. • Many other professional development benefits.

10. Service Leads to Professional Development • Chairmanship and membership on a variety of campus and system-wide committees • Variety of needs, goals and committee members • Impact on professional development • Forces you out of your comfort zone • More accommodating of the input of others • Realization of multiple approaches to address problems • Development of multiple approaches to conduct business • Working with some of the “pros” in this area • Understanding of standards for professional conduct • Benefits of a broader perspective • Process vs. goal orientation • Increased comfort level in decision making and responsibility • Decisions with broader impact: people impacted; consequences for organization

11. Skills and Behaviors for Faculty Success • What skills do you think you’ll need to succeed as a new faculty member? • What skills do you think you’ll need to advance in your career? • How will you assess whether you possess them or not? • How will you go about developing these skills?

12. What the Pro’s Say About Needed Skills • From: For Your Improvement: A Guide for Development and Coaching (Lombardo and Eichinger) • 67 “competencies” that will enable your success (some examples below) • Action oriented Humor • Business acumen Integrity and Trust • Compassion Listening • Composure Motivating Others • Creativity Perseverance • Delegation Problem Solving • Develop Direct Reports Technical Expertise • Ethics and Values Time Management • Hiring and Staffing Written Communication

13. Categorization of Competencies From: For Your Improvement • Strategic Skills • Operating Skills • Courage • Energy and Drive • Organizational Positioning Skills • Personal and Interpersonal Skills • People Focus and Management • Results Focus and Facilitation

14. Are They Really Ready to Work? Critical Thinking Leadership Problem Solving Creativity/Innovation Written Communication Lifelong Learning Teamwork/collaboration Professionalism Diversity Work Ethic Ethics Social Responsibility IT Application From: The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management Also: National Association of Colleges and Employers, ABET

15. Three Employer Perspectives…… Not So Different from Ours • Nucor Steel (Dan Krug) – “We want to hire people we think we’ll like to work with.” • Luminant - “We look for a 70:30 balance in ability” (technical skills - 30%) • Vulcan Materials (Rob Vogel, President) Mining Engineering Conf. at MO S&T, Sept. 2009 “We shop for skills, but we hire for behaviors.” Top Five SkillsTop 6 Behaviors Problem Solving Positive Attitude Project Management Communication Computer/CAD Acumen Team Player Written/Tech Comm, Teachable Internship Experience Knowledgeable Adaptable/Flexible

16. Developing a Broader Perspective • Can professional development through service make you a better/more valuable member of the organization? • Most companies seem to think so – a variety of leadership development and rotation programs • You should have a vested interest in your campus, not only your personal career • Makes for a stronger campus and binds you more closely to your university • Better understanding of campus-wide issues that may impact you down the road • Involvement in policy decisions • Learn more about the issues that impact higher education today

17. On the Overlap of Personal and Professional Skills • Remember the 67 competencies (composure, compassion, perseverance, integrity, ethics, …) – Are personal traits and professional abilities separable? • Use of personality inventory tools in hiring • The importance of “fit” “For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being President of this country was, to a certain extent, about character, and although I have not been willing to engage in his attacks on me, I've been here three years and three days, and I can tell you without hesitation: Being President of this country is entirely about character.” ~ Andrew Shepherd, President

18. On the Overlap of Personal and Professional Skills “…but realize I could have also focused more on some of his other, many positive qualities as a man… He was always ready to accept the challenge of tackling a hard problem with persistence and determination, but was also ready to share a laugh at an appropriate moment. He was focused on helping students achieve their goals and was committed to seeing that the institution did everything it could for its faculty and its students.” “It is character, and not position, that can turn administrators, directors, supervisors, and even senators, congressman, and presidents into leaders.” ~ Joseph Marshall III

19. One Early Career Model: 50/40/10 Service is an important part of your profession and an avenue to professional development • Service will foster your development of new professional skills • Flexibility in your approach to problems and working with individuals • Balance in management (effective vs. micro- vs. inadequate) • Working on and leading teams (effective teams and meetings) • Facing diverse challenges • Learning to communicate more precisely • Greater understanding of various ways to conduct business • Must have balance in three missions, particularly during early stages of career. • Caution: “Service will not get you tenure.” Focus – scholarship • Don’t hesitate to ask “How much time will be required?” • Tackling issues of importance to you as a faculty member and member of the campus community • Personally and professionally rewarding! Some benefits easily recognized immediately. Others pay dividends down the road.

20. Building Effective Skills and Behaviors • How will you start and then continue to develop your tool-box of skills and behaviors? • “Be great at something” • Builds confidence • Builds understanding of what is required to be great • Builds recognition of ability • ~ Dwight A. Beranek, Senior VP, Michael Baker, Jr., Inc. • “Identify the people who inspire you, and find out what makes them tick.” • ~ Lynn F. Jacobs and Jeremy S. Hyman • 10 Tips for Success for Engineering Students Success  S Professional Skills and Abilities Personal Behaviors, Values, and Attributes