CCCCs Executive Committee

I love Duane Roen, my dissertation chair and scholarly mentor. He was good and tried protecting me from national/disciplinary service commitments until I had finished my dissertation. Now, I have to give him credit because although I sabotaged my own PhD progress by still serving on these type of committees, working too much, writing a textbook, etc., he still protected me. I really know that because practically within days of defending my dissertations I was getting requests to serve on different committees. Needless to say, I have been elected to the CCCC‘s Executive Committee. This is a three year committement and I have to attend both the annual CCCCs confernece in the Spring and NCTE’s annual conference in the Fall. After attending my first meeting this past spring, I can say I’m both excited and intimidated about being on the committee. I’m glad to represent community college interests the committee. However, I also realize there is a lot of work with various sub-committees and such. I’m even overwhelmed with all of the official and unofficial responsibilities I have at the CCCCs conference itself. My TripIt planner was pages long, getting me started as early as 7:00am (as in events started that early) and going late into the evening (yes, late night socializing is serious “work” at this conference). Prior to being elected to this committee I sincerely thought I wanted to be TYCA Chair someday; however this position at least makes me appreciate the time, energy, and traveling commitment that type of a role requires.
I’ll admit, there is no shining pearl of wisdom in this blog post...it’s more of a “here’s what I’m up to” so that I can connect it to my 2010 Faculty Evaluation Plan. I will, however, ask the following question to any readers: how do you balance your regular work, institutional service, and national and/or disciplinary service?

June 18 2010 | Posted in CCCC