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Service is a part of faculty members’ contributions; faculty are expected to serve the community particularly within their areas of scholarly expertise. This statement should be a concise description, no more than two pages.  It is important to recognize the three categories of service acknowledged by the university and to construct the Statement of Service accordingly.  They include, in order of importance for the promotion review, Professional/Public Service, University Service, and Civic/Community Engagement. 

• Professional/Public Service.   There are two kinds of service encompassed by this category.  The first refers to work that specifically draws upon one’s professional academic expertise and is demonstrably applied to some aspect of society’s welfare and improvement.  Examples include but are not limited to: serving on a national state commission or task force; consulting with or providing technical assistance for social, governmental, or cultural agencies; doing clinical work with individuals; providing staff development; offering instruction in the form of workshops or venues of continuing education.  The second kind is work that contributes to the improvement of the profession itself: editing journals, magazines, newsletters; holding office in a professional organization, organizing conferences and symposia.  The impact of service contributions can, in great part, be estimated by the level and importance of the service (e.g., national, state, local), by the degree of client satisfaction and productivity it yields, by the extent of peer recognition, and by its relevance to the mission of the Department and School.
• University Service.  This category is distinct from Professional/Public Service and is expected of all faculty as a regular contribution to the Department, School, and University communities.  Its most common form is service on committees, review panels, task forces, and other working groups at all levels of the University.  It also includes service in various administrative capacities (e.g., Director of Undergraduate or Graduate Studies in the Department, Department Chair, Program Director, Associate Dean of a School or College), the extent of significance being measured by the scope and level of the responsibilities.
• Civic/Community Engagement.  Civic engagement activities shall be evaluated as research/scholarship when they entail applying one’s scholarly expertise/skills to positively impact communities (see reference to civically engaged scholarship in section III.A.l.5).