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Faculty members in U.S. universities are charged to perform in three areas: Teaching, Research, and Service. Service includes contributions to the profession, institution, college, department, students, and the community. This chapter contains 12 poems about various categories of service: attending professional conferences, serving as a grant reader, serving on external dissertation committees, serving on external tenure and promotion committees, giving speeches to community groups, meeting students outside of office hours, etc.
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Piirto, J. (2016). Poems Written in Service of “Service”. In: Galvin, K.T., Prendergast, M. (eds) Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_10
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