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Maureen Porter - Service

 
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Maureen Porter
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5709 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7041
EMAIL: mporter@pitt.edu
  • Non-University Service
    • William Loeffler of the Pittsburgh Tirbune Review contacted me through the university's faculty expertise database. My scholarship and expertise on coming of age ceremonies and gender was highlighted in the interview that I gave. The resulting article was the feature cover story in the July 13, 2008 Arts section, entitled “Different cultures have different rites of passage.” (More Information...) [www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_576961.html]
  • University-level Service
    • IRB’s Psycho-social IRB Advising Committee (Education and social sciences representative) Although this group has not been active I have presented myself as available. I also attended the IRB session hosted at the School of Education for education- related concerns to take back to the Psychosocial University body.
    • Provost's Advisory Committee on Women's concerns (member)Vice Provost Patty Beeson asked me to stay on an extra year and chair the benchmarking/strategic planning subcommittee of PACWC. This is the major working group of that body. We are privileged with confidential data and charged with formulating and presenting the new ten-year strategic plan for gender equity for the University of Pittsburgh.
    • Founding member of the University Senate's ad hoc committee on gender equity, which was reauthorized by the University Senate. See the University times article at http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-DB=ustory&-Format=d.html&-lay=a&storyid=7319&-Find
    • University-Community Relations Committee of the Faculty Senate (member) The very large accomplishment of this committee, a follow-through that has to be credited to the fortitude and focus of Tracy Soska (a clinical faculty member and one of our doctoral students!) is the revision, presentation to the Senate, and acceptance of the guidelines that we prepared on engaged scholarship as part of the faculty tenure review process. Although the final wording of the resolution uses the weak and bland term "communty service," this was a political strategy that helps us to achieve our larger goals of broadening the discourse and actual practice around engaged scholarship on this campus. You can find more at http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=7327&-Find
    • Women's Studies (Steering Committee member, now a formalized, offical position that carries more duties and responsibilites as a result of our year-long process of making explicit, debating, and reforming the governance structure of this arts and sciences program area)