Yesterday, the EDAD faculty met.  On the agenda was my continued service on the College's Promotion and Tenure Committee.  I have a term that ends in 2014.  But, my agreement with the chair was that if I go part time, I will not need to do any service work.  From my perspective, this was a necessary understanding to guard myself from a weakness--that of agreeing to do department, college, and university service.

I think this will be one of the markers that will signal to colleagues that I am leaving.  Maybe no one will notice.  One's name fades quickly once one becomes invisible.  Or so I suspect.

 I write this post more as a placeholder that I want to think more about this aspect of departing the professoriate and how I have come to understand the years of committee work that have been a valued part of my experience as a professor.