Professionals need to be players in the arena of their professions. Professionals need to be "citizens" in the various kinds of communities in which they are engaged.
Most professionals belong to at least one professional society, and usually to several.
They also may belong to community service organizations, such as Rotary International, the one I belong to (my local club is Muncie [Indiana USA] Sunrise Club).
They may also be active in religious or philosophical organizations such as churches, synagogues, mosques, temples. [Nota Bene "Mosque" derives from the Arabic word for "temple.]
They may also be politically active and belong to a political party.
In all these activities, you see the model for engaged professionals--active in their professions, active in their communities. Professionals aren't just workers or managers--they are citizens, part of the "city," the community in which they are engaged.
With that theoretical background, I reproduce here the publicity announcement of the election in which I participated in the international professional organization Pacific Telecommunications Council.
Jay Gillette Elected to PTC International Council
Jay Gillette (Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University) has been elected to the Advisory Council of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC: www.ptc.org), for a four-year term from 2005-2009. Election results for the 33-member, international advisory body to the PTC Board of Governors were announced at the end of December 2004. In a further development, he was nominated for Chairman of the Advisory Council at the PTC's annual conference in January 2005, and was elected by the council to lead it for a two-year term, from 2005-2007. He has been a member of PTC for 10 years, is a member of its Research Committee, has presented papers at a number of its international conferences, and published three papers in its journal, Pacific Telecommunications Review.
Freshman Connections Speaker - Malcolm Gladwell
Event Information
Date
9/20/2005
Time
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Venue
Emens Auditorium
Audience
General Audience
Additional Information
Author, Malcolm Gladwell will be speaking in Emens Auditorium in regards [sic] to The Freshman Common Reader for 2005-2006. This years book title is: The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
Contact Information
Name
Paul Ranieri
Phone
285-8406