Hiring committee

I am now officially on the hiring committee for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at my campus. There was some debate in the department about who would be on the committee, including the usual intradepartmental politics, and my presence was questionable for a while: I was first asked to be on the committee, then asked if I would volunteer to step down, and finally asked to be on it again.

This will probably be the last post on this topic for a while, since much of the process is confidential. But, for those of you keeping track of what I'm doing, you can add one more committee to the ever-growing list.