Departmental:
2009 The usual committees, the most time consuming of which was Scheduling, which I co-chair. I chaired the Southwest Center Search Comm. in the spring, 2009.
University:
2009 Continued to solicit records for Labor Archives in Library & interview labor leaders for the oral history program.  Congressman Bill Archer Scholarship Committee.
Overview:  I hold the departmental record for service on the department's Tenure and Promotion Committee.  Over the years I have served on the usual variety of departmental, college, and university committees as well as being faculty sponsor years ago for the Young Democrats and the History Club.  I believe my most distinctive service has been the enhancement of the University's archival holdings:

In 1967, working with Head Librarian John Hudson, we founded the Texas Labor Archives and the Texas Political Archives located in UTA Library.  I have been in the field collecting labor and political records since that time.  The Labor Archives, which include some labor records from neighboring states, is the only depository of union recoreds in the Southwest; it is thus preserving a vital part of American industrial history.  Numerous term papers and a few theses, scholalry articles, and books have benefited from the archival records.  The collection is useful to students in New South, Labor History, Texas HIstory, Urban History, Labor Economics, and Political Science courses on politics.  The NEH Fellowship (1970) allowed me to spend a year researching the archives.  The Zale Foundation grant (1971) allowed me to interview some 20 veteran labor leaders on tape, especially minority group leaders.  As Director of the AFL-CIO Federal Prison Programs, 1973-74.  I gained new insights into the operationof organized labor and participated in the making of a bit of labor history.  Off and on since 1969 I have helped organized short courses in labor leadership, economics, history, etc., for union members in the metroplex and have taught some of the subjects; UTA's Center for Business Services utilized me as an instructor when it handled all labor-related courses for off-campus groups, 1974-1977.  I was instrumental in 1976 in securing $1000 from the Texas AFL-CIO as a contribution for the Texas Labor Archives.  In conjunction with the Institute of Urban Affairs, I helped plan the full employment conference at UTA, December 1977.  I devoted considerable time to the filming of a movie on the Texas labor movment under a grant from the Texas Committee for the Humanities.  I wrote scripts, help establish the format for the filming, located sites and participants, etc. In 1979 I began showing the film to civic and labor groups, In 1983-19894, I coordinated the Sunbelt Labor Conference, a joint meeting of the Southern and Southwestern Labor History Association.  It was the only time these conventions were held jointly, March 1984, and the first history convention ever held on this campus.  Many departmental members served on panels.  For 1987-1988 I was awarded $2500 by the American Income LIfe Insurance Company, the Texas AFL-CIO, and other labor sources to hold interviews with veteran Texas labor leaders. In 1991-1992 Roy Evans and I were awarded $5000 for the same purpose, which was matched by the Texas AFL-CIO.  Evans and I and a few others established the Texas Labor Movement Foundation in 1992.  It funds my trips to collect records as well as to conduct oral histories.  In 2003 I collected $1000 from the Machinists to help fund my travel.