Re: Director's Job Description

[jhyman@american.edu]

The Writing Center wrote:
> 
> I'd like to know how many directors are asked to give some of their
> hours over to tutoring; this would be aside from training tutors.  I
> have the opportunity to re-write my cryptic job description this
> summer, and it would be helpful if I can determine
> 1.  Do you do any tutoring?
> 2.  How much?
> 3. Why?
> 4. Who determines how many hours?
> 5. What % of your total responsibility is WC?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marcia Silver
> Portland State WC
> Portland, OR


Marcia--

We rewrote the WC director job description a few months ago; still, I
didn't know the answer to your question until I dug it out of the
files.   Technically, as it turns out, there's nothing in my job
description about actually sitting down with students and tutoring. 
Instead, the emphasis is on training, supervision, and evaluation.  That
said, I tutor about 6-8 hours per week.  I do this for all sorts of
obvious reasons you can readily imagine.  And I take the clients who
are, uh, problematic.  So I suppose I'm the one who determines how many
hours I tutor; and here I thought I was powerless.

John Hyman
American University
jhyman@american.edu
202-885-3911