Re: Advice on Satellite Centers (fwd)

[Eric Crump <wleric@showme.missouri.edu>]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:37:20 -0500 (CDT)
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From: Livingston-Webber <mfwl@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
Subject: Re: Advice on Satellite Centers (fwd)

Jane,  I, too, am starting a satellite this fall, much like yours with the
exception of the number of hours.  It's in a dorm complex, adjacent to a
computer lab in what was once a little convenience store.  The student
residential program staff are supplying all we want in terms of furniture,
phone, etc.  We are beginning with only 6 hours/week, Tues and Wed
evenings, three hours each.  I think we will be swamped - that complex has
1800 first year
students in it.   I am already planning how to increase the hours.  All of
the tutors work 15 hours/week (they are all GAs).  I will not put anyone
away from the center for more than half their hours.  In other words, for
now, now one will be assigned more than 6 hours/week at the satellite.
THat's to keep everyone in the center of things.  What I'm having a
headache about is bookkeeping.  We're not computerized to any degree.  Our
schedule book is by hand.  So every Tues evening and ever wed evening, one
of the satellite tutors will have to make sure to take the evenings
schedule along.  We will have file space to put duplicates of anything
else.  

I'd like to raise a question I know I've seen discussed (here or on WPA),
but perhaps there are newer answers.  Does anyone have a convenient (read:
easy!) program for generating your tutor schedule - taking into account
their class schedules, babysitting arrangements, etc.?  I find this the
single most tedious, horrifying, and difficult process and, so far, I have
not been particularly happy with the results (and neither have some of the
tutors).  I get  their class schedules the THursday before classes start.
THen I have orientation duties on THurs, Fri, and Sat -- and we open on
that Monday.   Any help, computer or otherwise on how to do this?

THanks.

Joan Livingston-Webber
Western Illinois University