RE: released time for administrators

["Jane V. Nelson" <JNelson@UWYO.EDU>]

The situation at the University of Wyoming (10,000 students): 

	1.  what is your rank?  do you hold a staff/faculty/administrative
> appointment?
> 
I am a director at will.  It's an administrative appointment, I guess.  I
designed the position to fit my needs, so it's a 75% job.  It's also for 9
months.  That is, it's both 75% (30 hours per week) and 9 months.



> 2.  what is your teaching load?  how much released time are you allowed to
> administer your center?
> 
No teaching load, unless I want to.  Sometimes I volunteer to teach a
one-credit hour first year orientation course.  Other times (like this
semester), I teach a 3-credit hour honors course in return for some funds to
hire undergraduate interns.

> 3.  what size is your institution;  how many people staff your center and
> how many students do you see a semester?
	10,000 students.  We have about 1000 conferences a semester.  We
also do about 40 outreach programs a semester (classroom presentations and
workshops).  We have a staff of 8 (academic professional lecturers from the
English Department) and 3 undergraduate student interns.

> 4.  what programs, besides the simple task of training tutors and
> administering the smooth running of the center, are you also in charge of
> (wac, consultants to faculty, etc.)?
> 
I coordinate WAC on campus:  all students are required to take two
writing-intensive courses beyond the first year writing course, and I
coordinate that program.  I sit on the general education committee.
I also am centrally involved (unofficial assistant director) with the Center
for Teaching Excellence.

You definitely need to rewrite your job description to become at least 50%!

Advice:  don't use the phrase "release time" to describe what you do.  

Jane Nelson
jnelson@uwyo.edu