RE: released time for administrators

["Brown, Marilyn West Hall" <BrownMa@ur.sdstate.edu>]

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From: tmhogue
To: wcenter
Subject: released time for administrators
Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 11:12AM


i have to write a report on 48 hours notice describing what rank writing
center directors tend to hold *AND* how much released time they are
allowed.  i know we've been over these issues before, but i'm
thanking everyone for their kind support in advance.

help!!

1.  what is your rank?  do you hold a staff/faculty/administrative
appointment?
 --a non-tenure-track instructor--1/2 faculty and 1/2 administrative

2.  what is your teaching load?  how much released time are you allowed to
administer your center?
 --2 classes + 10 hours per week tutoring + administration

3.  what size is your institution;  how many people staff your center and
how many students do you see a semester?
 --about 7,000-7,500;  5 TAs + me; the number of students varies --The
Writing Center is only about three years old, and the word is starting to
get out around campus.  In addition, for the first time students are being
required to attend based on a screen given at the beginning of the semester
in English 101.  So . . . .   I'm new as of S98, but according to the
figures I've located, we've had on the average between 290-352 sessions
during the last  three semesters, a large portion of these are drop-ins ,
both graduate and undergraduate students, who came in only once or twice
during the semester.

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.)?
 --That 's about it.

yes, i am being allowed to write an argument for more time to do my job!!
i a non-tenure-track lecturer currently teach 3 classes and have one
class released time for writing center on a campus of 26,000 students
with a staff of 25 seeing 2700-3000 students a semester plus related
programs-- *not enough*!!  any help you can offer will be richly
appreciated!!

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Tere Molinder-Hogue           "The real voyage of discovery
CA 502L    274-5650              consists not in seeking
University Writing Center                new landscapes,
CA 427     274-2049               but in having new eyes."

                                   Marcel Proust
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