Re: released time for administrators

[kcain@merrimack.edu (Kathleen Shine Cain)]

>Tere--Boy, do you need more support!  This is what Merrimack College's
>writing center features:
>
>1.  what is your rank?  do you hold a staff/faculty/administrative
>appointment?

WC director is a faculty appointment within the English Dept, with an
administrative component.  We rotate the directorship among 3 qualified
faculty, two of whom are full profs and one currently in her fourth year as
assistant prof.
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>2.  what is your teaching load?  how much released time are you allowed to
>administer your center?

Teaching load for the center is one course per semester (normal load is
four).  We do not consider this release time, insisting that the wc is a
teaching site and therefore wc work is teaching.
>
>3.  what size is your institution;  how many people staff your center and
>how many students do you see a semester?

Merrimack has 2000 undergraduates; we have about 700 appointments per
semester.  Because we have a writing fellows program in which student
tutors are assigned to particular classes, our staff is high:  about 30
student tutors, and two professional tutors--who work two nights per week
each.
>
>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.)?

Because of the writing fellows program, there's a good deal of de facto wac
work invovled in directing the center.  Meetings with faculty who either
want or are using writing fellows, communication with administration
regarding the program--that sort of stuff is also involved.
>
>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!!

I can't believe that you're still breathing with this work load!  Hope this
helps,   Kathy Cain, Merrimack College
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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."
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