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>From: Mike Ledgerwood <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #9067.3 (!) dual assignments: managing a lab and teaching
>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:38:14 -0600
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Tina, I think it is almost possible to say that there are as many  
different kinds of center director positions as there are center  
directors!  In my first position I was full-time faculty and wound up  
being Language Center Director on top of that.  Frankly, not the best  
of positions if you try to compare the work a center director should  
do with others doing committee work, etc....In my second position I  
was half-time center director and half-time faculty.  Still a tough  
call at the research institution where I was but it would be much  
better at a different kind of place.

The one point that is very important to reiterate here is that  
whatever your position, you need to negotiate so that the job is  
"doable".  Thus, if you are teaching for the first time, you will  
need to negotiate to get extra staffing help so that what you were  
doing before teaching isn't compromised by the new duties or that  
your center doesn't suffer.

Administrators (in general) always wants to get more from less.  Yet  
what they wind up getting is less from less.  Hard lesson to learn,  
but....

That said, I certainly agree with David Pankratz that doing some  
teaching is almost always a good thing for center directors (provided  
again that they and their centers are compensated for this) for the  
reasons David expressed so well.

Best, Mike Ledgerwood

Mikle D. Ledgerwood, Ph.D.
Chair of World Languages and Cultures
Professor of French
Samford University
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