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>Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:12:12 -0400
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Margo Burns <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5611 Contracts and duties during intersemester sessions

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On 4/14/00, Dr. Fatima Chajia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I would like to know how many of lab (multimedia center) directors are:
>1) on a 9 month contract
>2) on a 12 month contract
>3) HAVE TO BE ON CAMPUS during the various breaks: Spring break, and the
>various intersessions -between spring semester and may semester, btween may
>semester and summer semester, etc...

I am paid year-round, as a salaried employee, to be the Director of 
The Language Center at St. Paul's School in Concord, NH.  My annual 
work-schedule is based on the faculty schedule: I am expected to be 
available while classes are in session. Because I work at a private 
boarding school which has classes six days a week, you guessed it: I 
work 6 days a week.  I get all the School holidays and vacations, 
however, including the 10-week summer vacation.  If there are 
circumstances which require my attention during those times, I am 
expected to come in to make sure the work is complete.  For instance, 
one August I had to install 30 new computers, but I was able to do it 
on my own schedule just as long as it got done before everyone 
returned from vacation. I often stay late after the school-day is 
over paying attention to little details -- but it makes for a very 
nice schedule and the best benefit of the job in my eyes: nice chunks 
of free time.

Our School has other academic-division tech support people who tend 
various labs and classrooms full of computers, but they are a part of 
the larger, more general Information Technology Group (vs. being 
members of the academic divisions which they support and reporting to 
the head of the division, as I do), and as a result, they work 5-day 
weeks for 12 months, with only a couple of weeks vacation annually. 
These have been people whose backgrounds include graduate degrees in 
the academic fields they are providing technical support for. 
They've had turn-over in those positions every year or two, however, 
but none for my position since I was the original hire for it five 
and a half years ago. I credit my annual schedule as one of the top 
reasons for wanting to stay put.

Margo



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Margo Burns       603-229-4666     [log in to unmask]      http://www.sps.edu
      Director of The Language Center, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH