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>From: Bernd Conrad <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: 4-item Lang Lab Leadership survey - Thanks

SUBMITTED to CALICO and LLTI list 10/04/2000

If you direct or live nearby or inside a foreign/modern laguages 
computer lab, would you be so kind as to respond to the 4 questions 
below? Delete all answers tht do not characterize your lab. Only if 
you have the time, please respond to question 5 also. I would be more 
than happy to share the results. For the reason of this survey, see 
end of message. Thank you very much for your help. (See also (next) 
message, entitled "Replacment Cycle"

Bernd Conrad  / Northern Arizona Univeristy

T O   D E L E T E    I N C O R R E C T   A N S W E R S ,
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1. Does your lab have an Academic Director/Mentor ?

--- none at all
11 tenure stream
12 non-tenure stream
13 full teaching load
14 reduced teaching load
15 no teaching mandate
16 has *primary technical* maintenance responsibility
17 has *primary pedgoagical* leadership responsibility
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2. Does your lab have a technical manager?

--- none at all

18 full-time w/ benefits
19 part-time w/benefits
20 hourly wage, no benefits
--- do not know

22 has *primary technical* maintenance responsibility
23 has *primary pedgoagical* leadership responsibility
--- do not know

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3. Does your lab have a supervisory committee (3 members or more)?

--- none at all

24 tenure stream
25 non-tenure stream
26 mixed: tenure and non-tenure stream members
--- do not know

27 has *primary technical* maintenance responsibility
28 has *primary pedgoagical* leadership responsibility
29 has *primary pedgoagical and technical* responsibilities
--- do not know
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4.  Who authorizes lab related purchases (hardware & software)?

30 Academic Lab Director
31 Technical Manager
32 Lab Committee
33 Department Chair
34 Dean's Office
35 Provost's or President's Office
--- none of the above
--- do not know
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I F   Y O U   H A V E    T I M E    . . .
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5.  Which SERVICES should a modern computer language lab be expected 
to FACILITATE:

--- RESPONSE CODE:
--- If your lab already offers the particular service,
      leave the particular line as is
--- If you expect a lab to facilitate the particular service,
      double-click the leading number for the line and replace it with 
the letter X
--- If you do not expect a lab to facilitate the particular use,
      double-click the leading number and replace it with the letter N

A lab should offer/facilitate support for ...
36   students: practice and review of course related materials
37   students: listening to audio casette tape programs
38   students: watching videotape programs
39   students: listening to streaming web-server based or 
QuickTime-server based audio
40   students: watching streaming (real-time) server/web-based video and audio
41   students: watching DVD foreign language movies (w/subtitls and 
bonus materials options)
42   students: composition using English-language wordprocessing
43   students: composition using English-language wordprocessing with 
dictionaries
44   students: composition using Foreign/target-language wordprocessing
45   students: composition using Foreign/target-language 
wordprocessing w/ grammar checker
46   students: saving work to & retrieving work from network server 
with remote access option
47   students: sending & receiving e-mail
48   students: creating web pages
49   students: language lab web server with course enhancements & schedules
50   faculty development: learning to develop computerized materials
51   faculty development: learning to use computer hardware and software
52   faculty development: learning to use technology in classroom instruction
53   faculty use: materials development by faculty
54   faculty use: research in computer assisted language learning
55   faculty use: research in second language acquisition
56   faculty use: lab web server with support faculty materials
58   faculty efforts: evaluate software available in lab
57   faculty efforts: promote use of lab for practice, remiidial work
58   faculty efforts: search for new software to be acquired
58   faculty efforts: evaluate new software to be acquired
58   faculty efforts: develop printed materials (e.g. worksheets) to 
accompany software
58   faculty efforts: share experience in using software in the lab & 
classroom with colleagues
57   professional service: workshops on learning to use computer 
hardware and software
58   professional service: workshops on learning to develop 
computerized materials
59   professional service: workshops on learning to use technology in 
classroom instruction
60   professional service: hosting computer assisted language 
learning conferences
61   professional service: consulting (establishment of language lab, 
materials database)
61   institutional service: research projects in non-language teachng fields
62   institutional service: technology workshops for non-language 
teachng professionals
63   institutional service: access to materials for non-language 
learning students
64   outreach: organizing visits/guided lab tours for local and 
in-state schools (K-12)
65   outreach: publishing language lab newsletter
66   outreach: lab web server promoting lab services & language 
learning & cultural activities
67   outreach: showing foreign languaguage film series (subtitle; via 
DVD & videotape)
68   outreach: leacture series on CALL and language learning
69   administration:  scheduling class time access and open hours access
70   administration:  regular maintenance of hardware and software
71   administration:  annual hardware and software inventory
72   administration:  pre-purchase faculty & student survey seeking 
input to lab development
73   administration:  purchase plans: budget, and justification for 
timely input by faculty
74   administration:  purchase plans: budget, and justification for 
timely input by students
75   administration:  purchase plans: budget, and justification for 
timely input by faculty
76   administration:  pre-purchase survey seeking input to lab 
development by faculty
77   administration:  pre-purchase survey seeking input to lab 
development by students
78   administration:  publicizing to faculty & students financial 
resources on regular basis
79   administration:  access by faculty & students to budget & expense records
80   administration:    lab use policy statement for faculty & students
81   administration:  language lab mission statment
82   administration:  appointment of lab committee 
(tenure/non-tenure-stream & student rep.)
83   administration:  appointment of qualified & experienced 
technical manager of lab
84   administration:  appointment of qualified & experienced 
pedagogical direcor of lab
85   administration:  document describing role & responsibilites of 
technical manager
86   administration:  document describing role & responsibilites of 
pegagocial director
87   administration:  document describing role & involvement of 
administrative supervisor


Currently, the lab at my institutionis undergoing drastic changes. 
The postition of Lab Director was reduced to mere representational 
functions, his teachig oad was mre than doubled, and a techical 
manager was hiredat a $32,000/11 month salary. Director and Lab 
Committee were "relieved" of all fiscal resposbilites which was put 
into the hands of the newly hired technical manager. Prior to that, a 
lab improvement (replacment) plan submitted by the Committee in the 
amount $25,000 and prepared by two faculty experts in peadagogy and 
CALL was rejected by Department and later by College administrators. 
Having had to watch a plan be rejected in less than 24 hours that 
took more than a semester to develop and that had been compromised 
twice by non-negotiable budget transfers from the lab fee account, 
the technical and pedagogical Director resigned, and was replaced by 
a technical manager. The technical manger is responsible for 
equipment maintenance and student assistant supervision as well as 
accounting ($45,000 annual revenue from lab fees). The manager 
reports to the departmental administrative authority directly 
(specialist in Literature). The role of the Lab Committee is 
advisory; it has no fiscal authority; its pedagogical recommendations 
are not binding. This survey is to help assess to what extent 
disintegrated models of lab leadership and mangement may be becoming 
a trend at US Colleges and Universities. By disintegrated I mean, 
that managament of the student fee account is not informed by 
pedagogical expertise in CALL