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>Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 09:56:34 -0500
>Subject: What's In A Name?
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>From: [log in to unmask] (Gordon Hartig)

The discussion on job titles is apropos, as there has been talk recently
of changing my title to director.  At present I am a coordinator of a lab
with an old Tandberg system, a new CAN-8 system, and computers that are
used for a variety of computer literacy purposes.  I am part time and paid
by the hour, and on paper I report to the dean of humanities.  Our program
is smaller than the one in Vermont.  Last semester we logged 1,200
individual student visits in addition to having an average of 7-8 ESL or
Spanish classes meet in the lab each week.

The comment about a program coordinator at Goucher having teaching duties
brings back memories.  At Indiana University I taught classes when I was
program coordinator in the Learning Skills Center between 1979 and 1985.
I actually had been hired on a clerical line with the director's promise
that reclassifying the position was only a matter of time.  I don't think
it would have happened, though, had I not told them I was leaving for a
high school teaching position if the reclassification didn't materialize
by a certain date.  Interestingly enough, in 1985 I applied for a
"coordinator" position at the University of Vermont, but I withdrew my
application after learning what the salary was.

Gordon Hartig
Language Lab Coordinator
Middlesex Community College
33 Kearney Square
Lowell, MA  01852