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>Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:29:15 -0800
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6509.1 Lab Director/Coordinator/pecking order? (!)

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I imagine that nomenclature is treated so differntly in different 
places that what is important is how the position is treated and how 
you are treated in the position.  My title is "Director", but I gave 
myself the title (and it seems to be the most common for what I do).

We are understaffed, and there will always be a chance that someone 
will want to save money by closing down the lab.  We handle more than 
730 hours/week of student practice per week (from levels 111-222) and 
an unrecorded number of hours from advanced students, which may be 
above 30/week. I work hard to keep costs down for everything, but I 
am also careful top survey student opinion and faculty satisfaction 
every semester.

So far, I find that I am treated with respect.  I do think people 
forget sometimes how hard all IT work is.

TBob
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Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee-Martin
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