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Stuart,
Below are my responses to your questions. Good luck!!
Pat Pecoy, Director
Language Resource Center
Furman University
Greenville, SC 29613
864-294-3356
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I'm in the process creating a new Language Resource Center at SLU and am
seeking information on how other departments run this area of their
business:
1. Is the director a tenure-track or tenured professor? If so, how many
other courses does s/he teach and what is the teaching load at your school?
Or is this a full-time staff position?
PP: I am a tenured full professor (I was an association prof when
appointed). The normal teaching load at Furman is 5 courses per year (2 in
the fall, 1 in our very short winter term, and 2 in the spring). I have a
one course per term reduction, so my total teaching load is only two
courses per year. This is not a staff position.
2. How is funding provided? Do you assess a lab fee per student? If so,
is
it for every course every semester? Do you also receive money from the
Dean?
PP: We grovel, get down on our hands and knees and beg, and moan and groan
a lot! We have a standard operating budget, but when it comes time for
equipment replacement, we have to make a special request--one which has
been systematically denied for the past two years. I have written several
grants, wheedled equipment out of other grants, and we have a very small
endowment fund. We do not assess a lab fee per student (well, not that
they are aware of. Furman just raises tuition every year.) We do not get
money from the Dean without a lot of begging, and then only in small
amounts (ex: an emergency repair to a projection system).
3. Do you have a full-time technology person that work there or is this a
part of the director's job?
PP: I do not have a full-time tech support person. Furman has employed
one full-time person whose title is "Academic Computing Specialist for the
Humanities" and he has to cover a lot of territory! I see him rarely. I
need him often.
4. Do you employ student workers? How are they paid?
PP: Yes, we have student lab assistants who are paid (minimum wage -
%5.15/hr.) from Federal student employment funds.
5. Have you digitized your materials yet? How are you coping with
copyright
laws?
PP: Yes, we have digitized some, but not all, of our audio programs. So
far, requests to digitize materials have been granted. I have not yet run
into difficulty with this.
6. What kind of check-out system do you have for hard copy materials?
PP: We do not maintain any sort of library and do not have hard copy
materials. Students can check out CDs, etc. and do so by leaving their
student ID card with the lab assistant while they use the materials. When
they surrender the CD, they get their card back. We do not allow any of
our materials to leave the Language Resource Center. Videos can be checked
out only by faculty. Students may watch videos in the lab (with the ID
system).
Thanks for this and any other info you can provide,
Stuart
Dr. Stuart Stewart
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Southeastern Louisiana University
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
223 White Hall, SLU #10719
Hammond, LA. 70402
phone 504/549-3927
fax 504/549-3088
www.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/sstewart
"Encuentra la felicidad en tu trabajo o nunca seras feliz."
-- Cristobal Colon
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