--- Forwarded Message from Margo Burns <[log in to unmask]> --- >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >Organization: None. >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 ------------------ 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 -- Margo Burns 603-229-4666 [log in to unmask] http://www.sps.edu Director of The Language Center, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH