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