--- Forwarded Message from Mike Ledgerwood <[log in to unmask]> --- >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >From: Mike Ledgerwood <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #9067.3 (!) dual assignments: managing a lab and teaching >Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:38:14 -0600 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> Tina, I think it is almost possible to say that there are as many different kinds of center director positions as there are center directors! In my first position I was full-time faculty and wound up being Language Center Director on top of that. Frankly, not the best of positions if you try to compare the work a center director should do with others doing committee work, etc....In my second position I was half-time center director and half-time faculty. Still a tough call at the research institution where I was but it would be much better at a different kind of place. The one point that is very important to reiterate here is that whatever your position, you need to negotiate so that the job is "doable". Thus, if you are teaching for the first time, you will need to negotiate to get extra staffing help so that what you were doing before teaching isn't compromised by the new duties or that your center doesn't suffer. Administrators (in general) always wants to get more from less. Yet what they wind up getting is less from less. Hard lesson to learn, but.... That said, I certainly agree with David Pankratz that doing some teaching is almost always a good thing for center directors (provided again that they and their centers are compensated for this) for the reasons David expressed so well. Best, Mike Ledgerwood Mikle D. Ledgerwood, Ph.D. Chair of World Languages and Cultures Professor of French Samford University [log in to unmask] IALLT President-Elect *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************