Class 10/6: Administrative structures & budgeting,

We started the class with the technology reports and talked about how to start collecting writing both for your individual administrative reports, and for the strategic plan.

Writing/collecting sections for GA reports/Strategic plan
The current plan is to set up a google site that will have a table of contents  (editable by all of us) with links to sections of writing (posted on a file cabinet page of the same site).  We can expand the TOC, re-arrange it, and develop it as a collaborative project.  Joe has volunteered to set up a site for the Strategic plan - and I will insert it on the sidebar.  You can add your sections to the report - and help map out the table of contents (required sections) as you develop them

I suggest that you each set up a site for your Graduate Assistant Report.  Send me your site and I will insert it on the sidebar as well.  .You can use the job descriptions in the Administrative Plan as a starting point for your report.

I think we will want to set the privacy settings for these sites so that only individuals with the link have access.

Resources/materials for work on Strategic Plan and Administrative Reports
Job descriptions for Graduate assistants
Kean University Strategic Plan
Kean University Middle States Report 


I have sent you copies of the GA reports from Fall, 2010 for all four assignments.  You can use this material as a template for your report - though we may want to make changes.

You should also look through the WC Administrative Report from Spring, 2010, and any Drafts for the 2010-2011 Report that Sam is ready to share.


We spent the next part of class discussing the readings on administrative structures - and we briefly looked at the IWCA's data on Writing Centers and placed our center within the range of statistics to see where we were on staffing, hours, budget, coach pay, etc.  As you noticed from the KUWC's proposed budget - numbers are placed within/compared to the span of what comparable institutions do - so these numbers are important resources for laying a basis for costs - or requests for changes in costs or structures.

You each signed up for conferences to discuss your program of study, and your GA report.  The times/dates for appointments are as follows:

Tuesday 10/11
3:30 - 4:30 Joe (Pan of work)

Wednesday 10/12
2:45 - 3:45 Neiha (plan of work)
3:45 - 4:15 Tim (plan of work)

Thursday 10/13
1:00  Tim  (GA report)
3:15  Simone  (GA report)

Tuesday 10/18
3:30-4:30 Joe (GA report)
4:30 Simone (plan of work)

Wednesday 10/19
2:30-3:30 Josh (plan of work)
3:30-4:30 Josh (GA report)



For next week:

Read:  Readings on research at the writing center (I will leave a copy of the WPA Administrator's Resource in the WC for you tomorrow)

·         “The WPA as Researcher and Archivist” by Shirley Rose and Irwin Weiser (from The Writing Program Administrator’s Resource:  A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice;

·         “Documentation Strategies and the Institutional Socialization of Writing Centers” by Brad Peters (p. 103-114).

AND => look through (browse) the KU Strategic Plan to get an idea of how SPs are organized + what kind of info they contain.  
I am thinking our strategic plan will include some  info/background/discussion similar to what is in the Kean SP = but that the heart of it will look more like THIS. 

Write:
1. Technology plan for your position (it should respond to the list "needs" for your position that you developed last week (posted on the 9/27 blog)
2. Job description (adapted to the guidelines from Simpson - and in light of the description from the GA request); if you make "revisions" write a short narrative to justify them.  Post your job description on the Strategic Plan site under the appropriate section in the TOC.


Next class we will talk some more about data collection - and do some brainstorming on a process for writing the strategic plan (e.g. - flesh out the T.O.C. and stake out who will network, collect info + write for the different sections).