All -

Here is my 2 cents on this . It takes less than a minute to access
Reflections or Web Access to print out class rolls/rosters or schedule of
classes for your department. I do this routinely for my staff and
adjuncts.  As for the cost of ink and cartridges, office supplies are paid
for out of the departmental budgets so I don't see a problem with that. So
are white board makers for that matter.

Copies of the UTC Catalog are available for everyone - not just for the
department. If your secretary does not pick up a supply,  then stop by Race
Hall and pick-up a copy for yourself.

I do think it would be very helpful if Records could provide at lease ONE
copy of the UTC Course Timetable for each department for
advisement purposes. The present system of accessing the timetables to
provide advisement is very cumbersome for everyone.
It would make advisement a lot easier if we had a hard copy of the course
timetables.


Mary Coleman







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>From:         Marcia Noe <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      [UTCSTAFF] Paying for your own replacement I.D.
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>Hi Steve White:
>
>You may be somewhat new to UTC; I came here in 1986, so perhaps I can put
>your comment about having to pay for a replacement I.D. in context.  Some
>people, reading your e-mail, may have believed your complaint to be petty.
>It is not, if placed in the following context:
>
>One pattern I have seen developing in concert with the University's
>becoming technologically more sophisticated is an increase in costs and in
>workload for  faculty and/or departmental secretaries.  In other words,
>administrative units that used to provide support services for faculty are
>now passing on to faculty and to departments many tasks, and corresponding
>costs, that these units used to perform:  Examples:
>
>1.  Chalk was provided in all classrooms for many years; now, with white
>boards replacing blackboards, professors or departments are required to
>purchase  appropriate writing tools for whiteboards. You, the professor,
>must remember to bring your whiteboard marker to class; it won't be there
>waiting for you.
>
>2. The Records Office used to provide professors with class rosters
>periodically.  Records no longer does this.  If your departmental secretary
>does not put in a roster request to the computer center, it is up to you,
>the professor, to download your own rosters on your own computer, providing
>your own supplies (paper and ink cartridge).
>
>3.  Records used to print a schedule of classes each semester.  Records no
>longer does this.  It is up to you, the professor, to locate classes
>online.  If you need a list of departmental offerings for advisement
>purposes, it is up to you, the professor, to print this out, using your own
>supplies (paper and ink cartridge).
>
>4.  Records used to print enough copies of the university catalog each year
>so that you could get a hard copy to have on hand for advisement and other
>purposes.  Now only departments can get the print catalogs; you, the
>professor, must use a online, difficult-to-read, and error-filled catalog.
>If you need catalog hard copy to have on hand for advisement and other
>purposes, you, the professor, must download it yourself, using your own
>supplies (paper and ink cartridge).
>
>5.  Interlibrary loan used to provide copies of requested journal articles
>to professors.  Interlibrary loan no longer does this.  Now, if you order
>an article through interlibrary loan, it is up to you, the professor, to
>download what often turns out to be a barely legible article, using your
>own supplies (paper and ink cartridge).
>
>6.  University Relations used to maintain a faculty directory and a list of
>professors with expertise in various subjects.  All the professor had to do
>was send them the information and they would do the rest.  University
>Relations no longer uses this procedure. Now, in order to get into the
>directory or the list of experts or change your directory information, you,
>the professor, must go to a website and follow a cumbersome, frustrating,
>confusing, and time-comsuming procedure to fill out an online form for both.
>
>7.  A hard copy of Faculty Senate (it was Faculty Council then) minutes
>used to be provided to every faculty member.  Now, you, the professor, must
>use an attachment or website and either read a barely legible set of
>minutes on the screen or download them, using your own supplies (paper and
>ink cartridge).
>
>8.  Hard copies of forms for internal grants (Speakers and Special Events,
>Faculty Development, Faculty Research, etc.) used to be provided to each
>faculty member.  Now you, the professor, must download such forms from a
>website, using your own supplies (paper and ink cartridge).
>
>I'm sure this list could be longer.  Individually, these complaints seem
>petty. Cumulatively, they add up to a lot of extra effort, time,
>frustration and sometimes expense for the professor.  Put in this context,
>your complaint about spending $10.00 for a replacement I.D. is just one
>more piece of evidence that we are being paid less and less while we are
>asked to do more and more work and assume more and more costs-- in terms of
>both time and money.  And what's more, all this extra work does not fall
>under any of the traditional rubrics that describe a professor's job:
>teaching, research, and service.
>
>Are pay toilets next?  Probably not.  But given the pattern that has been
>developing at UTC over the past several years, as outlined above, what's
>next is bound to be something worse.
>Yours in sympathy,
>Marcia
>PS.  I am still using the I.D. I was issued in 1986.  I like it because, as
>you might imagine after 18 years here, the picture on the I.D. looks a lot
>better than I do.  Thank you for giving me a plausible excuse to keep using
>it.


Mary Coleman
Administrative Assistant II
The Department of Political Science,
Public Administration, and Nonprofit Management.
Dept. 6356,  Fletcher Hall
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
423 - 425-4281
FAX: 423/425-2373