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Nancy,
I can imagine the frustration you feel with such
trivial B.S........AND I hate to think of the head
games being played. My suggestion is to talk
to the psych department again and ask if it's their
policy to give keys only to permanent
full-timers. I would offer to fill out the paperwork for a
security clearance if necessary to get the
equipment you need. Don't change your course because
of the short-sightedness of others. If you
can't get a key then bug the heck out of
campus police
to unlock and lock the facility so you can get the
TV/VCR. If you have a cell phone, maybe the
phone calls can be timed so you aren't too
inconvenienced. Sorry you are having such
difficulty.
I've watched and read your posts for some time on
TIPS and I know you are an excellent and
dedicated
instructor....... Good luck!!
Diana J. Kyle, M.A.
Psychology Department
Fullerton
College
Fullerton, California
Office: 523-0
Phone: 714-992-7166
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Arnold H. Glasow
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:10
PM
Subject: Need to vent
Friends,
I
thank you all for your help with the grade appeal question. It's my week to
abuse your kindness. I am not sure you all can help me with this, but it's
worth a shot, right?
In my new temp f/t position in the PACE
evening college program at East LA
College I teach 6-8PM M and T
nights and 8-10PM Weds (3 different sections.)
Getting a TV/VCR is
not a problem M and T but Wednesday the library closes
at 9PM so I can't
keep the TV until the end of class - it must be returned.
I asked my
supervisor what could be done, and he said that the psych
department (PACE
is separate from psych at ELAC) could arrange for a
colleague who teaches
7-10PM on Weds to help me by unlocking the video closet
for me so I can
get and put back the machine.
I was not nuts about this idea - it
seemed like a big inconvenience for the
colleague, but I was assured that
it would not be a problem. I requested a
campus phone number for the
colleague so I could check with her before I
showed up looking for help,
and I was told that since she's a long-term
substitute that she didn't
have one and not to worry about it - it was taken
care of.
I showed up this evening to teach, 10 minutes before my class, peeked
my head
in her door and asked to speak with her. She looked put out and
when I asked
for help, the answer I got was something like "Yes, I know
that's what you
were told, but I am not going to be able to help you with
this." She was
pretty rude and hostile.
Again, it's not that
so much she is declining (although if I were her, I
would have helped me
out this evening to be colleagial, and then made it
clear that I would not
do so in the future,) because I hated the proposed
arrangement too, but
the fact that I was told this would be arranged, and
that she seemed
aware, led me to imagine that she had told her supervisors
yes, and had
intended to tell me no all along, maybe hoping I would just "go
away."
At most other schools for whom I work, I have a key and can access
equipment
at will. The schools that do not give adjuncts keys have a tech
center that
is open until 10. I am not considered a "real" full
timer so I don't get a
key at ELAC. I have been offered the option
of keeping the TV past the
library closing, having the police come and
lock it up somewhere, and
returning to campus in the morning (a 25 mile
drive) to put it back. I have
contemplated buying my own small TV
with VCR internal (I can afford it) or
offering the administration some
type of collateral $300.00-$500.00 in
exchange for a key, to cover my
negligence or sudden metamorphosis into an
VCR pilfering felon.
My
video segments are very important to my lectures. I know that teachers in
other parts of the world do a good job with no technology, but I am
feeling
that my request for a TV for my whole class is reasonable so I
can't
understand why they won't accommodate. I am also
angry/disappointed with the
conduct of my colleague.
Any ideas
from similar experience? Or should I resign myself to this
stoically?
Nancy Melucci
ELAC
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