Our department has continuing grave concerns about our current level of staffing. Growing numbers of traditional students coupled with the influx of PTECH students have left our department in a precarious state.  The PTECH program alone adds between 40 and 50 new students each year to our program.  Given the rolling three-year cycle of these students, cumulatively this can amount to 120 and 150 additional students each year.  We do not have sufficient staff to continue to offer additional classes of equivalent quality and maintain the same level of service for our matriculated students.

As such, last year we submitted a request for another full-time, tenure-track line.  Unfortunately, although we identified a qualified candidate for this position, the candidate did not accept and this line remains unfilled.  It is imperative that we fill this line as it impacts our ability to offer sufficient courses to service both our traditional students as well as our PTECH students.

The person filling this line should have general knowledge of networking, systems administration, and programming / scripting.  Optimally, they would also have experience in Web development or virtualization and cloud computing.  As we intend to start offering more courses in these areas, an additional faculty member with relevant experience is indicated.  This position will help to alleviate our growing staff and scheduling issues. 

Note:  The resources number for this position was obtained in the following manner:  the base salary is from the Instructor 1 rate from the latest contract, along with 42.6% added for benefits (as suggested in the "Resource Planning Tips" document distributed during the PIP training sessions).

It is a top priority of the Department to fill the recently vacated Chair position.  Finding a suitable full-time, dedicated replacement is imperative in order to ensure that the administrative and leadership operations of the Department remain functional.  Someone needs to provide organization, leadership, and technical direction both for our staff and our students.  Whomever is chosen to helm the Department needs not only managerial skills, but should possess a wide-ranging breadth of technical knowledge as well as a deep understanding of current industry practice.

  Our current departmental administrator (secretary) works only part-time.  Our growing department requires a full time administrator.  The number and complexity of administrative tasks grows rapidly as the number of our students continues to rise.  The addition of PTECH students will only exacerbate this issue.  In addition to managing tasks for our department, our administrator also serves as the supervisor for work-study students who staff the open labs routinely used by students from our and other departments throughout the BioTech building.

Note:  the salary figure under the Resource tab was generated as follows:  base salary of $31314.01 ($17.2055 / hr  *  35 hrs/wk  * 52 wk    =   31314.01, the hourly rate was obtained from HR) with 42.6% benefits allocation = $44653.78.