Posted by Jerome Davis in New Course Supervisor position

Posted by Vice Admiral Daniel Lerner (Commandant) in New Course Supervisor position
The Academy has always had to find the right way to balance its fleet and department duties. At the time when there were three to four ships, it made sense to have additional admin support on the fleet side, with other members of the Academy staff being able to divide their time between the fleet and department responsibilities - this led to the creation of the Assistant Fleet Liaison Officer (AFLO).

We are now down to a single Academy ship. At the same time, there is a growing interest in using current Academy department resources to help with a renewed interest within the club. A re-alignment is needed in how the Academy uses available resources (which in plain English, means where we need available volunteers and experience). I am therefore planning on making two changes this term to the Academy staff organization.

First, I will be officially eliminating the AFLO position (which hasn’t been filled in a couple terms now). I will post a mandate to make this official at the same time that I finalize the mandate for the discussion below.

Second, I want to create a new position dedicated for supervising the courses. I envision this position having the following responsibilities:
1) Overall supervision of the content of all of the courses, and approving content changes
2) Ensuring tutors remain active
3) Making recommendations to the ACmdt for new tutors or replacement tutors
4) Making recommendations to the ACmdt for new courses (or to remove a course)
5) Ensuring standardization of exams and grading for courses at similar levels
6) Preparing graduation certificates, etc. and ensuring the graduation list is updated
7) Marketing and promoting the courses

I envision that the person filling this position would generally not change from term-to-term, and instead, like an Executive Assistant, would be expected to keep the position until they stepped down or the ACmdt felt a replacement was needed. This is to balance against the term-to-term replacement of the ACmdt/VCmdt, and to ensure that a clear understanding of the courses is preserved from term-to-term, and that projects that may take longer than a term (such as a course re-write) can be worked out without risk of a changeover of the people working on that.

What does everyone think about this? Are there proposed responsibilities that should be added or removed? Any concerns about my thoughts that the person keeps the position from term-to-term?

Also taking suggestions for position titles. Currently I have “Head Proctor” but that may be a bit boring.

(I would like to keep this discussion focused on the position rather than the courses themselves. After this position is filled, we will resume an older Command discussion about what the goals, etc. are of the courses.)

Daniel Lerner
Academy Commandant

So… an Academic Dean or Registrar? (Hey, if we’re going to have an Academy, we should use titles from Academia!

Condor

This honestly sounds incredibly interesting and would be one of the very few Admin-ie type positions I would be interested in filling