Every year in the Humanities Dept. at Michigan Technological
University after years of training and work, undergraduate and
graduate IT workers from CS, technical communication, engineering,
and HU majors leave our school. These folks have designed and run our
Humanities computing labs/classrooms/online systems. I mean, these
paid and volunteer folks REALLY design and run them. They

* set up and maintain Macs and PCs on a UNIX network;
* write scripts and programs to benefit students and teachers;
* install all manner of local and networked software;
* develop the personal and collaborative skills necessary
to talk with novice and expert users: students,
teachers, and administrators;
* research and evaluate new systems and software;
* set policies for access and security,
* help manage and spend our $160,000 budget and
* help develop a culture of support for those using their
systems.

At our yearly two-week institutes (CIWIC and ECAC) they are
consistently rated as one of the most important parts of that
experience.

They ARE my community of practice here at MTU--the heart of our
culture of support in this department--and I hate to see them leave.
But they graduate and need jobs. Many would like to stay in the
'educational' arena, K-college.

So if you are looking for quality IT people who have some sense of
how 'people' work and live with technologies or if you know the folks
who hire for your school or department, please let me know. I'll
grudgingly ;-) put you/them in touch with some wonderful people.
--

Dickie Selfe <rselfe@...>

(OO) Director of
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