Well, we have three secretaries, one is full-time bookkeeper, one is
full-time receptionist, and the other secretary is really not a
secretary. She is a SIMS clerk. She handles the SIMS Program and that's
full time. What I need or could use is full-time personal secretary.
Someone to screen calls, to handle some correspondence, to screen
visitors, to make appointments and so forth. And that could make my time
more efficient and probably a lot more effective with the time I do have
to spend. So, I think that is one problem. Another problem is not really
having enough supervisors to supervise the staff. I think it is
ridiculous to think a staff of about 90-100 that you can do an adequate
job of supervising one to twenty people. With that kind of ratio and
typically in businesses a ratio is somewhere around 1-8 to 1-10 and to
really do a good job of supervising and knowing what folks are doing and
having the opportunity to work for people. That's one reason I'm
spending so much time with trying to free up department chair people and
every opportunity I can free them for an additional planning period and
I think this year we have maybe four or maybe five of the department
chair people who have four classes. Typically our teachers have five
classes where we free up department chair people to do some things for
the departments, to look at the course outlines and work with those and
to do some supervising in department administrative kinds of things. Not
administrative work that we would do but things that would enhance their
program areas. But that is a real problem—is having enough people to do
the jobs of supervision.