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Re: What do you call your workers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rizzo, Jim)
Wed Mar 20 12:23:12 2013
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From: "Rizzo, Jim" <JRIZZO@providence.edu>
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Joint Technology AssistantŠ hmmmmmŠ. ;)
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On 3/20/13 11:20 AM, "Mike Malsed" <mike.malsed@CLAREMONTMCKENNA.EDU>
wrote:
>I tried Lackeys (loved the term when I played City of Villains) but it
>just didn't fly. Minions (or Twinkies, as I call them) came closer but
>still no love there. . . sigh.
>
>All of our students are under the Student Technology Assistant Team's
>umbrella and all carry the xTA nomenclature:
>
>LTA - Lab Technology Assistants
>RTA - Resident (or Residential) Technology Assistants
>ITA - Instructional Technology Assistants (work with our Educational
>Technologists and faculty to develop materials)
>JTA - Joint Science Technology Assistants (work with our Keck Joint
>Science department to help with tech there)
>
>We used to have several UTAs - User support Technology Assistants
>We had a PTA - President's Technology Assistant
>We had several more. . . but were noticing the proliferation of letters,
>and since EACH of them has to have a separate and specific job
>description (in duplicate - one FWS, and one non-FWS) that is updated
>each year, we consolidated everything aside from the main four into . . .
>
>OTA - (any guesses?) Other Technology Assistant
>
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