Hi George,
We are talking about 10 years ago. Fortunately, I never actually get around to cleaning out my email inbox (I do try to weed out to keep it below 10,000), so I did a quick search and found the following as the proposal for a "CAUT Academy" in 2009. This is just to give you an idea of what we were thinking at the time, the "we" meaning mostly Eric Wolfley, Don McKechnie, Alan McCoy and myself. Eric was talking the lead at that point.
CAUT Academy March 27 – 29, 2009
Friday – Morning Session
Workplace / Career
Applying for jobs, constructing resumes
Negotiating salaries
Working with contracts
Benefits
Etc.
Friday – Afternoon Session
Working with the Administration
Facilities Management
Humidity control
Improving an existing space
Planning for a new space
Etc.
Equipping a shop, maintaining parts inventory
Saturday – Morning Session
Inventory Analysis and Management
Constructing and using databases
Loaner programs
Budgets
Etc.
Saturday – Afternoon Session
Using the Guidelines for Effective Institutional Piano Maintenance
Using the Workload Formula
Developing a maintenance strategy
Saturday – Afternoon, evening
Tour of UMKC with Kent Swafford (I haven't asked him about this yet)
Sunday – Morning Session + After lunch session
Techniques for servicing high-use pianos
Special Topics for Institutional Work
Exit Exam?
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Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm@unm.eduhttp://fredsturm.nethttp://www.artoftuning.com"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Casteneda
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-21-2018 09:20
From: George W. R. Davis
Subject: Seeking Ideas and volunteers for PTG CAUT committee
CAUT Goals
I've been following the discussions on PTG-L about previous CAUT efforts and reviewing the CAUT committee charges. I <g class="gr_ gr_32 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep" id="32" data-gr-id="32">admit,</g> I have some homework to do. I want to know your thoughts regarding the committee objectives, what PTG can do to assist the CAUT community, and how we can energize CAUT technicians. I know we will need to recruit some new committee members as well. Some folks on the committee have moved out of the CAUT environment back to the private sector. Before I start twisting arms (tongue in cheek), I would love to have some volunteers.
Here is what is currently on the committee's plate:
"This committee shall serve to promote the specific interests of college and university technicians. This committee shall maintain an updated list of college and university technicians. Additional activities may include publication of a regular newsletter, development of educational opportunities, and/or other special projects."
Propose classes for College and University Technicians at the PTG Institute and encourage continuing education. Submit plan and budget to Institute Director by Institute deadlines.
Suggest creative ways to market RPT and CAUT-specific services to institutions and non-member technicians.
Produce newsletters to post on the CAUT website in November and April.
Report on progress to the PTG Board of Directors.
I would like to look at the work previous committees have done regarding a CAUT curriculum. I am woefully ignorant of what transpired and what exists. Help, please.
Thanks in advance
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