[CAUT] CAUT job description vis-a-vis salary level (was:

[Richard Brekne]

Yes... a good point and opens a whole side of issues relative to the 
area Jon Page's note pointed at.

I think its important to remember that not all schools are going to run 
what coincides with the kind of music school some of us have in mind for 
a <<CAUT certified>> tech.  We havent even gotten so far as to define 
that yet in list discussion tho perhaps committee is well past that 
stage.  For my part I envision a person who is to head up a piano 
technology department at a larger school that is dedicated to high level 
of serious music education.  Clearly a person holding such a 
certification would be overqualified for the Flathead Valley Junior 
College.  Ok... thats overstated but you get my point.  Other schools 
situations may vary.  Administrations can relate to their music 
departments in every way from indifference to just plain thinking the 
whole department should be dropped.  Or they can be very serious minded 
and just not really know how to best develop things. Or... they may just 
have a different model for how to go about things then we think is best. 
Besides all that... Chairs change.... these things are not static. 

But just so.  A CAUT certification is nothing anyone would be forced to 
have... nor would it be something anyone directly ties salaries too.  It 
would be just another tool to work with in the job of enhancing our 
status.  And if its formed well and utilized well... it could be a 
valuable tool. 

Cheers
RicB


    Very good.
    My supervisor knew I had good managerial skills, and still they
    decided to
    outsource my job.

    Ron Poire

    former technician
    U of Mn School of Music