director of communications

adjunct professor

University of the Cumberlands

Daily activities include interacting with students, setting up class schedules, and keeping an accounts payable log. I work with students with disabilities as liaison between them and the Associate dean. Through the University of the Cumberlands I have earned a degree in Business Administration causing me to understand the thought process of hundreds of millions of dollars that come throught the college.
I work in the Deans office and oversee his travel and schedule his trips to over 150 different counties and several states during a calendar year. The office is full of stong independent workers that are very skilled at their specific job duties.
The hardest part of the job at the University is not being able to help every student that struggles with disabilities. My job allows me to assist them in many ways such as schedules and learning assistance.
The most enjoyable part of the job is seeing a student receive the help that they need or deserve. Being able to sit down with them and assist them in resolving a matter brings the most joy.

A typical day at work involves talking to many different types of people. I talk to residents from all over the world each and every day. A typical day also involves a lot of paperwork, including keeping a daily record of comings and goings in the office, writing memos and incident reports, and communicating all kinds of information about events on campus. I am in charge of a staff of 5 resident assistants. It is my job to train my RAs in their job and to help them develop skills that will benefit them for a lifetime. It is also my job to manage my staff and make sure that all paperwork is complete and all office tasks are accomplished while ensuring that the residence hall, and residents, are safe and secure. I am on-call at all times of the day and night when on duty since I live in the dorm in a separate apartment, and am responsible for all emergency situations that occur in the residence hall.

A typical day consisted of a six hour shift. It would require maintaining a safe living environment for residents, making sure dorm rooms were ready for students at the beginning of each year, assisting with check-in process for all students at the beginning of each semester, and checking out all students from the dorm at the end of each school year.  I was responsible for periodic room checks and maintaining the dorm for full functioning abilities.  This position gave great experience in a managerial position.  Co-workers were of multiple ethnicity and brought a broad range of culture.  The hardest part of the job was maintaining appropriate GPA and balance between this position and my college swim practices.  The most enjoyable part of this job was interacting with all the students within the dorm and creating a large group of friends.

A typical day for Multimedia and athletic services job was sometimes going out and taking photos of athletic teams, writing a story on an athletic team or social event, taking stats for athletics, video streaming, running errands, or uploading stats on computer.
I learned a lot of multimedia (photography, video) and what it takes to get projects turned in on time.
I met and became great friends with a lot of my co-workers/bosses. I enjoyed everyone and working with them.
The hardest part of the job was leaving. The job in itself was not "hard" but rewarding and I enjoyed it very much.

Other University jobs I worked a lot, doing many projects throughout the day and having to micromanage my work and classes in between. I learned about how to manage an art gallery and properly how to take care of it, run a clothing store by myself, interact with many different people.

Owning my own business was great typical day consisted of payroll of employees, training, hiring, college recruitment, tutoring students in subjects I was able to help in, cleaning and maintaining tutoring work floor, and having meetings with dean of students and president of college about once a month to show progress and statistics of success. I learned how to operate and maintain a successful business at a very early age, how to separate work from home, and how to apply my management skills for the success of the college and business. Co-workers were older than me but understood my style of management and we all worked to maintain the business. Hardest part was having to leave when I had to move for another career. Most enjoyable part was seeing that I was helping students be able to stay in college and pass their classes.

Work was typically an evening office shift a few times a week and regular on-call shifts throughout the week, in addition to ongoing meetings and team building exercises. Management was done through a series of Dorm Directors that fed information back and forth between RAs and the Dean of Student Life, and for the most part it was civil and straightforward. The dorms were always close knit groups that became good enough friends within the first few weeks of working together. The hardest part of the job was definitely taking care of students who may have been partying or needed a bit of a reminder on school policy, but they were usually sensible. The most enjoyable part of the job was eventually being someone that your fellow students can go to for help with matters at the school or some issues in their personal lives.

On a typical day, I would make sure to clock-in and ask the head coach if I need to run any errands for her. I would check the duty-list of weekly items that needs to done. Do inventory on new gear or accessories, help with goalie training, making sure the facility is clean, laundry and paint lacrosse field. Hardest part of the job is painting the field. It requires more than 1 person, but is do-able with 1 person, it is very time consuming. You have to make sure the lines are near-perfectly straight and the field is practically symmetrical when done. I learned to work well with others, and make sure that everything that needs to get done, gets done in a timely-efficient manner.

This position is demanding with little recognition and reward. The reason to do the job is to assist the college students trying to become adults and find their way while trying to find their future careers. The reason to do the job is to assist the resident assistants who are trying to balance the aboved mention things, while helping others in their struggles. If you are lucky you will have a director/manager who recognizes your work and shows the appreciation. This is a very taxing job, and is perfect if you are passionate to help others. It is not an easy job, and it will frustrate at times, but your residents and staff will need you, and that will be reward enough.

I have served as director of the Academic Resource Center for over ten years now and have enjoyed working with college age students.  I have enjoyed helping arrange tutoring appointments for students struggling with courses and then come through passing their courses.  I feel that this environment was good for me.  I have so much respect for this university.

The hardest part of the job is the fact that the students that work here graduate and go to new jobs.  

The best part of the job is knowing that I am respected for what I am able to do.

At the University of the Cumberlands (UC), I worked in the Student Service Office and helped with clerical duties; including answering phones, copying various paperwork, filing, & faxing. I worked there for two years and I enjoyed my time there. I also worked as a Resident Assistant (RA) in the dorms. I learned to work with my co-workers and how to deal with residents in almost every situation. This job also helped me to grow as a person. My work experience as a RA included 3 summers and 2 school years. Some of my best memories from college came from working as a RA and also the people I worked with.

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