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v C -Jt, . "I have been at the top of my (job) \ for two vears. and I have received i *" " T"~ .7" ~ " raise except for a cost of living inci ?Gretcl USC employee c seeks reclassific By Jan Easterling 0?m*cock Staff Writer A university employee who requested reclassification more than two years ago is still awaiting the decision of the state Personnel Division and has filed a grievance with university personnel. "The issue I was filing under concerned my job description being submitted for reclassification two years ago," said Gretchen Laatsch, assistant programming director for the Russell House University Union. Laatsch has announced her resignation effective May 1979, but said the grievance was not the main factor, although it did influence it. **? HAVE! hpon cat ttio fnn nf mu ( 1aK\ mkb>Ia *?? ?? - wiv vi iiij \jvm/ 5& auc iui ivvu years, and I have received no raise except for a cost of-living increase," she said. Laatsch said after she requested reclassification, she was told a survey of union positions throughout the Southeast would be done. Soon afterwards, a state wide freeze on all state employee salaries and hiring was enacted. "While the freeze was on nothing was done, not even the survey," she said. When the freeze was lifted, Laatsch said she was told the survev would be done on the entire student affairs staffs state wide by state personnel. After two people had been assigned to review her position and still no decision had been made, Laatsch said she initiated the grievance procedure. LAATSCH PRESENTED her grievance to Thomas Otts, Russell House director. She then presented it to James Campbell, vice president of student affairs, who said he could not act on it but that the grievance had to be taken to state personnel. T7* 11 _1 L r an snorx cours By Victoria Aldrich The Department of Short Courses and Conferences under the Division of Continuing Education has grown in the past four years, according to director Frances Blanton. The department has 1,500 more participants this fall than in 1975-1976. Few USC students are among the 3,500 enrolled in this year's program, Blanton said. MORE BUSINESS and professional groups take advantage of these courses which offer no credit hours, hut a chance for personal development, she said. Short courses are academic, personal or business courses which meet twice a week from 7 p.m. to 9 n m fnr a. civ trtAinhtwppk ra>rinH Ttlnntnn sAirl RA short courses will oe offered this fall. Conferences last one or two days, usually on the weekends, and are designed to meet the educational needs of the people attending. Six conferences are planned for the fall. thk tusi oi eacn conference ana snort course vary from $20 to $70, depending on the length of the |M Intern SHHSB?^[h| 1031 A r-"i i Reg. $1.0! |^On)y at 1091 A ;,ade HMB|U 10 :: v : ten Laats^h ation "I did not take the next step of going to the president, although I regret it now/' Laatseh said. ?1 J -J?? ? ii i ? -? ?*- ? * urcjr jiiuLwuiy wiuuu i uave uune unyuimg out give E me sympathy.*' | Laatsch said since then she has terminated her I responsibilities concerning the R.G. Bell Camp 1 recreational center. "I told them I would give up ^ some responsibilities if I would not be compensated if for them." I 1 AATSTH fiAfn tAohriinnl pHiirntinn rflntpru f surveys on union employees' positions were completed and reclassified last spring. Laatsch's job description includes operating policies and procedures and responsibility for the overall management of the programming area, travel center and Bell Camp. She is also responsible for full and part-time employees, volunteers and wnrlr ofnrlvr chiHimto "V* Wk UiUUVAlUJ. ft "I'm not the only one in this situation, she said, "My only concern is that myself and many other people have been hung up in this for many months." LAATSCH SAID Otts and Campbell had done everything they could for her, "but I can't believe that for a maior institution thev (state Dersonnel( have taken so long. I can't believe that there is no one at this institution that can influence someone in state personnel to take action." "There are a number of other people involved in the occifinatii^nc ntViap tVior nrAf/tkon " Alfn c-nirl & WAVIOOUIV??l'iVIfttJ VUIV1 UIUJ. VXi^Wll^l) VllO OOIU. "Obsiously the reason they (state personnel) are taking so long has nothing to do with her personally." ,es are popular program. Anybody in the state can put on these conferences and short courses, Blanton said. The department provides services by bringing together patrons and qualified persons. Instructors are members of the business community and USC faculty. Blanton said they try to get an expert in a certain field to direct t that program. The short courses will take nlace in the WaHp I Hampton Hotel where the department of Short Courses and Conferences is located. Courses also will I take place in the Coliseum, Nursing, Humanities, and Pendleton buildings and the Blatt Physical Education renter COURSES INCLUDE college preparatory, business investment, speedwriting, shorthand, typing, arts and crafts, home and garden, personal assertiveness, music, sports and dance. The department is planning the fourth International Conference on Meiofauna are in 1980. 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