I'd liken it to promoting a paramedic or a paralegal where a doctor or a lawyer are needed. If there were an equivalent of a doctor or lawyer who should be applying for CAUT jobs, then by all means. But there isn't. The best this industry can come up with is an RPT. If that's only the equivalent of a paramedic, then isn't that better than a boy scout with minimal first aid experience? It's up to a university to determine if a candidate is qualified to work for them. As I said before, it is presumed the school does more than just look at the initials behind a tech's name. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> To: caut <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 4:11 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] Workload; was Position announcement On Jul 23, 2010, at 7:12 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: But lets get on the same page here. Does the PTG want to promote the RPT,or not? Yes, it seems that the official policy of PTG is gung ho, rah, rah RPT brand. I'm sorry, I am all through being a "good soldier." Promoting RPT to colleges and universities as anything other than a bare minimum on which to build is not only a waste of time, energy and money, it will backfire on us. As exemplified by Bill Balmer's post. His is not an isolated incident. I'd liken it to promoting a paramedic or a paralegal where a doctor or a lawyer are needed. Anyone who thinks RPT is the be all and end all needs to think again. Maybe it works for the general public, those who have their pianos tuned because they heard they ought to do so once and a while. It does not work for serious musical institutions. Period. They require a level of skills so far above RPT, there is no comparison. If that labels me as a (shudder) "elitist," so be it. The one way I think PTG can promote itself and its members to serious musical institutions is as a source of information and training. There is no question that PTG is very good at bringing together excellent technicians and providing at least a certain level of training - and those who want can find access to more. But it is quite clear that PTG is not really seriously in the business of certifying a professional level of skill, and probably never will be. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm http://www.youtube.com/fredsturm http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100723/d612fc9e/attachment.htm>
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