A Week in the Life - Part 1

I figured that perhaps for some of you - there is a yearning to know the day to day work of a college professor/administrator. So I would like to provide a bit of a glimpse into the week that was. It is also a great reflection exercise in being able to process some of the events of the last week.

This past week has been a continuance of a month of hurried preparation. One is prepping Free Servant for their ministry at Treasured Foundation 2010. Another is preparing for the sabbatical of our Academic Dean. (I'm taking on some of his responsibilities during the next 6 months.) And most significantly preparing for a couple weeks of teaching/ministry in Belize in January. (I know - rough life having to leave Manitoba for three weeks in January to go to Belize.)

One of the exciting things that we have been working on is a new intensive ministry apprenticeship program that we are processing and imagining. I'm excited about the potential of this program and am hoping that we will be able to announce something soon about it.

The other major development this week was our decision as a college to introduce a new Student Information Software solution. For most of you - your eyes likely glaze over at something like this but for us this is a significant step. It means that many of our academic services will be fully supported through online processes. Information will be available in a much more user-friendly format. And I have been elected/appointed as the project manager for the implementation of Populi. I'm pretty excited about working with this project, even though it will mean approximately 6-9 months of data migration and set-up work. We are hoping to have the system fully functional by September.

Those are some of the big rocks. The other work is centered around making sure that the exams are ready to go for Thursday and Friday, and getting some artwork for a Christianweek ad finished.

I was also privileged to lead a worship leaders seminar at the Steinbach CMC this past Saturday. They were a good group of people, with lots of good interaction, considering it was 9am on a Saturday morning.

Together with work is the seasonal attendance of Christmas programs that fills any available slots in the calendar. Kirsten was a part of the SCHS Christmas program last night, which was a very well done program. Especially considering the expected chaos that accompanies a typical program involving grades 5 and up. Well done.

So there it is - a bit of a glimpse into my week.