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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Greetings!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I’m currently working with my HR department regarding fair compensation for our Assistive Technology Coordinator positions.
Alarmingly, my research indicates ATHEN’s 2008 survey (<a href="https://itd.athenpro.org/node/87">https://itd.athenpro.org/node/87</a>) seems to be the most recent study of its kind that attempts to gather compensation\salary information specifically for access
technologist positions in higher education. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Terril Thompson’s (University of Washington) paper in the ATHEN E-Journal Issue #4 (2009) (<a href="https://athenpro.org/node/88">https://athenpro.org/node/88</a>)
entitled “Careers in Accessible Technology in Higher Education: Salaries, Qualifications, and Responsibilities” seems to be the “Staffing and Salaries” portion of the survey, but published separately. Unfortunately, my HR Department has deemed Study #1 invalid
for its purposes due to its relatively low sample size (1 Texas respondent), and its survey of posted job announcements rather than actual participants.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">On the other hand, although Study #2 does analyze responses submitted by participants, the author does not break
down reported US positions by specific geographic location (Results section): “Geographically, 66 of the positions (69.5%) were located in the United States, 11 (11.6%) in the United Kingdom, 10 (10.5%) in Canada, and 6 (6.3%) in Ireland. Australia and New
Zealand contributed profiles of one position each.” Once again, my HR Department judges these results invalid due to the lack of statistics attributable to post-secondary institutions specifically located in my home state\geographic region.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">QUESTIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Has ATHEN conducted a more recent survey on access technology salaries in Higher Education?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Has your institution used the ATHEN survey data to help inform compensation\salary levels for your access technologist position?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you so much for your responses!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Joseph M. Nast,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Assistive Technology Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Lone Star College Cy Fair, Disability Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Office Phone:
</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(281) 290-3207<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Website URL:</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
<a href="http://www.lonestar.edu/19287.htm"><span style="color:blue">http://www.lonestar.edu/19287.htm</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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