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                 GLU Extension Course News
               "Creating & Maintaining GLUs"

                            
                        Instructors



No instructor no GLU.  Without instructors GLU will not be going
too far.   Instructors are part of the bread and butter of GLU.
Which part is left to the imagination. 

Getting
GLU/Seattle does not beg people to participate.  GLU is looked
at more in terms of water seeking its own level. It will make it
of it will sink.  The catalogs can include any information you 
would think necessary to get people interested in teaching.

Press releases and other PR work with the public should always
stress teaching.  

Support
Teaching space
GLU/Seattle obviously does not have a campus of its own. Often
times instructors will be short of a place to teach.  GLU can
offer any number of locations that it knows about. Many of the
places that GLU can refer the teachers to are either free or low
cost.   

The major advertiser and supporter of GLU/Seattle is a place
called CrossRoads Learning Center.  This is a non profit 
organization that provides meeting space for all sorts of 
events.   Whenever a instructor requires assistance in finding 
a place to rent I refer them to CrossRoads.  It is sort of 
slowly turning into the unofficial campus for GLU.  

Researching the meeting spaces available in your are is a good
start. Collect the names and telephone numbers of the people 
so that you can make a list and pass it on to the instructors
when they call.

How to guide
GLU/Seattle will bend over backwards to help the instructors in
anyway possible to assist them in getting their workshop off the
ground.  
	Press releases
	Pep talks
	Hand holding
	One on one consultations
	Room rentals
	Encouragement in any form
	Reality checks
	Writing up the course insert in the catalog
	They name it.

Flexibility

This is a very important point.

GLU/Seattle has found it most important to remain as flexible as 
when dealing with instructors. For instance it is difficult for 
many to know in advance where it is exactly that they will be
teaching.  So they are encouraged to put the class in the catalog
with TBA, to be arranged.  They then can look around and locate
the place they most feel comfortable with.

Also teachers are encouraged to advertise say a month or even more 
in advance of their class to generate interest.  For instance
GLU is planning camping trips this summer and has advertised that
fact in the original catalogs.

GLU/Seattle is willing to make any changes to the catalog listing
each month to fit the needs of the instructors.

People that have taught in the first few catalogs will never have
to pay again.   They have taken the word support and made it a
reality.  So to them they will get support in return from GLU.
GLU appreciates these people stepping forward and saying that they
believe in the idea of GLU and what it is attempting to do.



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Tom Hicks   
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GLU - Gay Lesbian University/Seattle  
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