But Corker estimates that he spends only 60 percent of his time there. The balance, he says, is spent in various meetings with students.
“I probably have 50 to 60 hour work weeks,” he says.
While that figure far surpasses the 35 hours per week stipulated in his original contract, Corker says he works on an unstructured schedule.
“It’s by no means on the 9 to 5,” he says.
Referring to a red tie hanging from a sprinkler, which functions as a make-shift tie-rack, Corker says that splitting his face time between administrators and students has its snags.
“Dress code is a huge issue for this job,” Corker says with a grin. “You straddle the fence and you gotta be able to play both sides.”
Corker will stay on at Harvard for another year, this time as a project manager for the Harvard Pub Nights’ feasibility study.
The Harvard College Fellowship for Campus Life, a full-time position modeled after Corker’s current post, will be filled by Justin H. Haan ’05 next year.
—Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu.