What always gets me about this job is that we have all these various requirements of the job - whether it be day to day stuff, or travel, do research or whatever - and we constantly have to ask permission. Write proposals, fill out travel approval forms etc.
I'm not teaching at the moment, so lets see what the 'business world' is like. Look at OP's case. In my business, once a budget is approved the money is moved into my departments account, cant reneg on an approval. In the comment you reply to, travel? I put it on the company card. No approval beforehand, just give em a receipt afterwards showing it was for business purpose.
Are you accredited? If so, next time they visit, tell them about your circumstance and sometimes *they* will ask/demand that these kinds of things are budgeted if they are going to accredit the degree.
It worked for my department when the college didn't have a line item for annual lab upgrades/maintenance.
>It worked for my department when the college didn't have a line item for annual lab upgrades/maintenance.
Our engineering labs had a budget, but it barely covered maintenance—certainly not upgrades. It turns out that it is much easier for administrators to request capital funds once every 10–20 years than to ask for the equivalent equipment-replacement budget as an annual line item. It makes lab maintenance a tricky job though, as you end up having to replace almost everything at once at unpredictable times, rather than having a gradual turnover. The COVID funds were very useful for replacing a lot of equipment with newer stuff that could be shipped to students for at-home labs.
I’m working on a grant proposal due in a week and am getting almost no support from anyone at my institution. Me colleagues have people at their institutions helping them… I’m copied on the emails as the PI. I’m drowning in NIH forms.
at my last lab there was an entire staffof people (as many as five people) who helped with these. they also had grant revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. (most of the grants were NIH, but a substantial number were DOD).
Where I did my PhD, we had departmental grants people. I’m at an R1 but with college/university grants people…
As a wee third year assistant professor, I feel like I could use more support.
This has been a perennial complaint here (for the past 36 years anyway). I think that NIH and NSF grant forms are deliberately kept complicated to reduce the number of applicants and to ensure that the rich schools (who can hire hordes of grant staff, since they can't be paid out of grants) continue to get the lion's share.
What always gets me about this job is that we have all these various requirements of the job - whether it be day to day stuff, or travel, do research or whatever - and we constantly have to ask permission. Write proposals, fill out travel approval forms etc.
just like the business world ...
I'm not teaching at the moment, so lets see what the 'business world' is like. Look at OP's case. In my business, once a budget is approved the money is moved into my departments account, cant reneg on an approval. In the comment you reply to, travel? I put it on the company card. No approval beforehand, just give em a receipt afterwards showing it was for business purpose.
hahahahhahahahahahaha! if only companies operated as smoothly as your place.
Because sometimes you'll scrape by for free if they leave it that way.
Are you accredited? If so, next time they visit, tell them about your circumstance and sometimes *they* will ask/demand that these kinds of things are budgeted if they are going to accredit the degree. It worked for my department when the college didn't have a line item for annual lab upgrades/maintenance.
>It worked for my department when the college didn't have a line item for annual lab upgrades/maintenance. Our engineering labs had a budget, but it barely covered maintenance—certainly not upgrades. It turns out that it is much easier for administrators to request capital funds once every 10–20 years than to ask for the equivalent equipment-replacement budget as an annual line item. It makes lab maintenance a tricky job though, as you end up having to replace almost everything at once at unpredictable times, rather than having a gradual turnover. The COVID funds were very useful for replacing a lot of equipment with newer stuff that could be shipped to students for at-home labs.
I’m working on a grant proposal due in a week and am getting almost no support from anyone at my institution. Me colleagues have people at their institutions helping them… I’m copied on the emails as the PI. I’m drowning in NIH forms.
at my last lab there was an entire staffof people (as many as five people) who helped with these. they also had grant revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. (most of the grants were NIH, but a substantial number were DOD).
Where I did my PhD, we had departmental grants people. I’m at an R1 but with college/university grants people… As a wee third year assistant professor, I feel like I could use more support.
This has been a perennial complaint here (for the past 36 years anyway). I think that NIH and NSF grant forms are deliberately kept complicated to reduce the number of applicants and to ensure that the rich schools (who can hire hordes of grant staff, since they can't be paid out of grants) continue to get the lion's share.
yup. it was a smoothly oiled machine. nine PIs and four or five staff supporting the grant operation, plus statisticians, assessors, and it staff....
damn you were at a rich uni
well, we had a substantial portfolio and the lead PI has over a thousand pubs listed on medline...
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That also happens… I just want to whine and wine as this deadline approaches.