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Feb. 23rd, 2004 12:38 pmRemodeling started on another lab today. So far, I have one room finished, two rooms almost finished, two rooms started, two rooms in planning, and two rooms still waiting to hear from the prof as to what he wants.
I just finished printing and binding this year's teaching lab modernization report (referred to as the DIN, but I don't know why). We're asking for $89k in stuff, but providing $30k in matching money, resulting in a DIN request of $59k. As usual, we're asking for some things we need, some things we'd really like, and a few things that we'd be happy to get, but are really there so the Dean's office has something to cut out of the proposal when they tell us how much they are going to fund.
There's a game we play when we submit the DIN. We think of everything we might want, figure out how much internal money we can commit to matching it (it looks better if we show that we have some internal money to put towards it), then I write up what we want, why we want it, and how much it will cost. My record so far is asking for $250k (they said 'Can you please prioritize this? You've asked for all the money we have in our budget this year'). Usually we get $30-50k funded, and then look at what we asked for, what they said we'd get funds for, and then I decide what to order, based on what I've since figured out that we actually should have asked for.
I just finished printing and binding this year's teaching lab modernization report (referred to as the DIN, but I don't know why). We're asking for $89k in stuff, but providing $30k in matching money, resulting in a DIN request of $59k. As usual, we're asking for some things we need, some things we'd really like, and a few things that we'd be happy to get, but are really there so the Dean's office has something to cut out of the proposal when they tell us how much they are going to fund.
There's a game we play when we submit the DIN. We think of everything we might want, figure out how much internal money we can commit to matching it (it looks better if we show that we have some internal money to put towards it), then I write up what we want, why we want it, and how much it will cost. My record so far is asking for $250k (they said 'Can you please prioritize this? You've asked for all the money we have in our budget this year'). Usually we get $30-50k funded, and then look at what we asked for, what they said we'd get funds for, and then I decide what to order, based on what I've since figured out that we actually should have asked for.
