Shot down again.

[dvandom]

Well, just got notification that my NSF grant proposal (adapting a new physics lab course to fit the needs of our "physics for poets" class) was turned down. Like about 90 percent of grants on that track lately, so it's not necessarily that I suck. Fortunately, my job doesn't depend on being able to get grants, but having one would have made it a LOT easier to try to go for a tenure track job in the future.

Guess I get to figure out how to fix up the class without any money.

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[j-anderson123.livejournal.com]

You must teach at a much bigger college that I went to... then again, our campus had roughly 1/4 of the classrooms a scomputer lavs, 1/4 for nurse education, most of the latter half as general rooms, a video conference room(for long-distace classes if the instructor had to go to another campus) and the lib... err, LMC. No real books shy of some nursing-related stuff. Most of my classes were literally no-brainers- often, the mere act of turning a paper in would get an A+.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Kansas State University. About 23000 students total, making it either a small big school, or a big medium school. Kinda on the cusp there. Total number of students taking courses in my department in any given semester is about 1200, give or take a hundred. Almost all "outside" students (i.e. we have a few dozen physics majors, everyone else is engineering or otherwise fulfilling a science requirement).

[j-anderson123.livejournal.com]

The campus I went to as well as statewide school info. (http://www.ivytech.edu/southeast/about/aboutlawrenceburg.html) 65000 is across all campuses. I'd say Lawrenceburg only handled a few hundred a semester total.