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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'd love to hear your views on the big donors you work with. You make it sound like everything is the profs' fault.[/quote]

No, some of them are jerks too.  But saying, to a potential donor who is also a parent, that you would be making so much more progress on your research if you didn't have to teach is just boneheaded.  I mean, really.  And I prep these boneheads, but they never listen.  And then they bitch to me when the gift doesn't come through.  Well, try not offending the donors as tip number one![/quote]Yeah, this person sounds like a moron.[/quote]

But she's a GENIUS!  A genius, I say.  Who doesn't need someone like me - who isn't even a PhD (egads!) - to help her.  To which I replied that she is welcome to try fundraising on her own from now on if she feels she would be more successful (she won't be).  My dean agrees. She's the kind of person who would be fired if she wasn't protected by tenure.[/quote]

So... this person made her own bed. Now she has to apply for NSF grants instead. The dean agrees with you. You have the option of telling this youngish PhD candidate where she screwed up, and maybe she'll learn a lesson here.

So why on earth are you carrying on for 4 pages like this?[/quote]

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