aaac:apr27 [Assay and Acquisition of Radiopure Materials]

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==== Agenda April 27, 2015 ====
  * Presentation by Ted Von Hippel on the article and its survey. Linked at [[aaac:resources|RESOURCES]]
  * Discussion: See below.
  * Moving forward with Agency Statistics and Analysis.  The {{:aaac:aaacdemosection_long.docx|Longer report on Proposal Pressures}} that was not in finished form by the March 2015 AAAC report, may be a good place to start.  What are the questions not yet answered, what additional information is required to make a case.
  * Next Teleconference - AOB


==== Discussion with Ted ====
=== FYI, here are some comments from his email  ===

   Your proposal has both overlap with what we asked and substantial
   additional detail that would be helpful to know.

   Courtney would probably have additional suggestions if you/we ask her.

   My only thoughts on reading through this are
   a) I would break out research staff more to include support duties
      at observatories vs. the various ranks of research faculty.  I
      would also include non-tenure track faculty.  Not only does this
      capture what could be a meaningful fraction of the respondents,
      but if people don't see their category there, they can become
      disillusioned about the survey, not answer, and that gives biased
      results.
   b) It is OK to have questions with lots of possible sub-categories,
      like your PI and co-I grant writing questions.  The way to keep
      this from taking too much time is to have it set up with drop
      down categories for the number of proposals in each category or
      a neatly formatted table where respondents can put in the number
      of proposals that they have had in each category.
   c) I suggest breaking out the formula-driven observation-support
      grants into a separate table as for many colleagues, this signal
      may overwhelm the number of standard research proposals that they
      have written.  The dollar values are often substantially less as
      well.
   d) I like the question "Is writing grant applications an explicit
      (or an unspoken but implicit) expectation for your position?" yet
      suggest it is set up so that someone could instead check "explicit",
      "implicit", or "not an expectation".  Possibly the first two
      categories could be expanded to be
      "strong explicit expectation"
      "moderate explicit expectation"
      "strong implicit expectation"
      "moderate implicit expectation"
      "not an expectation".
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