Good Heavens, that's frightening!

You know, it's really frightening when you go to a meeting with the various and sundry folk who are supposed to be in charge of graduate students, and find out that they know less than you do.

For example, since when did becoming Doc2A automatically become "not in good standing"? Guess what, it doesn't mean that. But that's what the school of Humanities thought, so guess what? No HOT for me (or for others) and no summer teaching for us, either.

And why is it that I know where $$ comes from better than deans? I mean, if I know the "head count" money -- meaning the per student $$ that the campus gets -- comes from the Legislature, how come an associate dean thinks it comes from UCOP? Why am I better versed in UC funding than a dean? I mean, really.

Good news, normative time still means something, regardless of Doc2A status. Bad news, I'm telling them where they're wrong. Somehow, this does not bode well for the state of graduate education, methinks...