Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

This year I was surprised to be part of the computer productivity fund committee for the college faculty. Maybe if I had passed an application again just like I did last year I would not have been put on the committee. Although since only two grantees are awarded a year and almost everyone sent a request last year, shouldn't all requests be considered as pending until either filled or the faculty deems otherwise? Or is it supposed to be used as an indicator of desperation if the faculty asks and asks year in and year out, and thus more prone to be approved?

Anyway, last year one of the two grantees was the college guidance counselor, who said that she needed to type out her student confidential records without the other faculty members being able to read over her shoulder as was possible in the public computer area of the faculty room with people passing behind her.

She ended up being transferred to the human resources office before the school year was out, so the grant was now passed to the director of the school of information and communication.

Now this year, the new guidance counselor also sent in a request, along with two other faculty members (again, maybe like me, the others who also sent requests last year thought it would still be pending and did not have to be passed a second time) were the only ones we had to consider. I don't know who the members of the committee were for last year, but one of the things I brought up was that if the guidance counselor was awarded last year, she should be benefited again this year, since their reasons were the same. Besides, when the guidance counselor is at the public computer area, the students see that she is not in her office, and very few of them have the instinct to look for her with the college faculty room secretary, or may not want to due to the confidential nature of their planned visit with the counselor.

It was also brought up if the integrated school guidance counselors had their own computers in their offices, and maybe our counselor could be afforded the same privilege. If yes, then she would not have to be awarded a computer grant.

So one of the members of the committee drafted a letter of our decision.

Unfortunately, the executive vice president took it the wrong way. I will be giving the details of this in tomorrow's post.

Session 1359 was too shy to admit wanting to talk to the counselor. Class dismissed.