Rejection [BGSU Graduate Student Senate] (Discourse Chronicle)
Comments(2) Due to the large number of applications that were received, the FPD Review Committee developed a specific set of criteria and guidelines that applications had to fulfill for acceptance. Due to the nature of the selection process, these criteria and guidelines were created to ensure the quality and fairness for all applicants. Unfortunately, your application was denied for the following reason: Transportation expenses not justified.
[I attempted this small grant opportunity at BGSU as assistance toward my upcoming trip to San Francisco for National PCA this March, but I neglected explaining purchasing two plane tickets covers both Elizabeth and I since we split costs. I am not hurt badly because I expected a rejection. The amount awarded for successful proposals is split evenly among all winning applicants regardless of need or importance.
However, I used this letter as a teachable moment with my freshmen students today. I allowed a student to open and read it aloud in class. All of them pulled for me and hoped for an acceptance, but since I failed, I drove home the point that no matter how good we are as writers we may always become better. I believe my students understand that and we continued having a good class. BK]
category: Life, Rejections, Rhetoric and Poetics
I continue to admire how you use your blog to discuss your disappointments as well as your successes. Good creation of a teachable moment.
Thanks, Dennis. I needed that. We are experiencing anonymous midterm feedback being returned to us from our students and some are not pleased with my new teaching style. I fear that although I believe I am becoming a better instructor, my feedback indicates otherwise, which creates crippling self-doubt.