Ahhh, a sweet New Year's present as our dean recognized that our study got flagged on Coburn's Wasteful 2011 report. The conventional wisdom is that no news is bad news but in this case, I am not sure that is the case. Kossacks, I need your help, what is the best way to address this?
As my intro alluded to, I got a nice note in my inbox today noting that our study was recorded on Coburn's Wasteful 2011 report. In order to preserve the semblance of anonymity I have, I won't say which one was ours but I can take solace in the fact that it was not in the Top 10.
Being simply a university researcher and fully realizing that Coburn is a publicity hound (for that reason I won't link to it), I would like to try to pro-actively try to stay ahead of things. I feel 100% justified with our study on the technical merits but that is not likely to be the battleground where any discussions would take place. Hence why this is largely foreign territory for me, I am used to debating technical merits I don't see this as happening here.
My question for Kossacks would be, what is the best way to stay ahead of these sorts of things? Beyond double / triple checking all policies, procedures, expenses, I don't see there being a lot that can be done. Or perhaps any suggestion of what not to do would be helpful as well.