[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[Suzanne Burns]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> I'm so out of it that I have to ask, is 33K supposed to be low for a
> DIRECTOR?  I should think 66 times more than poets make a year as poets
> would be more than reasonable.
> --Bob G.


33K is very, very low for an academic director of a program. She isn't being
paid to write poetry-- she is being paid to sacrifice time she could spend
writing poetry to instead direct and shape the whole program.  It's a
full-time and highly demanding job.

33K-- wow, I can make more than that shoveling snow. Maybe I have been out
of the academic loop for a very long time, but if this really is the going
rate for heads of departments, at a time when tuitions are going into the
stratosphere,  academia must be in very sad shape indeed.

Suzanne
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