[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[Bob Grumman]

Suzanne Burns wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Bob Grumman 
> <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net <mailto: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
I'd do it for ten K, and, I assure you, I could handle it.  But I lack 
the proper credentials, and the students might end up learning something 
about poetry if I were allowed really to direct the program, so I don't 
think they'll take my offer.

--Bob G.

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