[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[Anny Ballardini]

Is 33K 33,000? I don't think it is low. It would cover my costs wonderfully.
Besides that I do not think that my Director of the MFA program made much
more. He was looking for an Assistant last year, post I could not accept
because I was tied to my school by contract till the end of the year, which
offered much less, and I would have signed up for it, was it not for my
previous engagement.



On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Suzanne Burns
<atelierjewelweed at gmail.com>wrote:

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