[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[TheOldMole]

For just the amount of time you'd have to spend advising students with a 
creative writing major or minor as to the courses they needed to take to 
fulfill their requirements, you could earn more than your 10K shoveling 
snow -- and that's given the fact that you live in Florida.



Bob Grumman wrote:
> 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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