[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[cris cheek]

IF we are talking dollars then the director of a program would  
expect, and would receive, more than twice 33K


On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Anny Ballardini wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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:
> 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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