[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[James Cervantes]

A lot is determined by size of school and name recognition of director,
faculty and program.
- Jim

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM, cris cheek <cheekc at muohio.edu> wrote:

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