[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[Bob Grumman]

TheOldMole wrote:
> 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.
What, I'd have ten thousand students and, as DIRECTOR, no assistant to 
look up what each needs to get a degree?  (As lit majors, they couldn't 
be expected to figure it out on their own.)  Good grief, give me an 
extra half-a-K, and I could make a program to do it.  I'm amazed that 
you don't have such a program.

But it's the same old story: everybody's over-paid except those in my 
field.  And administrators are parasites on teachers who are parasites 
on art-producers, who starve.

--Bob G.