[New-Poetry] Runaway MFA

[Beverly Rainbolt]

What? Graduate students can't read a friggin college catalog and figure out
what courses they need to get a Masters' Degree?

Beverly

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:36 AM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> 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.
>
>
>
> 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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