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"So, MFA writing programs, allow me to make a suggestion. Sometime before you hand over that sheepskin with the words "Master of Fine Arts" on it, for which your students may have just paid tens of thousands of dollars (or more), offer them a class on the business of the publishing industry, including an intensive look at contracts. Why? Because, Holy God, they will need it."
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Because flying isn't stressful and unpleasant enough as it is.
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A research project led by Prof. Frederick Evers, former director of U of G's Teaching Support Services, revealed that more than 70 per cent of professors believe their institutions regard research more highly than teaching, and that faculty members are focusing on research as a result.
"There is an overall sense among professors that research is deemed more important to their career development than teaching," said Evers, a sociology professor who worked on the study with researchers from six Ontario universities. "Despite this finding, a majority of faculty reported they believe teaching is important to their professional practice and emphasized the need to continue to support the development of teaching at the university level."
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MAJeff here with his espresso.
In response to my post yesterday considering some of the difficulties in restaffing a course when its professor falls ill,
My professional goal since undergraduate days 20 years ago has been to divide my working hours between indoor research, fieldwork and teaching. And so I applied for my first academic job in June of 2003, shortly before my thesis defence.
Even though fall classes won't start for a few more weeks, we are already being asked to submit our spring schedules. I'll be teaching two classes, each with labs, that I will have previously taught.
Re: MFA writing programs... ANY person in ANY major needs a course of "spotting a rotten deal," another course on personal finance, and one more on parenting. Because, by God, most of them will need that knowledge.
I work in film and tv -- I have been bugging my academic friends at our regional university to include business classes for their media students for years now. Poor things get out of school with the newly minted MFA or BFA, all full of optimism, and some never know what hit them once they try to pursue a career in the field.