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fwd: wading into the mfa mud

updated fri 29 jun 12

 

Mike Gordon on thu 28 jun 12


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Monica Wright Subject: Re: Wading into the MFA mud
>
> We posted for 15 elementary classroom positions this spring and had
> 3000 applicants. That's 2985 unemployed, college educated people.
> ...and not a single MFA.
>
>
> My first teaching job, after receiving my MFA,BFA, BaArt Ed from the
> College of Arts & Crafts,now College of the Arts, was at my old high
> school,there were 300 applicants, 30 of them Had MFA's. That was
> 1967.