I would like to add to this. I've had professors argue with me over how small, mostly volunteer run organizations should save money and be resourceful. This particular professor had never done anything other than teach. I really thing the academic world, at least in my experience, do not have a clue what goes on in the museum profession.
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:58 AM
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Subject: Re: Glut of graduates
Stephen,
So right. I've spoken to museum studies classes and brought up those very
topics and had the professors (from the back of the room) shake their heads
NO!
Tim
Timothy S. Bottoms
Curator of Collections
Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum
PO Box 1992
Savannah, Georgia 31402
912.748.8888 x 109
912.748.0209 (fax)
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Glut of graduates
> Many of the museum
> studies gradates I know are either under-employed or not even in the
field,
> or are working in very low-pay jobs, really supported by their spouses.
> That's the facts.
You're so right, Joyce. And while it's appropriate to be encouraging to
young grads entering the field, one wonders if they have been given any
sense of how difficult it is going to be financially. I'm appalled at the
salaries I see offered for leadership positions in museums requiring years
of experience, advanced degrees, fundraising and business acumen, and $35K a
year. Every museum studies program ought to have a heads-up reality class
freshman year -- not to extinguish students' enthusiasm, but to give them
real information about making sound decisions for their future.
Stephen Nowlin
Vice President, Director,
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery
Art Center College of Design
http://www.xrl.us/stephennowlin
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