Does anyone here teach?
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- vaxorcist0
I've got an MFA, and I've taught adjunct at 3 colleges.... I left one in disgust after internal politics.... so beware...
There are lots of MFA-wielding teachers with no real world experience... One aristocratic-wannabe at a certain school made a series of pro-bono, low-content,big illustration posters for environmental causes and kept getting accolades, ..but students found out that this person had never done real work for a real client.... and had no idea how to do multi-page documents in indesign, that's fine if the class was illustration, but this class was for long-form projects, like catalogs, etc...
....there was a culture war there amongst faculty, trying to separate design from anything having to do with communication or advertising or marketing.... mostly MFA fulltimers vs adjuncts, many of whom had MFA's, but not all.....
...eventually a new dean was hired.... things changed, and adjunct faculty with real experience started getting better classes to teach...
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