Fall 2002 Creative Writing Graduate
Survey Data

The WS Guild ran a survey last semester to seek out what was on student's minds. We had about 80 respondants to the survey. Below is a sample of our results.

1) Q: Rate the following issues in matter of importance from 1-5.

Number of Classes	4.3
TA Pay	3.7
Mentoring Relationship	3.6
Writing Jobs	3.6
Readings	3.5
Publishing Advice	3.4
Student/Faculty Ratio	3.4
Adjunct Faculty	3.1
Grant Writing	2.9
Size of Classes	2.9
Study Space	2.8
Fundraising	2.8
Social Events	2.7
Alumni Contacts	2.6
Representation	2.5
Number of respondents	79

 

 

 

2) Q: Suggestions for classes.

Editing
Publishing
Self-Publishing
Literature from a writers point of view
Feminist Poetry
Contemporary Queer Poetry
Post-modernist fiction
Focus on a decade
Epic Poetry
Spoken Word
Translation
Science Fiction
Writing For Children
More Cross Genre
More Playwriting

3) Q: Good Things About Program

Faculty
Other Students
Being in the Creative Life

4) Q: Concerns

Getting Classes
Faculty are swamped/No guidance
Insular, only one style represented in writers on writing, faculty is not ethnically diverse
Not a campus with a location/commuter feeling
Lack of campus resources
Funding
It takes more units to graduate from here than from other programs

5) Q: Should Wordsmiths Guild change name?

5) Q: For WS Guild Events: Percent Preferred Neighborhoods:

6) Q: WS Guild Event Locations (%)

Notes:

* Most people did not care whether events were held on or off campus.

*On campus events should be held Monday through Thursday afternoons or evenings.

*Off campus events should be held Friday-Sun. Evenings are preferred

*For answers to questions about classes and other concerns check out FAQs by clicking here.