{"id":2187,"date":"2011-12-13T18:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2011-12-16T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:23:18","slug":"we-must-defend-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2011\/12\/13\/we-must-defend-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Ju\u00e1rez Speaks Out on Arts Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><strong>By the numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>$1.68<\/strong> = One grande coffee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>$1.46<\/strong> =\u00a0 Amount of yearly U.S. (state and federal) arts funding per person.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/As-Appropriations-Dry-Up-Arts\/129781\/?sid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en\" target=\"_blank\">letter to the editor<\/a> published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/section\/Home\/5\" target=\"_blank\">The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/contact-us\/dean\/benjamin-juarez\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benjam\u00edn Ju\u00e1rez<\/a>, Dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\" target=\"_blank\">College of Fine Arts<\/a>, explains how arts infrastructure is being \u201cdismantled\u201d by shrinking state and federal funds for the arts and arts education.<\/p>\n<p>In the video below, Dean Ju\u00e1rez discusses the current state  of\u00a0arts\u00a0funding and\u00a0what schools and communities can do to help keep the  arts an integral part of children\u2019s lives and development in the 21st  century.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/97FTEUrbcIg\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the numbers: $1.68 = One grande coffee. $1.46 =\u00a0 Amount of yearly U.S. (state and federal) arts funding per person. In a recent letter to the editor published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Benjam\u00edn Ju\u00e1rez, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, explains how arts infrastructure is being \u201cdismantled\u201d by shrinking state and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4883,586],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}