{"id":47,"date":"2011-01-06T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-01-06T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:02:33","slug":"reading-harvard-arts-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/2011\/01\/06\/reading-harvard-arts-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading: Harvard Arts Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/files\/2011\/01\/Harvard-Arts-Task-Force-Report-December-2008.pdf\">Harvard Arts Task Force Report (December 2008)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2007\/2008 HU convened a university wide task force on the Arts. The final report is at the link above. The document addresses many of the same insitutitonal challenges as apply to BU and CFA. The first 20 pp are an essay on vision and priorities. A\u00a0one page scheme of\u00a0 recommendations follows that essay.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0There are many points well-discussed in the report about the status of the arts at a University. Here are two interesting passages.\u00a0Please find and repost others:<\/p>\n<p>No serious university would relegate what it regards as cognitively important\u2014laboratory science, for example, or economics\u2014to a marginal institutional space without regular faculty or adequate funding or expert training or rigorous evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Because the arts are deemed at Harvard to be extracurricular, many students remain oblivious to the hard work\u2014the careful training, perception, and intelligence\u2014that the arts require. They know that writing essays is a skilled and time-consuming labor. They recognize that problem sets in math and science are meant to be difficult. But ask them to photograph a landscape, compose a short story, or direct a scene rather than write an analytical essay and they will almost universally assume that the exercise will be quickly and easily dispatched. The problem is not that they believe art-making is trivial but rather that they believe that talent alone, and not thought or diligence, will determine the outcome. To teach non-artists to be as thoughtful and diligent in drawing a picture as they are in conducting an experiment or analyzing a complex text would mean not only, or primarily, enhancing their appreciation of art. It would mean teaching them to exercise a quite different kind of diligence, one involving the mind and the body in different ways than analytical writing and computation do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Arts Task Force Report (December 2008) In 2007\/2008 HU convened a university wide task force on the Arts. The final report is at the link above. The document addresses many of the same insitutitonal challenges as apply to BU and CFA. The first 20 pp are an essay on vision and priorities. A\u00a0one page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4498,1],"tags":[4444,1353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/plan2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}