{"id":861,"date":"2023-03-24T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/?p=861"},"modified":"2023-03-24T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:22:54","slug":"lunch-learn-thurs-3-30-150th-birthday-of-the-college-of-arts-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/2023\/03\/24\/lunch-learn-thurs-3-30-150th-birthday-of-the-college-of-arts-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch &amp; Learn, Thurs., 3\/30:  150th birthday of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>In March of 1873, the Boston University trustees took a leap of faith when they voted to establish a College of Liberal Arts (now College of Arts &amp; Sciences).\u00a0 Later that fall, a modest group of 22 men and women took a historic step in U.S. higher education when they gathered in an old Beacon Hill town house to study a blend of classical and modern subjects.\u00a0 What they didn\u2019t know then was that, 150 years later, a fledgling college would grow to a community of more than 10,00 undergraduate and graduate students, 900 faculty members, and 300 staff members, with nearly 50 departments and programs, and over 3,000 course offerings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>Please join us on at <strong>12:00 noon<\/strong> on <strong>Thursday, March 30<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong> in <strong>CAS 200<\/strong> as<br \/>\n<strong>Assistant Dean Daryl Healea<\/strong> chronicles the early years of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences and its remarkable, pioneering place in U.S. higher education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/prodev\/files\/2023\/03\/ClassOf77-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-865\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/files\/2023\/03\/ClassOf77-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/files\/2023\/03\/ClassOf77-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/files\/2023\/03\/ClassOf77-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/files\/2023\/03\/ClassOf77-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/files\/2023\/03\/ClassOf77-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March of 1873, the Boston University trustees took a leap of faith when they voted to establish a College of Liberal Arts (now College of Arts &amp; Sciences).\u00a0 Later that fall, a modest group of 22 men and women took a historic step in U.S. higher education when they gathered in an old Beacon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/2023\/03\/24\/lunch-learn-thurs-3-30-150th-birthday-of-the-college-of-arts-sciences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lunch &amp; Learn, Thurs., 3\/30:  150th birthday of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8940,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prodev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}