“As budget pressures mount, legislators and governors are increasingly demanding data proving that money given to colleges is well spent. States spend about 11% of their general-fund budgets subsidizing higher education. The movement is driven as well by dismal educational statistics.”
Tag: 10.22.10
China Looks to Undo Destruction of Summer Palace
In an event that Chinese remember to this day as one of the great humiliations of the Opium Wars, British and French forces in 1860 looted and completely destroyed Yuanmingyuan (“Garden of Perfect Brightness”), the Qing emperors’ fabuous complex of palaces and gardens. In the disaster’s 150th anniversary year, China is continuing a campaign to locate and demand the return of Yuanmingyuan’s looted treasures.
Arts Fundraising in Australia Hasn’t Suffered Due to Financial Crisis
“‘[There] was a consensus that arts and education would take a hit, it was just a question of how hard that hit would be’, the Australia Council’s Louise Walsh says. ‘But it actually hasn’t happened’.”
The War Against The Comic Sans Font
“When you’ve finished ranting about the typeface’s use on all four corners of the internet, it’s time to get active: one can now get “Ban Comic Sans” flyers, comics, stickers, T-shirts, hoodies and coffee mugs.”
Britain Cuts Author Royalties For Books From Libraries
“Government funding for the Public Lending Right (PLR) – the system by which an author receives a small royalty each time one of their books is borrowed from a public library – is to be cut by 15% over the next four years.”
Chicago Symphony Ends Fiscal Year In The Black
For the fiscal year that ended June 30, the association made good on its intention of balancing the operating budget and reported a modest surplus of $41,000 on an operating budget of $61.6 million.
Chicago Symphony’s Finances Looking Healthier
“Despite the brutal economy, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association scored another financially solid performance in fiscal 2010,” with the fourth surplus in a row and fundraising, single ticket sales and the endowment all up from the previous year.
South Indian Cinema Gets Indie and Angst-y
“[A] new wave of independent films is out there, eager to bust taboos, sexual and otherwise. … These films want to poke at corners of reality and humanity that the commercial cinema has traditionally ignored.” Now there’s even Indian mumblecore.