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The Education Department wants to judge college programs by what their graduates earn — and by that measure, Juilliard fails. So do Yale’s master’s programs in visual arts and music, and Harvard’s in museum studies (The New York Times). Programs that flunk could lose access to federal student loans entirely (ARTnews). It’s the purest version yet of a familiar demand: culture, prove your worth on somebody else’s terms.
The New School is cutting roughly a third of its full-time faculty (Chronicle of Higher Education). New York added $150 million to its theater tax credit, and much of it is landing on shows backed by Disney and billionaires (Bloomberg Law News). When money follows metrics, the metrics favor whoever was already big.
Australia just recorded the highest arts attendance in its history (Creative Australia). Demand isn’t the problem. And in Mississippi, a gospel radio station says a new data center forced it off the air (Inside Radio).
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Doug
