{"id":14971,"date":"2017-03-08T22:23:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/?p=14971"},"modified":"2017-03-08T22:23:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:23:45","slug":"arts-graduates-find-jobs-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2017\/03\/08\/arts-graduates-find-jobs-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts graduates find jobs, satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span id=\"byLineTag\">By Dan Berrett, Inside Higher Ed<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2011-05-03-inside-higher-ed-arts-programs-college_n.htm\">Link to full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"firstParagraph\">Conventional wisdom has long held that pursuing a career in the arts is a likely ticket to a life of perennial unhappiness, hunger and unemployment. But the opposite appears to be true &#8212; graduates of arts programs are likely to find jobs and satisfaction, even if they won&#8217;t necessarily get wealthy in the process &#8212; according to a new national survey of more than 13,000 alumni of 154 different arts programs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inset\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">&#8220;Arts graduates are finding ways to put together careers and be employed &#8212; and many of them are satisfied with their work,&#8221; said Steven J. Tepper, associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, assistant professor in the department of sociology at <a title=\"More news, photos about Vanderbilt University\" href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/topics\/topic\/Organizations\/Schools\/Vanderbilt+University\">Vanderbilt University<\/a> and senior scholar of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dan Berrett, Inside Higher Ed Link to full article &nbsp; Abstract: Conventional wisdom has long held that pursuing a career in the arts is a likely ticket to a life of perennial unhappiness, hunger and unemployment. But the opposite&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2017\/03\/08\/arts-graduates-find-jobs-satisfaction\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions\/14973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}