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Students, School of Arts dean to discuss CUArts future

The resurgent Advocates for the Arts Initiative will meet with School of the Arts Dean Carol Becker next week to discuss changes to Columbia’s Arts Initiative, including its move to SoA and a proposed 30 percent budget decrease for the upcoming fiscal year.

By Leah Greenbaum | Apr 9 02:46 am ET

Initiative plans cuts to campus art programs

Gregory Mosher, director of the Columbia Arts Initiative, will send a scaled back budget proposal to the Office of the President at the end of this week, detailing how he and his staff hope to execute the 30 percent budget cut that was requested by President Bollinger last month.

By Leah Greenbaum | Feb 22 03:56 am ET

Art Initiative in talks after hit with 30 percent budget cut

The Columbia University Arts Initiative is currently in talks with the Graduate School of Arts and the Office of the President to determine how it will scale back its program budgets to meet a requested 30 percent requested budget cut.

By Leah Greenbaum | Feb 4 03:27 am ET

The death of spontaneity

Students attempt to safeguard spontaneous events, but are ultimately blocked due to any number of constraints (space, funding, permission), but mainly because they do not know whose name they must throw around to make Public Safety go away and let them build a snow ramp.

By Mark Hay | Dec 10 09:51 pm ET

Letter to the editor

Cuts in student group funding don’t spell the end of campus arts

By Darcy Zacharias | Sep 23 07:16 pm ET

Student filmmaker shoots movie under the Spanish sun

Victor Suarez, CC ’11, is so down-to-earth, it is almost hard to believe that he directed a $15,000 film production in Spain last summer.

By Julia Alekseyeva | Apr 22 09:31 pm ET

CU Arts aims for an array of activities despite recession

Five years ago, Caralyn Spector was rummaging through old file cabinets and discovered documents from a handful of museums offering Columbia students free admission. From there, Arts Initiative programming was born.

By Lauren Raulerson | Apr 1 10:14 pm ET

Ticket to Stardom: Broadway That Doesn’t Break the Wallet

Broadway tickets are reaching all-time high prices, but there are still many ways to find discounts and deals to make shows affordable—even for college students. Options for advance tickets or even “day-of” tickets are available, if you know where to look.

By Dani Dornfeld | Feb 6 02:28 am ET

New Ticket and Info Booth Offers Art Access on a Budget

The Ticket and Information Center—“The TIC”—officially opened yesterday on the ground floor of Lerner Hall.

By | Jan 28 10:38 pm ET

Golden Ticket

Given New York’s preeminence as an arts and culture hub, a centralized campus box office offering student discounts to city events and performances has been long overdue. The Arts Initiative at Columbia (CUArts) deserves substantial credit for bringing such a necessary service to the Columbia community. CUArts’ new box office in the center of campus will be far more conveniently located than its current residence on 125th Street in Prentis Hall.

By Editorial Board | Jan 28 01:52 am ET

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