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Media Watch (March 6–13, 2006)
Posted 3/14/2006
"Media Watch" is a round-up of recent stories in the media about the University of Hartford, as well as significant stories about other local and peer institutions and news about trends and issues in higher education.
The spectacular run to the America East Championship by the Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team received extensive coverage in the print and electronic media, culminating with a front-page color photo in the Hartford Courant . The Hawks were also the subject of columns by the Courant's Jeff Jacobs and a commentary by Scott Gray of WTIC-AM. (Hartford Courant, March 10, 11, 12 and 13; WTIC-AM, March 12 and 13; Fox 61, March 13; NBC 30, March 12 and 13; WFSB-TV, March 11, 12 and 13; Associated Press, March 13; Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 13; Boston Globe, March 13)
In an article in the “Commentary” section of the Sunday Hartford Courant, columnist Tom Condon noted that “there are some amazing building sites downtown that are now being underused by the parking industry. An architecture graduate student at the University of Hartford, a bright young woman from India, stopped by to see me a few months ago to talk about a hypothetical museum project for downtown Hartford. She had identified the site of the former Parkview Hilton as a prime building location, and didn’t understand why it was empty.” (Hartford Courant, March 12)
Madeline McKernan, community and University liaison at the University of Hartford Magnet School, had a letter to the editor published in a special section of letters that supported the goals and concepts of magnets in Connecticut. “The effort and struggle to provide a choice for our communities cannot be threatened. The General Assembly needs to act now to make sure that we do not fail our children again,” she wrote. (Hartford Courant, March 11)
Students from the University of Hartford joined colleagues from seven other schools — including Tulane, Georgia, Stanford, and UC Berkeley — to develop substantive, creative policy proposals to assist those affected by the disaster in New Orleans and prevent future ones like it. The policy symposium was hosted by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill chapter of the Roosevelt Institution, the nation’s first student think tank. (BusinessWire, March 7)
Charles Turner, associate professor of music at The Hartt School, wrote a letter to the editor against a proposal to pipe classical music into Barnard Park in Hartford to rid it of drug users, prostitutes and other undesirables. “Great music,” he wrote, “is not like wallpaper — used to cover up something ugly or discourage something undesirable. It is personal, life-affirming and timeless.” (Hartford Courant, March 12)
University of Hartford student Emily Kuba had a letter to the editor published in the Hartford Courant. “What’s troubling to me is that more college students are not protesting the war in Iraq,” she wrote, noting that students are protesting against sweatshops and research abuse on animals. “Student activism is great, but let’s pick our fights wisely,” she said. “Bring the troops home. Stop the war in Iraq.” (Hartford Courant, March 5)
A crime alert sent to University students, faculty and staff to tell them about recent auto thefts and break-ins on campus, as well as tips on how to keep cars and belongings in those cars more secure, was the subject of a story on Channel 3’s Eyewitness News broadcast. (WFSB-TV Channel 3, March 8)
Javier Colon, a Connecticut native and Hartt School alum, recently released his second solo CD and was the subject of a feature story on the front page of the Hartford Courant’s “Life” section. He was also in the cast of “Songs in the Key of Life,” featuring six singers (including another University alum, Latanya Farrell) performing selections from Stevie Wonder’s 1976 album. They played the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts last month. (Hartford Courant , March 7)
Rachel Lutzker, an alumna of the University’s School of Communication who is now a traffic reporter on WFSB-TV Channel and an on-air host and traffic reporter for WHCN-FM (105.9), was profiled in the “Life” section of the Hartford Courant. As a student at the University of Hartford, she interned with Clear Channel Communications’ promotion department. (Hartford Courant , March 13)
Jennine Porter, a California native who is now a full-time student in a doctoral program at the University of Hartford, was featured in a Hartford Courant. “Business” section story about her struggles and success in finding an affordable apartment rental in this area. (Hartford Courant, March 12)
University Regent Arnold Greenberg and Margery Steinberg, associate professor of marketing in the Barney School of Business, were both photographed at Hartford Hospital’s 15th Anniversary Black & Red gala. Their photographs were included in the “Flash” section of Hartford Magazine. (Hartford Magazine, March ’06 issue)
Pat Meiser-McKnett, who has been the University of Hartford director of athletics since 1993, was the subject of a profile-feature story in the March issue of Hartford Magazine. “I can tell you that all around the country, Pat is one of the most highly regarded athletic directors and one of the most effective,” said University President Walter Harrison in the article. ( Hartford Magazine, March ’06 issue)
The University of Hartford announced on March 8 that it had signed women’s basketball coach Jen Rizzotti to a contract extension through the 2009-10 season. Rizzotti, who will turn 32 in May, was in the fourth year of a five-year contract. The following day, Rizzotti was named “Coach of the Year” by the America East at its awards banquet; senior Erika Messam was named “Player of the Year”; and freshman Erica Beverly was named “Rookie of the Year.” (Hartford Courant, March 9 and 10)
The impending opening of the University’s new baseball field, along with players’ and administrators’ reaction to it, was reported on by the Hartford Courant. “The field makes your jaw drop,” said second baseman Frank Cipolla, Hartford’s top hitter (.336) last season. Hawks baseball coach Jeff Calcaterra noted that because of the field’s all-weather turf, the team is going to get more games in and be able to practice earlier. “And the backdrop is the Hartford skyline if you’re looking out of the right-handed batting box,” he added. (Hartford Courant, March 8)
University President Walter Harrison, chair of the NCAA executive committee, was quoted in a story about NCAA President Myles Brand’s 2005 compensation package, which was more than $870,000. “He’s brought great leadership to the organization and a strong voice to the importance of academics in athletics,” Harrison said. (Indianapolis Star, March 7)
Other News
Connecticut’s colleges and universities are reviewing hundreds of applications from students who received the wrong SAT results because of a scoring error. About 4,000 test takers nationwide, including 241 in Connecticut, earned higher scores than the SAT results reported last fall to them and to the colleges they hope to attend. The 25 colleges and universities in Connecticut that received wrong scores are checking whether those students applied and if a decision has already been made to accept or reject them. (Associated Press, March 11; Hartford Courant, March 11; WTIC-AM, March 10) 17. A day after the College Board notified colleges that it had misreported the scores of 4,000 students who took the SAT exam in October, an official of the testing organization disclosed that some of the errors were far larger than initially suggested. Chiara Coletti, the College Board’s vice president for public affairs, said that 16 students out of the 495,000 who took the October exam had scores that should have been more than 200 points higher. (New York Times, March 9)
The legislature’s higher education committee peppered University of Connecticut officials with questions about budgeting, safety and trust during a hearing to consider a bill that would more closely monitor the school’s Uconn 2000 construction program. The committee’s bill proposes setting up a construction management committee, hiring a manager and tightening bidding, auditing and other controls in the $2.3 billion program. (Hartford Courant , March 8)
Hartford’s school board created a search committee system to find a new superintendent of schools. The panel includes former state Education Commissioner Theodore Sergi, now president and chief executive officer of the Connecticut Center for Science & Exploration; and William Cibes, retired chancellor of the Connecticut State University; and Mayor Eddie A. Perez, school board chairman. (Hartford Courant , March 8)
Karla Heurich Harrison, a Connecticut College alumna (’28), has given $1 million toward the endowment of the college’s Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies. The center’s directorship will be named for her. (Hartford Courant , March 7)
Yale Law School is the only law school in the country not immediately affected by the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that law schools must give military recruiters equal access to their campuses, or face the loss of substantial federal funds. But it is a distinction that could end at any moment. (Hartford Courant, March 7)
Rahmatullah Hashemi, a former ambassador and spokesman for the Taliban, is now a freshman at Yale University. He is either a symbol of what Yale is doing right, in trying to build bridges to the Muslim world, or he’s proof that the nation’s elite universities have taken diversity too far. (Hartford Courant, March 9)
Former longtime University of Chicago faculty member and mathematician Robert Zimmer, 58, was unanimously elected the University of Chicago’s 13th president by the board of trustees. Zimmer, provost at Brown University, for the last four years, will rejoin the University of Chicago on July 1. (Chicago Tribune, March 13)
Rutgers University’s Board of Governors approved a major reorganization, simplifying its complicated system of undergraduate colleges. The new system, which will take effect in the fall of 2007, gathers four of the five colleges at the central New Brunswick-Piscataway campus and consolidates them into a School of Arts and Sciences with unified admissions standards and academic requirements. The remaining college, Cook College, will become the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. (Associated Press, March 13; New York Times, March 13)
Upcoming
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science in Hillyer College, will have an essay published in Devotion, a monthly magazine, about Martin Luther King’s speech in Hartford in 1959 and the recording of that speech that is in the University Archives.
The spectacular run to the America East Championship by the Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team received extensive coverage in the print and electronic media, culminating with a front-page color photo in the Hartford Courant . The Hawks were also the subject of columns by the Courant's Jeff Jacobs and a commentary by Scott Gray of WTIC-AM. (Hartford Courant, March 10, 11, 12 and 13; WTIC-AM, March 12 and 13; Fox 61, March 13; NBC 30, March 12 and 13; WFSB-TV, March 11, 12 and 13; Associated Press, March 13; Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 13; Boston Globe, March 13)
In an article in the “Commentary” section of the Sunday Hartford Courant, columnist Tom Condon noted that “there are some amazing building sites downtown that are now being underused by the parking industry. An architecture graduate student at the University of Hartford, a bright young woman from India, stopped by to see me a few months ago to talk about a hypothetical museum project for downtown Hartford. She had identified the site of the former Parkview Hilton as a prime building location, and didn’t understand why it was empty.” (Hartford Courant, March 12)
Madeline McKernan, community and University liaison at the University of Hartford Magnet School, had a letter to the editor published in a special section of letters that supported the goals and concepts of magnets in Connecticut. “The effort and struggle to provide a choice for our communities cannot be threatened. The General Assembly needs to act now to make sure that we do not fail our children again,” she wrote. (Hartford Courant, March 11)
Students from the University of Hartford joined colleagues from seven other schools — including Tulane, Georgia, Stanford, and UC Berkeley — to develop substantive, creative policy proposals to assist those affected by the disaster in New Orleans and prevent future ones like it. The policy symposium was hosted by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill chapter of the Roosevelt Institution, the nation’s first student think tank. (BusinessWire, March 7)
Charles Turner, associate professor of music at The Hartt School, wrote a letter to the editor against a proposal to pipe classical music into Barnard Park in Hartford to rid it of drug users, prostitutes and other undesirables. “Great music,” he wrote, “is not like wallpaper — used to cover up something ugly or discourage something undesirable. It is personal, life-affirming and timeless.” (Hartford Courant, March 12)
University of Hartford student Emily Kuba had a letter to the editor published in the Hartford Courant. “What’s troubling to me is that more college students are not protesting the war in Iraq,” she wrote, noting that students are protesting against sweatshops and research abuse on animals. “Student activism is great, but let’s pick our fights wisely,” she said. “Bring the troops home. Stop the war in Iraq.” (Hartford Courant, March 5)
A crime alert sent to University students, faculty and staff to tell them about recent auto thefts and break-ins on campus, as well as tips on how to keep cars and belongings in those cars more secure, was the subject of a story on Channel 3’s Eyewitness News broadcast. (WFSB-TV Channel 3, March 8)
Javier Colon, a Connecticut native and Hartt School alum, recently released his second solo CD and was the subject of a feature story on the front page of the Hartford Courant’s “Life” section. He was also in the cast of “Songs in the Key of Life,” featuring six singers (including another University alum, Latanya Farrell) performing selections from Stevie Wonder’s 1976 album. They played the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts last month. (Hartford Courant , March 7)
Rachel Lutzker, an alumna of the University’s School of Communication who is now a traffic reporter on WFSB-TV Channel and an on-air host and traffic reporter for WHCN-FM (105.9), was profiled in the “Life” section of the Hartford Courant. As a student at the University of Hartford, she interned with Clear Channel Communications’ promotion department. (Hartford Courant , March 13)
Jennine Porter, a California native who is now a full-time student in a doctoral program at the University of Hartford, was featured in a Hartford Courant. “Business” section story about her struggles and success in finding an affordable apartment rental in this area. (Hartford Courant, March 12)
University Regent Arnold Greenberg and Margery Steinberg, associate professor of marketing in the Barney School of Business, were both photographed at Hartford Hospital’s 15th Anniversary Black & Red gala. Their photographs were included in the “Flash” section of Hartford Magazine. (Hartford Magazine, March ’06 issue)
Pat Meiser-McKnett, who has been the University of Hartford director of athletics since 1993, was the subject of a profile-feature story in the March issue of Hartford Magazine. “I can tell you that all around the country, Pat is one of the most highly regarded athletic directors and one of the most effective,” said University President Walter Harrison in the article. ( Hartford Magazine, March ’06 issue)
The University of Hartford announced on March 8 that it had signed women’s basketball coach Jen Rizzotti to a contract extension through the 2009-10 season. Rizzotti, who will turn 32 in May, was in the fourth year of a five-year contract. The following day, Rizzotti was named “Coach of the Year” by the America East at its awards banquet; senior Erika Messam was named “Player of the Year”; and freshman Erica Beverly was named “Rookie of the Year.” (Hartford Courant, March 9 and 10)
The impending opening of the University’s new baseball field, along with players’ and administrators’ reaction to it, was reported on by the Hartford Courant. “The field makes your jaw drop,” said second baseman Frank Cipolla, Hartford’s top hitter (.336) last season. Hawks baseball coach Jeff Calcaterra noted that because of the field’s all-weather turf, the team is going to get more games in and be able to practice earlier. “And the backdrop is the Hartford skyline if you’re looking out of the right-handed batting box,” he added. (Hartford Courant, March 8)
University President Walter Harrison, chair of the NCAA executive committee, was quoted in a story about NCAA President Myles Brand’s 2005 compensation package, which was more than $870,000. “He’s brought great leadership to the organization and a strong voice to the importance of academics in athletics,” Harrison said. (Indianapolis Star, March 7)
Other News
Connecticut’s colleges and universities are reviewing hundreds of applications from students who received the wrong SAT results because of a scoring error. About 4,000 test takers nationwide, including 241 in Connecticut, earned higher scores than the SAT results reported last fall to them and to the colleges they hope to attend. The 25 colleges and universities in Connecticut that received wrong scores are checking whether those students applied and if a decision has already been made to accept or reject them. (Associated Press, March 11; Hartford Courant, March 11; WTIC-AM, March 10) 17. A day after the College Board notified colleges that it had misreported the scores of 4,000 students who took the SAT exam in October, an official of the testing organization disclosed that some of the errors were far larger than initially suggested. Chiara Coletti, the College Board’s vice president for public affairs, said that 16 students out of the 495,000 who took the October exam had scores that should have been more than 200 points higher. (New York Times, March 9)
The legislature’s higher education committee peppered University of Connecticut officials with questions about budgeting, safety and trust during a hearing to consider a bill that would more closely monitor the school’s Uconn 2000 construction program. The committee’s bill proposes setting up a construction management committee, hiring a manager and tightening bidding, auditing and other controls in the $2.3 billion program. (Hartford Courant , March 8)
Hartford’s school board created a search committee system to find a new superintendent of schools. The panel includes former state Education Commissioner Theodore Sergi, now president and chief executive officer of the Connecticut Center for Science & Exploration; and William Cibes, retired chancellor of the Connecticut State University; and Mayor Eddie A. Perez, school board chairman. (Hartford Courant , March 8)
Karla Heurich Harrison, a Connecticut College alumna (’28), has given $1 million toward the endowment of the college’s Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies. The center’s directorship will be named for her. (Hartford Courant , March 7)
Yale Law School is the only law school in the country not immediately affected by the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that law schools must give military recruiters equal access to their campuses, or face the loss of substantial federal funds. But it is a distinction that could end at any moment. (Hartford Courant, March 7)
Rahmatullah Hashemi, a former ambassador and spokesman for the Taliban, is now a freshman at Yale University. He is either a symbol of what Yale is doing right, in trying to build bridges to the Muslim world, or he’s proof that the nation’s elite universities have taken diversity too far. (Hartford Courant, March 9)
Former longtime University of Chicago faculty member and mathematician Robert Zimmer, 58, was unanimously elected the University of Chicago’s 13th president by the board of trustees. Zimmer, provost at Brown University, for the last four years, will rejoin the University of Chicago on July 1. (Chicago Tribune, March 13)
Rutgers University’s Board of Governors approved a major reorganization, simplifying its complicated system of undergraduate colleges. The new system, which will take effect in the fall of 2007, gathers four of the five colleges at the central New Brunswick-Piscataway campus and consolidates them into a School of Arts and Sciences with unified admissions standards and academic requirements. The remaining college, Cook College, will become the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. (Associated Press, March 13; New York Times, March 13)
Upcoming
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science in Hillyer College, will have an essay published in Devotion, a monthly magazine, about Martin Luther King’s speech in Hartford in 1959 and the recording of that speech that is in the University Archives.
