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Media Watch (March 10-20, 2006)
Posted 3/21/2006
"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 Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team’s historic victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament generated significant media attention for the team and the University. That included an invitation to the pep band, cheerleaders, and Howie the Hawk to appear on CBS's "The Early Show" in New York City. The Hawks’ victory also made the front page of the women's college basketball section of ESPN.com, as did a photograph of the celebrating Hawks reserves on the bench. (ESPN.com, March 20; "CBS This Morning," March 20; New York Times, March 19; Boston Globe, March 20; Associated Press, March 20; San Jose Mercury News, March 20; MSNBC.com, March 18)
An op-ed piece by Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, argues that baseball fans should acknowledge their complicity in the steroids scandal involving some top stars of the game. "We fans have always sought to ignore the business side of the sport because it detracts from our emotional involvement with a game we learned to play or love in childhood, when we knew nothing about contracts, unions, arbitration hearings, performance-enhancing drugs or the wiles of professional gamblers. We prefer fields of dreams."
Read Goldstein's column.
(Hartford Courant, March 19; Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, March 19)
Taylor Somerville, a 2004 graduate of the Bachelor of University Studies program, wrote an opinion column that was published in the "Fresh Talk" section of the Hartford Courant’s Opinion Page. A recent member of the Courant’s Readers Advisory Panel, Somerville wrote that "Young newspaper readers are no different than older people who enjoy newspapers (aside from being better-looking). We are looking for an in-depth analysis of issues that blogs, TV and radio are incapable of providing."
Read Somerville's column.
(Hartford Courant, March 10)
William Sanders, a professor in the Interactive Information Technology (IIT) program, was interviewed for a WTNH-TV Channel 8 news story on a recent court ruling involving the federal government’s right to get information from Google’s search databases. (WTNH-TV Channel 8, March 14; UPN 9, March 14)
University President Walter Harrison told the Hartford Courant that he has learned that the Sage-Allen development project in downtown Hartford is behind schedule. The project originally called for 136 students to be housed there this coming fall, but the units won’t be ready until year’s end. That means the earliest students could move in would be the beginning of the spring semester, in early 2007, Harrison said. (Hartford Courant, March 17)
After reading about the results of a recently conducted survey that demonstrated that far more Americans can name "The Simpsons" TV characters than can name the protections provided in the First Amendment, Paul Siegel, director of the University’s School of Communication, had letters to the editor published citing some significant flaws in the survey, including misidentifying the five protection clauses in the First Amendment. Siegel did agree with the overall conclusion of the survey, " that we do in fact need more education about our constitutional heritage." (Chicago Tribune, March 11; Bergin County Record, March 14)
Vice President for Finance and Administration Beverly Maksin was featured in a Hartford Business Journal cover story about how Connecticut’s colleges and universities are growing their endowments and their policies for spending those funds. (Hartford Business Journal, March 13)
Linda Scacco, a West Hartford mother of three and an adjunct professor at the University of Hartford, has drawn on her professional and personal experience to write a children’s book about Alzheimer’s disease, called "Always My Grandpa." Scacco, a clinical psychologist, watched an uncle die of the disease in 1988. (Hartford Courant, March 20)
The statewide Mathcounts competition was held at the University of Hartford on March 11 and featured 200 competitors from high schools around the state. (WFSB-TV3, March 11)
Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell did a feature article in the "Connecticut" section on two young Muslim women who are studying at Hartford Seminary and have developed a friendship and bond that bridges their Sunni and Shia backgrounds. One of the women, Svendam Birinci from Turkey, was a student in the University of Hartford’s English Language Institute in the fall of 2003. She completed her language study with ELI in preparation for her graduate work at Hartford Seminary. (Hartford Courant, March 5)
The resignation of Hartford Hawks men’s basketball coach Larry Harrison had Hartford Courant sports columnist Jeff Jacobs offering his advice on the best candidate to replace Harrison as University Director of Athletics Pat Meiser-McKnett outlined her search criteria. (Hartford Courant, March 16 and 17)
The Hartford Courant did a feature story on former Hawks baseball standout Jeff Bagwell as he struggles with what may be his last spring training with the Houston Astros. The All-Star player has been battling shoulder injuries. (Hartford Courant, March 16)
Other News
As the College Board races to score the final 1,600 exams from its problem-ridden October SAT test, a string of recent testing errors around the country has college and high school officials and others asking "who is watching the testing industry?" The resulting flurry of errors has educators and lawmakers calling for better disclosure and oversight. Some are even proposing a national agency like the Food and Drug Administration to regulate testing. (New York Times, March 20)
JoAnne Carter founded Education Solutions in Essex 10 years ago, as a consultant specializing in guiding students through the college applications process. Officials at the Independent Educational Consultants Association estimate there are 2,000 such consultants, and they expect to see that number double in the next five years. (Hartford Courant, March 20)
A Hartford Courant feature story discussed how March is the month when college bound seniors wait to hear whether or not they have been accepted into the college of their choice. Mounds of application essays and transcripts are behind them, and the worry of financial-aid packages, and of leaving friends and family, is ahead of them. (Hartford Courant, March 19)
Most graduating medical students at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine will remain in New England to train as new physicians after learning where they have been assigned to residency programs. All but two of its 76 graduating seniors were assigned residency programs, the other two did not pursue residency this year. (Hartford Courant, March 17)
A report released by the State Department of Higher Education said that fewer men are enrolling in college in Connecticut, but women account for more than 58 percent of all public and private college students in the state and make up a majority of students seeking professional degrees in fields such as medicine. Women now outnumber men by a nearly 3-to-2 ratio. (Hartford Courant, March 15)
After days of behind-the-scenes lobbying and negotiations, the legislature’s higher education committee approved a wide-reaching bill that would allow the University of Connecticut to continue running its Uconn 2000 construction program, but with much stricter guidelines and under the watchful eye of an oversight committee. (Hartford Courant, March 15)
Peru’s Machu Piccu artifacts, which Yale Professor Hiram Bingham unearthed in Peru more than 90 years ago, are now on display at Yale’s Peabody Museum. Peru’s first lady Elaine Karp has accused Yale of profiting from Peru’s cultural heritage, and Peru has been threatening to sue. Yale has offered to collaborate and show the material in both countries. But Peru has refused any deal that does not acknowledge Peruvian title. (Hartford Courant, March 14)
Edward M. Hundert, Case Western Reserve University’s president, who sought to heighten the institution’s profile, is resigning after a "no confidence" vote from faculty members over budget problems. He submitted his resignation, effective Sept. 1, to the university’s board of trustees. Faculty members who opposed Hundert expressed concerns about budget deficits and uneven fundraising. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, March 17)
Hoping to encourage students scared by rising higher education costs, Stanford University is eliminating tuition for undergraduates from some of the lowest-income families. Under a new program, students from families with annual incomes of less than $45,000 will not pay tuition. Those with incomes up to $60,000 will pay about $3,800, the school estimates. (Associated Press, March 17)
From big, public universities to small, liberal arts institutions, schools around the country are throwing unprecedented sums at new arts venues. Long accustomed to cramped, dark spaces, many student dancers, actors and musicians are now enjoying more inspiring quarters, along with top-of-the-line electronics and acoustic setups. The result, instructors say: Students are simply performing better. (Associated Press, March 16; Hartford Courant, March 16)
Facing threats of litigation and pressure from Washington, colleges and universities nationwide are opening to white students hundreds of thousands of dollars in fellowships, scholarships and other programs previously created for minorities. The institutions are reacting to two 2003 Supreme Court cases on using race in admissions at the University of Michigan. Although the cases did not ban using race in admissions to higher education, they did leave the state of the law unclear, and some university officials fear legal action. (New York Times, March 14)
The Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team’s historic victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament generated significant media attention for the team and the University. That included an invitation to the pep band, cheerleaders, and Howie the Hawk to appear on CBS's "The Early Show" in New York City. The Hawks’ victory also made the front page of the women's college basketball section of ESPN.com, as did a photograph of the celebrating Hawks reserves on the bench. (ESPN.com, March 20; "CBS This Morning," March 20; New York Times, March 19; Boston Globe, March 20; Associated Press, March 20; San Jose Mercury News, March 20; MSNBC.com, March 18)
An op-ed piece by Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, argues that baseball fans should acknowledge their complicity in the steroids scandal involving some top stars of the game. "We fans have always sought to ignore the business side of the sport because it detracts from our emotional involvement with a game we learned to play or love in childhood, when we knew nothing about contracts, unions, arbitration hearings, performance-enhancing drugs or the wiles of professional gamblers. We prefer fields of dreams."
Read Goldstein's column.
(Hartford Courant, March 19; Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, March 19)
Taylor Somerville, a 2004 graduate of the Bachelor of University Studies program, wrote an opinion column that was published in the "Fresh Talk" section of the Hartford Courant’s Opinion Page. A recent member of the Courant’s Readers Advisory Panel, Somerville wrote that "Young newspaper readers are no different than older people who enjoy newspapers (aside from being better-looking). We are looking for an in-depth analysis of issues that blogs, TV and radio are incapable of providing."
Read Somerville's column.
(Hartford Courant, March 10)
William Sanders, a professor in the Interactive Information Technology (IIT) program, was interviewed for a WTNH-TV Channel 8 news story on a recent court ruling involving the federal government’s right to get information from Google’s search databases. (WTNH-TV Channel 8, March 14; UPN 9, March 14)
University President Walter Harrison told the Hartford Courant that he has learned that the Sage-Allen development project in downtown Hartford is behind schedule. The project originally called for 136 students to be housed there this coming fall, but the units won’t be ready until year’s end. That means the earliest students could move in would be the beginning of the spring semester, in early 2007, Harrison said. (Hartford Courant, March 17)
After reading about the results of a recently conducted survey that demonstrated that far more Americans can name "The Simpsons" TV characters than can name the protections provided in the First Amendment, Paul Siegel, director of the University’s School of Communication, had letters to the editor published citing some significant flaws in the survey, including misidentifying the five protection clauses in the First Amendment. Siegel did agree with the overall conclusion of the survey, " that we do in fact need more education about our constitutional heritage." (Chicago Tribune, March 11; Bergin County Record, March 14)
Vice President for Finance and Administration Beverly Maksin was featured in a Hartford Business Journal cover story about how Connecticut’s colleges and universities are growing their endowments and their policies for spending those funds. (Hartford Business Journal, March 13)
Linda Scacco, a West Hartford mother of three and an adjunct professor at the University of Hartford, has drawn on her professional and personal experience to write a children’s book about Alzheimer’s disease, called "Always My Grandpa." Scacco, a clinical psychologist, watched an uncle die of the disease in 1988. (Hartford Courant, March 20)
The statewide Mathcounts competition was held at the University of Hartford on March 11 and featured 200 competitors from high schools around the state. (WFSB-TV3, March 11)
Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell did a feature article in the "Connecticut" section on two young Muslim women who are studying at Hartford Seminary and have developed a friendship and bond that bridges their Sunni and Shia backgrounds. One of the women, Svendam Birinci from Turkey, was a student in the University of Hartford’s English Language Institute in the fall of 2003. She completed her language study with ELI in preparation for her graduate work at Hartford Seminary. (Hartford Courant, March 5)
The resignation of Hartford Hawks men’s basketball coach Larry Harrison had Hartford Courant sports columnist Jeff Jacobs offering his advice on the best candidate to replace Harrison as University Director of Athletics Pat Meiser-McKnett outlined her search criteria. (Hartford Courant, March 16 and 17)
The Hartford Courant did a feature story on former Hawks baseball standout Jeff Bagwell as he struggles with what may be his last spring training with the Houston Astros. The All-Star player has been battling shoulder injuries. (Hartford Courant, March 16)
Other News
As the College Board races to score the final 1,600 exams from its problem-ridden October SAT test, a string of recent testing errors around the country has college and high school officials and others asking "who is watching the testing industry?" The resulting flurry of errors has educators and lawmakers calling for better disclosure and oversight. Some are even proposing a national agency like the Food and Drug Administration to regulate testing. (New York Times, March 20)
JoAnne Carter founded Education Solutions in Essex 10 years ago, as a consultant specializing in guiding students through the college applications process. Officials at the Independent Educational Consultants Association estimate there are 2,000 such consultants, and they expect to see that number double in the next five years. (Hartford Courant, March 20)
A Hartford Courant feature story discussed how March is the month when college bound seniors wait to hear whether or not they have been accepted into the college of their choice. Mounds of application essays and transcripts are behind them, and the worry of financial-aid packages, and of leaving friends and family, is ahead of them. (Hartford Courant, March 19)
Most graduating medical students at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine will remain in New England to train as new physicians after learning where they have been assigned to residency programs. All but two of its 76 graduating seniors were assigned residency programs, the other two did not pursue residency this year. (Hartford Courant, March 17)
A report released by the State Department of Higher Education said that fewer men are enrolling in college in Connecticut, but women account for more than 58 percent of all public and private college students in the state and make up a majority of students seeking professional degrees in fields such as medicine. Women now outnumber men by a nearly 3-to-2 ratio. (Hartford Courant, March 15)
After days of behind-the-scenes lobbying and negotiations, the legislature’s higher education committee approved a wide-reaching bill that would allow the University of Connecticut to continue running its Uconn 2000 construction program, but with much stricter guidelines and under the watchful eye of an oversight committee. (Hartford Courant, March 15)
Peru’s Machu Piccu artifacts, which Yale Professor Hiram Bingham unearthed in Peru more than 90 years ago, are now on display at Yale’s Peabody Museum. Peru’s first lady Elaine Karp has accused Yale of profiting from Peru’s cultural heritage, and Peru has been threatening to sue. Yale has offered to collaborate and show the material in both countries. But Peru has refused any deal that does not acknowledge Peruvian title. (Hartford Courant, March 14)
Edward M. Hundert, Case Western Reserve University’s president, who sought to heighten the institution’s profile, is resigning after a "no confidence" vote from faculty members over budget problems. He submitted his resignation, effective Sept. 1, to the university’s board of trustees. Faculty members who opposed Hundert expressed concerns about budget deficits and uneven fundraising. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, March 17)
Hoping to encourage students scared by rising higher education costs, Stanford University is eliminating tuition for undergraduates from some of the lowest-income families. Under a new program, students from families with annual incomes of less than $45,000 will not pay tuition. Those with incomes up to $60,000 will pay about $3,800, the school estimates. (Associated Press, March 17)
From big, public universities to small, liberal arts institutions, schools around the country are throwing unprecedented sums at new arts venues. Long accustomed to cramped, dark spaces, many student dancers, actors and musicians are now enjoying more inspiring quarters, along with top-of-the-line electronics and acoustic setups. The result, instructors say: Students are simply performing better. (Associated Press, March 16; Hartford Courant, March 16)
Facing threats of litigation and pressure from Washington, colleges and universities nationwide are opening to white students hundreds of thousands of dollars in fellowships, scholarships and other programs previously created for minorities. The institutions are reacting to two 2003 Supreme Court cases on using race in admissions at the University of Michigan. Although the cases did not ban using race in admissions to higher education, they did leave the state of the law unclear, and some university officials fear legal action. (New York Times, March 14)
