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Media Watch (Feb. 7-14, 2005)
Posted 2/15/2005
"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.
Kathleen McGrory, chair of the Department of Rhetoric, Language and Culture in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an opinion article for the Hartford Courant's Valentine's Day issue about the impoverished nature of the English language when it comes to expressing love. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 14)
Matthew Silver wrote an opinion article for the Sunday Hartford Courant's "Commentary" section about the latest cease-fire in the Middle East and his hopes that Israel and the Palestinians can now negotiate a more lasting peace. He also wrote an opinion article for the Connecticut Jewish Ledger about efforts to combat the anti-Israeli rhetoric at Central Connecticut State University. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 13; Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Feb. 12)
A glowing review of Lucy Kaplansky's sold-out show in Wilde Auditorium, as part of the university's MUSIC for a CHANGE concert series, was published in the Sunday Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
Roger Desmond, professor of communication, was appointed to the Hartford Courant's reader advisory panel. The panel members were announced in a Feb. 6 article by Courant ombudsman Karen Hunter. In addition, Desmond was also interviewed by the Newark Star Ledger for a story on the media and its marketing efforts towards children. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 6)
Evelyn Ch'ien, assistant professor of English at the university, was profiled in a story titled "This English Professor Explodes the Hip-Hop Lexicon" in the New York Sun. (New York Sun, Feb. 10)
Brandee A. Younger, a harpist studying at The Hartt School, will be performing in a ceremony to honor Marian Anderson, the late operatic and concert star. The Feb. 17 event at the Artists Collective in Hartford is part of a month-long series celebrating the issuance of the new Marian Anderson 37-cent commemorative postage stamp, the 28th in the Postal Service's Black Heritage series. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 8)
In its "School News" column, the Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal noted that Dennis K. Sullivan II won the fifth annual vanRooy Competition for Musical Excellence at The Hartt School. Sullivan is a percussion performance major and the first percussionist to win the grand prize. (Akron Beacon-Journal, Feb. 13)
A team of students from the University of Hartford was among those competing in the "Beanpot Tourney," a two-day improvisational comedy competition among the hottest regional college troupes. The "Beanpot Tourney" will be held Friday, Feb. 25, and Saturday, Feb. 26, at ImprovBoston in Cambridge, Mass. (Cambridge Chronicle, Feb. 10)
Stevie Zimmerman, an adjunct professor of theatre in The Hartt School, was interviewed by Metro Radio Network about the passing of renowned playwright Arthur Miller. (Metro Radio Network, Feb. 11)
A photograph of one of the attendees at the opening of the "Now and Then: Albany Avenue" photographic exhibition, currently on display in the university's Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization, was published in the "Connecticut" section of the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 7)
John Carson, senior advisor to the president on corporate and community relations, and David Desplaces, an assistant professor of management and marketing at the Barney School of Business, were quoted in a Hartford Business Journal story on the economic impact that universities can have on their communities. (Hartford Business Journal, Feb. 7)
Betsey Smith, chair of the occupational therapy program in the university's College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions, was featured in the "Practitioners in the News" column of OT Practice magazine. Smith was named a 2004 Fellow of the Coalition for Allied Health Leadership. (OT Practice magazine, Feb. 7)
A news story about Thomas J. Groark, Jr., an attorney with Day, Berry & Howard who was chosen by the court to challenge the state's assertion that serial killer Michael Ross is mentally competent, cited his connection to the University of Hartford. Groark is a member of the board of regents and a member of the committee that recommended Walter Harrison's selection as university president. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 11)
An Associated Press story noted that President Walter Harrison, chair of the NCAA Committee on Academic Performance, recently addressed the Knight Commission, a privately funded group formed in 1989 to promote reforms and greater presidential control of college athletics. Harrison talked about the recently adopted NCAA academic performance program, which will require Division I teams to stay on track to graduate at least 50 percent of their athletes to avoid the risk of losing scholarships in the upcoming academic year. (Associated Press, Feb. 7)
Other News
For the first time in his administration, President George W. Bush is proposing a net reduction in financing for the Department of Education, seeking to reduce its budget by about 1 percent, to $56 billion, for the 2006 fiscal year. (New York Times, Feb. 8)
Caught off guard by Gov. Jodi Rell's unexpected proposal to freeze tuition at state colleges, education officials defended their current prices as affordable and said it makes no sense to dip into reserve funds to make ends meet. The University of Connecticut's tuition rose 10.7 percent in 2004, another 10 percent in 2005, and is scheduled to increase 5.6 percent for 2006. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 9, Hartford Courant, Feb. 8)
Three university presidents wrote an essay critical of Harvard University president Larry Summers' recent suggestion that biological differences may help explain why more men than women excel in science and engineering. The essay by Stanford University president John Hennessey, a computer scientist; Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Susan Hockfield, a neuroscientist; and Princeton University president Shirley Tilghman, a molecular geneticist; appeared on the opinion page of The Boston Globe. (Boston Globe, Feb. 12)
Yale University officials say they don't plan any action as a result of a human rights group's charges against the former president of Mexico, now director of the university's Center for the Study of Globalization. Ernesto Zedillo allegedly authorized paramilitary groups that attacked Mexican citizens, according to the testimony of a paramilitary leader who said the nation's army trained the paramilitary groups. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
A former Yale University professor stole his own lucrative Nobel Prize-winning chemistry invention - a process for analyzing large molecules - from Yale, and then violated a university policy by licensing it out for profit, a federal judge has ruled. John Fenn was ordered to pay Yale $545,000 in royalties and penalties, and pay Yale's legal bills, which are approaching $500,000. (Newsday, Feb. 12)
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has completed its annual collection of data on black first-year enrollments at the eight Ivy League colleges and universities. This fall, blacks make up 9.3 percent of the first-year students at Yale University, the highest rate in the Ivy League and the highest rate at Yale in the past decade. (Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, February '04 issue)
"Through the entrance of the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College came the smell of incense, the occasional sound of bells and the chanting of seven Buddhist nuns from a Nepalese monastery. Part prayer, part performance, part process, this was the beginning of the end of a two-week effort to create - and on [Feb. 14], dismantle - a mandala, a meditative sand sculpture popular in Buddhist tradition," noted the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
Responding to concerns that onerous visa requirements are discouraging foreign students and scientists from coming to the United States, the State Department has extended the time many of them can remain before renewing security clearances. (New York Times, Feb. 14)
A University of Connecticut student, John Bjorge of West Hartford, implicated in a scheme to steal expensive electronic equipment from a campus building in November, was charged on Feb. 9 with stealing plasma-screen televisions valued at $40,000 from another campus building in May. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 10)
Upcoming
The university's signing of an agreement to place up to 136 upperclassmen in new housing at the redeveloped Sage-Allen property in downtown Hartford will be the subject of stories in the Hartford Courant and Hartford Inquirer.
The Micro Business Incubator program, in which Barney School of Business students work with small business owners in Upper Albany, will be featured in a story in Small Biz, a national, quarterly publication of BusinessWeek magazine.
University High School of Science and Engineering student Jacob Komar and his family will be featured on "CBS Sunday Morning" in a story on Jan and Bob Davidson's work with highly gifted children. The show is scheduled to air on Sunday, March 6.
President Harrison was interviewed by Hartford Magazine, along with the presidents of the University of Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut State University, Trinity College, St. Joseph College and Central Connecticut State University, for the cover story in the magazine's April issue.
Kathleen McGrory, chair of the Department of Rhetoric, Language and Culture in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an opinion article for the Hartford Courant's Valentine's Day issue about the impoverished nature of the English language when it comes to expressing love. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 14)
Matthew Silver wrote an opinion article for the Sunday Hartford Courant's "Commentary" section about the latest cease-fire in the Middle East and his hopes that Israel and the Palestinians can now negotiate a more lasting peace. He also wrote an opinion article for the Connecticut Jewish Ledger about efforts to combat the anti-Israeli rhetoric at Central Connecticut State University. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 13; Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Feb. 12)
A glowing review of Lucy Kaplansky's sold-out show in Wilde Auditorium, as part of the university's MUSIC for a CHANGE concert series, was published in the Sunday Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
Roger Desmond, professor of communication, was appointed to the Hartford Courant's reader advisory panel. The panel members were announced in a Feb. 6 article by Courant ombudsman Karen Hunter. In addition, Desmond was also interviewed by the Newark Star Ledger for a story on the media and its marketing efforts towards children. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 6)
Evelyn Ch'ien, assistant professor of English at the university, was profiled in a story titled "This English Professor Explodes the Hip-Hop Lexicon" in the New York Sun. (New York Sun, Feb. 10)
Brandee A. Younger, a harpist studying at The Hartt School, will be performing in a ceremony to honor Marian Anderson, the late operatic and concert star. The Feb. 17 event at the Artists Collective in Hartford is part of a month-long series celebrating the issuance of the new Marian Anderson 37-cent commemorative postage stamp, the 28th in the Postal Service's Black Heritage series. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 8)
In its "School News" column, the Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal noted that Dennis K. Sullivan II won the fifth annual vanRooy Competition for Musical Excellence at The Hartt School. Sullivan is a percussion performance major and the first percussionist to win the grand prize. (Akron Beacon-Journal, Feb. 13)
A team of students from the University of Hartford was among those competing in the "Beanpot Tourney," a two-day improvisational comedy competition among the hottest regional college troupes. The "Beanpot Tourney" will be held Friday, Feb. 25, and Saturday, Feb. 26, at ImprovBoston in Cambridge, Mass. (Cambridge Chronicle, Feb. 10)
Stevie Zimmerman, an adjunct professor of theatre in The Hartt School, was interviewed by Metro Radio Network about the passing of renowned playwright Arthur Miller. (Metro Radio Network, Feb. 11)
A photograph of one of the attendees at the opening of the "Now and Then: Albany Avenue" photographic exhibition, currently on display in the university's Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization, was published in the "Connecticut" section of the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 7)
John Carson, senior advisor to the president on corporate and community relations, and David Desplaces, an assistant professor of management and marketing at the Barney School of Business, were quoted in a Hartford Business Journal story on the economic impact that universities can have on their communities. (Hartford Business Journal, Feb. 7)
Betsey Smith, chair of the occupational therapy program in the university's College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions, was featured in the "Practitioners in the News" column of OT Practice magazine. Smith was named a 2004 Fellow of the Coalition for Allied Health Leadership. (OT Practice magazine, Feb. 7)
A news story about Thomas J. Groark, Jr., an attorney with Day, Berry & Howard who was chosen by the court to challenge the state's assertion that serial killer Michael Ross is mentally competent, cited his connection to the University of Hartford. Groark is a member of the board of regents and a member of the committee that recommended Walter Harrison's selection as university president. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 11)
An Associated Press story noted that President Walter Harrison, chair of the NCAA Committee on Academic Performance, recently addressed the Knight Commission, a privately funded group formed in 1989 to promote reforms and greater presidential control of college athletics. Harrison talked about the recently adopted NCAA academic performance program, which will require Division I teams to stay on track to graduate at least 50 percent of their athletes to avoid the risk of losing scholarships in the upcoming academic year. (Associated Press, Feb. 7)
Other News
For the first time in his administration, President George W. Bush is proposing a net reduction in financing for the Department of Education, seeking to reduce its budget by about 1 percent, to $56 billion, for the 2006 fiscal year. (New York Times, Feb. 8)
Caught off guard by Gov. Jodi Rell's unexpected proposal to freeze tuition at state colleges, education officials defended their current prices as affordable and said it makes no sense to dip into reserve funds to make ends meet. The University of Connecticut's tuition rose 10.7 percent in 2004, another 10 percent in 2005, and is scheduled to increase 5.6 percent for 2006. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 9, Hartford Courant, Feb. 8)
Three university presidents wrote an essay critical of Harvard University president Larry Summers' recent suggestion that biological differences may help explain why more men than women excel in science and engineering. The essay by Stanford University president John Hennessey, a computer scientist; Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Susan Hockfield, a neuroscientist; and Princeton University president Shirley Tilghman, a molecular geneticist; appeared on the opinion page of The Boston Globe. (Boston Globe, Feb. 12)
Yale University officials say they don't plan any action as a result of a human rights group's charges against the former president of Mexico, now director of the university's Center for the Study of Globalization. Ernesto Zedillo allegedly authorized paramilitary groups that attacked Mexican citizens, according to the testimony of a paramilitary leader who said the nation's army trained the paramilitary groups. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
A former Yale University professor stole his own lucrative Nobel Prize-winning chemistry invention - a process for analyzing large molecules - from Yale, and then violated a university policy by licensing it out for profit, a federal judge has ruled. John Fenn was ordered to pay Yale $545,000 in royalties and penalties, and pay Yale's legal bills, which are approaching $500,000. (Newsday, Feb. 12)
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has completed its annual collection of data on black first-year enrollments at the eight Ivy League colleges and universities. This fall, blacks make up 9.3 percent of the first-year students at Yale University, the highest rate in the Ivy League and the highest rate at Yale in the past decade. (Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, February '04 issue)
"Through the entrance of the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College came the smell of incense, the occasional sound of bells and the chanting of seven Buddhist nuns from a Nepalese monastery. Part prayer, part performance, part process, this was the beginning of the end of a two-week effort to create - and on [Feb. 14], dismantle - a mandala, a meditative sand sculpture popular in Buddhist tradition," noted the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
Responding to concerns that onerous visa requirements are discouraging foreign students and scientists from coming to the United States, the State Department has extended the time many of them can remain before renewing security clearances. (New York Times, Feb. 14)
A University of Connecticut student, John Bjorge of West Hartford, implicated in a scheme to steal expensive electronic equipment from a campus building in November, was charged on Feb. 9 with stealing plasma-screen televisions valued at $40,000 from another campus building in May. (Hartford Courant, Feb. 10)
Upcoming
The university's signing of an agreement to place up to 136 upperclassmen in new housing at the redeveloped Sage-Allen property in downtown Hartford will be the subject of stories in the Hartford Courant and Hartford Inquirer.
The Micro Business Incubator program, in which Barney School of Business students work with small business owners in Upper Albany, will be featured in a story in Small Biz, a national, quarterly publication of BusinessWeek magazine.
University High School of Science and Engineering student Jacob Komar and his family will be featured on "CBS Sunday Morning" in a story on Jan and Bob Davidson's work with highly gifted children. The show is scheduled to air on Sunday, March 6.
President Harrison was interviewed by Hartford Magazine, along with the presidents of the University of Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut State University, Trinity College, St. Joseph College and Central Connecticut State University, for the cover story in the magazine's April issue.
