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Media Watch (May 1-8, 2006)
Posted 5/9/2006
“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.
Hartt School Dean Malcolm Morrison was profiled in a cover story, headlined “The Heart of Hartt” in the “Arts” section of the Sunday Hartford Courant. “When he walks across campus, Malcolm Morrison takes large steps. Partly it’s because the dean of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford is a tall man with a naturally long gait. But partly it’s because Morrison feels like he still has a lot of territory to cover,” noted the story. Morrison has been directing a production of Shakespeare’s King John, which was previewed in the “Cal” section of the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, May 4 and May 7)
A photo essay in the “Life” section of the Hartford Courant focused on the Hartt Community Division’s efforts to increase the number of Hartford young people receiving dance instruction. The Hartt Community Division has a partnership program with Hartford’s Boys and Girls Clubs to allow children to attend a free pre-ballet class once a week at the Hartt ballet school building on Farmington Avenue. Michael Yaffe, director of the Community Division, said he believes all children should have access to the arts at an early age. (Hartford Courant, May 6)
Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell wrote about the need for more funding for youth employment programs, and highlighted the success of Project Crecer (Spanish for “to grow”), a summer youth employment program run by the University of Hartford’s Career Development Center. Project Crecer counts among its 1,000 alumni teachers, lawyers and social workers. "While we've been content to fund more costly pick-up-the-pieces programs, these kids just want jobs. They are as aware as any adult of the benefit of self-sufficiency," said Colleen Kruger, director of continuing and professional education and youth programs at the Career Development Center. (Hartford Courant, May 3)
Nels P. Highberg, an assistant professor of rhetoric, language and culture in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, had a letter to the editor published in the Hartford Courant. The letter was in response to a story about novelist Philip Roth’s musings on losing friends now that he is in his 60s. “Being 36, only half of Roth’s age, I already know what it is like to lose peers to suicide, drug overdoses and AIDS,” Highberg wrote. “As a university professor, I have read student essays describing the deaths of friends by drunken driving, gun and knife violence, and leukemia.” (Hartford Courant, May 7)
The “Accolades” section of the Hartford Business Journal included a photograph of University President Walter Harrison and Regents Bobbi McNeil and Richard Weaver-Bey honoring fellow Regent Ron Copes, vice president of community relations at MassMutual Financial Group, for his 16 years of service through the University’s Educational Main Street (EMS) program. (Hartford Business Journal, May 8)
In a story about college students buying term papers online, a few University of Hartford students were interviewed on the topic of “cyber-cheating.” Alexis Langois, a freshman at the University of Hartford, said that “coming in as a freshman, they do a whole speech about plagiarism and the consequences of it, so the teachers do the best they can to make us all aware of what can happen.” (WFSB-TV Channel 3, May 4)
David Desplaces, an assistant professor of marketing and director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship at the Barney School of Business, was quoted in a Waterbury Republican-American story about the potential of Connecticut Business Magazine, which is being relaunched under new ownership. (Waterbury Republican-American, May 5)
The Connecticut Democratic Committee has decided to hold its convention at the Connecticut Expo Center instead of the University of Hartford. The Democrats’ executive director, Justin M. Kronholm, said University officials had been especially cooperative, but that party officials didn’t want to inconvenience parents who would be on campus for Commencement exercises. (Journal-Inquirer, Manchester, May 5)
The Hartford Advocate highlighted the Joseloff Gallery's current exhibition, “Symbols, Icons and Indices: Signs of the Times,” a show by Canadian graphic designer Robert Peters; New York City-based designer Mark Randall; and design writer Akiko Busch, the 2005–06 recipients of the Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts. (Hartford Advocate, May 5)
Rajiv Hiranandani, chief executive officer of India’s leading mobile gaming company, was profiled in India Times and he talked about his days as an MBA student at the University’s Barney School of Business. It was there that he honed much of his people skills through his interactions with fellow students from around the world. “That has given me the ability to mix and meet with people from different cultures,” he said. (India Times, May 5)
The Hartford Courant’s “Health Notes” column led with an item that the Beta Sigma Lambda Education Foundation of Alpha Phi Alpha was organizing a performance of stepping by more than a dozen teams from college fraternities, schools and community groups as the highlight of a health and fitness event on May 6 in the Chase Family Arena. The goal of the event was to showcase the nontraditional fitness method derived from African American culture as a way to combat obesity, a leading cause of death in African Americans and others. (Hartford Courant, May 6)
In a story about the state legislature’s actions on the final day of the session, it was noted that the House avoided voting on a Senate plan to ban the practice of “zone pricing” that allows major oil companies to charge different prices to retailers at different stations. One opponent of the proposal was Rep. Demetrios Giannaros, a Farmington Democrat who is a professor of economics at the University’s Barney School of Business. He said the proposal would “decrease competition and increase prices.” (Hartford Courant, May 4)
The University’s new Learning Innovation Performance (LIP) certificate program was highlighted in the April issue of Business Times. The program is designed for working professionals who have had a training component added to their jobs, but have never been given the tools to be good trainers or to assess their training techniques. (Business Times, April 2006 issue)
Quinnipiac head baseball coach Dan Gooley got his 400th career win. Ironically, the victory came against the University of Hartford, a program that he coached to 102 wins during a five-year stint from 1988-92.”They just happened to be the 400th today,” Gooley said. “I have fond memories of the University of Hartford.” (New Haven Register, May 5)
Other News
On May 7, the 2,951 seniors gathered in Gampel Pavilion at the University of Connecticut for two Commencement ceremonies that featured remarks by U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). About 900 students also received their doctoral or master’s degrees at the University of Connecticut on May 6. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen received an honorary doctor of laws degree and delivered that Commencement address. (Hartford Courant, May 7 and 8)
After serving more than a decade as president of Wesleyan University, Doug Bennet, 67, announced he will retire next spring. The one-time academic outsider has boosted the endowment, overseen an ambitious campus construction program and forged strong links with the city of Middletown. (Hartford Courant, May 5)
A bogus phone call to the University of Maine System from someone calling himself Scott Northfield, a Chronicle of Higher Education intern, allegedly came from the cellphone of Evan Dobelle, former president of Trinity College. The caller told a university official he was seeking information about the salary and benefits of Maine’s departing chancellor. No such person works at The Chronicle, the newspaper said, and Dobelle denied the report. (Hartford Courant, May 5)
The University of Vermont has banned alcohol in all campus dormitories next fall even if students are old enough to drink. The new policy is intended to curb binge drinking and drinking-related violations of school rules that are increasing on campus. The new policy will affect about 7 percent of the 5,000 students who will live on campus in the fall who are at least 21 years old. (Hartford Courant, May 5)
Francis Williams, the University of Connecticut’s deputy fire chief, a 34-year veteran of the department, has been promoted to the new position of fire chief and given a 34 percent pay raise only days before he was set to retire, and without posting the job. (Hartford Courant, May 4)
The transformation of Temple University in recent years from a commuter school to a residential campus is stimulating private investment in one of the city’s most troubled neighborhoods. Today, more than 8,000 students live on or near the main campus in North Philadelphia, twice as many as four years ago. About half live in housing built by the university or created by private developers on property owned by Temple. (New York Times, May 4)
Diana Chapman Walsh, 61, announced she would step down as Wellesley College president in June 2007 after a 14-year run that included record fundraising totals and considerable expansion at the prestigious women’s school. (Boston Globe, May 4)
Sheela Sangan, 43, former researcher in internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine is suing Yale University for discrimination, claiming she was belittled and harassed by her boss and that the university retaliated against her after she complained. Sangan now works in a private research lab. (Hartford Courant, May 4)
Qatar has decided on the distribution of about $60 million of a $100 million gift for Hurricane Katrina victims. The beneficiaries include $12.5 million to expand the facilities of Xavier University’s college of pharmacy; $10 million for scholarships at Tulane University for students who are Katrina victims; $5 million for scholarships for Katrina victims at Xavier University; and $3.3 million for a student relief fund at Louisiana State University. (Associated Press, May 3) <>
Faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute came within six votes of declaring “no confidence” in President Shirley Ann Jackson. Jackson, who took the helm at the school in 1998, has a reputation among some faculty as being uncompromising and authoritative. The vote came after a faculty pension plan was threatened. The final tally was 155 to 149. (Albany Times Union, May 2)
The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America sent letters to 40 university presidents in 25 states alerting them to piracy problems on local area networks run on their campuses and encouraging them to take action to prevent theft by their use. (Washington Post, May 2)
Hartt School Dean Malcolm Morrison was profiled in a cover story, headlined “The Heart of Hartt” in the “Arts” section of the Sunday Hartford Courant. “When he walks across campus, Malcolm Morrison takes large steps. Partly it’s because the dean of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford is a tall man with a naturally long gait. But partly it’s because Morrison feels like he still has a lot of territory to cover,” noted the story. Morrison has been directing a production of Shakespeare’s King John, which was previewed in the “Cal” section of the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, May 4 and May 7)
A photo essay in the “Life” section of the Hartford Courant focused on the Hartt Community Division’s efforts to increase the number of Hartford young people receiving dance instruction. The Hartt Community Division has a partnership program with Hartford’s Boys and Girls Clubs to allow children to attend a free pre-ballet class once a week at the Hartt ballet school building on Farmington Avenue. Michael Yaffe, director of the Community Division, said he believes all children should have access to the arts at an early age. (Hartford Courant, May 6)
Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell wrote about the need for more funding for youth employment programs, and highlighted the success of Project Crecer (Spanish for “to grow”), a summer youth employment program run by the University of Hartford’s Career Development Center. Project Crecer counts among its 1,000 alumni teachers, lawyers and social workers. "While we've been content to fund more costly pick-up-the-pieces programs, these kids just want jobs. They are as aware as any adult of the benefit of self-sufficiency," said Colleen Kruger, director of continuing and professional education and youth programs at the Career Development Center. (Hartford Courant, May 3)
Nels P. Highberg, an assistant professor of rhetoric, language and culture in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, had a letter to the editor published in the Hartford Courant. The letter was in response to a story about novelist Philip Roth’s musings on losing friends now that he is in his 60s. “Being 36, only half of Roth’s age, I already know what it is like to lose peers to suicide, drug overdoses and AIDS,” Highberg wrote. “As a university professor, I have read student essays describing the deaths of friends by drunken driving, gun and knife violence, and leukemia.” (Hartford Courant, May 7)
The “Accolades” section of the Hartford Business Journal included a photograph of University President Walter Harrison and Regents Bobbi McNeil and Richard Weaver-Bey honoring fellow Regent Ron Copes, vice president of community relations at MassMutual Financial Group, for his 16 years of service through the University’s Educational Main Street (EMS) program. (Hartford Business Journal, May 8)
In a story about college students buying term papers online, a few University of Hartford students were interviewed on the topic of “cyber-cheating.” Alexis Langois, a freshman at the University of Hartford, said that “coming in as a freshman, they do a whole speech about plagiarism and the consequences of it, so the teachers do the best they can to make us all aware of what can happen.” (WFSB-TV Channel 3, May 4)
David Desplaces, an assistant professor of marketing and director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship at the Barney School of Business, was quoted in a Waterbury Republican-American story about the potential of Connecticut Business Magazine, which is being relaunched under new ownership. (Waterbury Republican-American, May 5)
The Connecticut Democratic Committee has decided to hold its convention at the Connecticut Expo Center instead of the University of Hartford. The Democrats’ executive director, Justin M. Kronholm, said University officials had been especially cooperative, but that party officials didn’t want to inconvenience parents who would be on campus for Commencement exercises. (Journal-Inquirer, Manchester, May 5)
The Hartford Advocate highlighted the Joseloff Gallery's current exhibition, “Symbols, Icons and Indices: Signs of the Times,” a show by Canadian graphic designer Robert Peters; New York City-based designer Mark Randall; and design writer Akiko Busch, the 2005–06 recipients of the Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts. (Hartford Advocate, May 5)
Rajiv Hiranandani, chief executive officer of India’s leading mobile gaming company, was profiled in India Times and he talked about his days as an MBA student at the University’s Barney School of Business. It was there that he honed much of his people skills through his interactions with fellow students from around the world. “That has given me the ability to mix and meet with people from different cultures,” he said. (India Times, May 5)
The Hartford Courant’s “Health Notes” column led with an item that the Beta Sigma Lambda Education Foundation of Alpha Phi Alpha was organizing a performance of stepping by more than a dozen teams from college fraternities, schools and community groups as the highlight of a health and fitness event on May 6 in the Chase Family Arena. The goal of the event was to showcase the nontraditional fitness method derived from African American culture as a way to combat obesity, a leading cause of death in African Americans and others. (Hartford Courant, May 6)
In a story about the state legislature’s actions on the final day of the session, it was noted that the House avoided voting on a Senate plan to ban the practice of “zone pricing” that allows major oil companies to charge different prices to retailers at different stations. One opponent of the proposal was Rep. Demetrios Giannaros, a Farmington Democrat who is a professor of economics at the University’s Barney School of Business. He said the proposal would “decrease competition and increase prices.” (Hartford Courant, May 4)
The University’s new Learning Innovation Performance (LIP) certificate program was highlighted in the April issue of Business Times. The program is designed for working professionals who have had a training component added to their jobs, but have never been given the tools to be good trainers or to assess their training techniques. (Business Times, April 2006 issue)
Quinnipiac head baseball coach Dan Gooley got his 400th career win. Ironically, the victory came against the University of Hartford, a program that he coached to 102 wins during a five-year stint from 1988-92.”They just happened to be the 400th today,” Gooley said. “I have fond memories of the University of Hartford.” (New Haven Register, May 5)
Other News
On May 7, the 2,951 seniors gathered in Gampel Pavilion at the University of Connecticut for two Commencement ceremonies that featured remarks by U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). About 900 students also received their doctoral or master’s degrees at the University of Connecticut on May 6. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen received an honorary doctor of laws degree and delivered that Commencement address. (Hartford Courant, May 7 and 8)
After serving more than a decade as president of Wesleyan University, Doug Bennet, 67, announced he will retire next spring. The one-time academic outsider has boosted the endowment, overseen an ambitious campus construction program and forged strong links with the city of Middletown. (Hartford Courant, May 5)
A bogus phone call to the University of Maine System from someone calling himself Scott Northfield, a Chronicle of Higher Education intern, allegedly came from the cellphone of Evan Dobelle, former president of Trinity College. The caller told a university official he was seeking information about the salary and benefits of Maine’s departing chancellor. No such person works at The Chronicle, the newspaper said, and Dobelle denied the report. (Hartford Courant, May 5)
The University of Vermont has banned alcohol in all campus dormitories next fall even if students are old enough to drink. The new policy is intended to curb binge drinking and drinking-related violations of school rules that are increasing on campus. The new policy will affect about 7 percent of the 5,000 students who will live on campus in the fall who are at least 21 years old. (Hartford Courant, May 5)
Francis Williams, the University of Connecticut’s deputy fire chief, a 34-year veteran of the department, has been promoted to the new position of fire chief and given a 34 percent pay raise only days before he was set to retire, and without posting the job. (Hartford Courant, May 4)
The transformation of Temple University in recent years from a commuter school to a residential campus is stimulating private investment in one of the city’s most troubled neighborhoods. Today, more than 8,000 students live on or near the main campus in North Philadelphia, twice as many as four years ago. About half live in housing built by the university or created by private developers on property owned by Temple. (New York Times, May 4)
Diana Chapman Walsh, 61, announced she would step down as Wellesley College president in June 2007 after a 14-year run that included record fundraising totals and considerable expansion at the prestigious women’s school. (Boston Globe, May 4)
Sheela Sangan, 43, former researcher in internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine is suing Yale University for discrimination, claiming she was belittled and harassed by her boss and that the university retaliated against her after she complained. Sangan now works in a private research lab. (Hartford Courant, May 4)
Qatar has decided on the distribution of about $60 million of a $100 million gift for Hurricane Katrina victims. The beneficiaries include $12.5 million to expand the facilities of Xavier University’s college of pharmacy; $10 million for scholarships at Tulane University for students who are Katrina victims; $5 million for scholarships for Katrina victims at Xavier University; and $3.3 million for a student relief fund at Louisiana State University. (Associated Press, May 3) <>
Faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute came within six votes of declaring “no confidence” in President Shirley Ann Jackson. Jackson, who took the helm at the school in 1998, has a reputation among some faculty as being uncompromising and authoritative. The vote came after a faculty pension plan was threatened. The final tally was 155 to 149. (Albany Times Union, May 2)
The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America sent letters to 40 university presidents in 25 states alerting them to piracy problems on local area networks run on their campuses and encouraging them to take action to prevent theft by their use. (Washington Post, May 2)
