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Media Watch (June 19-26, 2006)
Posted 6/27/2006
"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.
Susan Matthews, a biology teacher at the University High School of Science and Engineering on the University’s Asylum Avenue campus, was selected as Hartford’s 2006-07 Teacher of the Year. University High School Principal Elizabeth Colli said Mathews’ approach of long labs for each topic gives students a real-life biology experience. “She’s passionate about what she does,” said Colli. (Hartford Courant, June 24)
The ceremonial groundbreaking to celebrate the start of construction on The Renée Samuels Center, a 15,000-square-foot, two-story addition to the Hartford Art School, was held on Tuesday, June 20. President Walter Harrison, HAS Dean Power Boothe, and other speakers praised the current and former HAS and University leaders who have been working for more than a decade to bring the dream of a modern new facility for the Art School to fruition. (WFSB-TV 3, June 21)
University President Emeritus Humphrey Tonkin appeared on CBC Radio’s “The Sunday Edition” program in a 15-minute interview about the international language of Esperanto. Tonkin is one of the world’s foremost Esperanto scholars, and has published hundreds of articles and essays about the language, in both English and Esperanto. (CBC Radio, Toronto, June 18)
In a story about the Buick Championship golf tournament in Cromwell this week, it was noted that "Connecticut connections" included, among others, former University of Hartford teammates Tim Petrovic, Jerry Kelly, and Patrick Sheehan. (Hartford Courant, June 26)
A March concert postponed because of snow has resulted in a rare summer opportunity to hear the Miami String Quartet at Lincoln Theater. The University's quartet-in-residence will perform works by Haydn and Schumann on Wednesday, June 28, at 7:30 p.m. They’ll be joined by pianist Melvin Chen in a chamber version of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E-flat, K. 449. (Hartford Courant, June 22)
A photo of Weaver High School students being picked up in a limousine and taken to lunch at the University’s 1877 Club ran in the “Connecticut” section of the Hartford Courant. The high school’s top achieving students were chosen as part of Educational Main Street’s “Star Treatment” program. EMS Director Mary Christensen said students from Fox Middle, the University High School of Science and Engineering, J.C. Clark and Annie Fisher elementary schools, also had the “Star Treatment.” (Hartford Courant, June 15)
Graduates of Georgetown Middle/High School in Massachusetts came together for a reunion concert while raising money to help the school’s music program. The idea originated with 2004 GHS graduate Katie Zahara, who is currently a junior studying music at The Hartt School. (Georgetown Record, June 23)
Artist Damian Loeb’s photorealistic image of California teenagers in a convertible, juxtaposed against a South African apartheid-era roadside beating, which is based on a Lauren Greenfield photograph, is on display at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield. A similarly inspired work, “Three Little Boys,” was taken off the walls of the University’s Joseloff Gallery two years ago amid several concerns, including copyright infringement. (Hartford Courant, June 26)
Almost 60 Connecticut teachers attended Anti-Defamation League (ADL) training sessions for a new Holocaust education curriculum developed by the ADL in conjunction with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and Yad Vashem in Israel. The sessions were held at the Mill Hill Road School in North Haven and at the University of Hartford. (The Jewish Ledger, June 23)
Other News
With $250 in donations from their parents, five Wesleyan University students launched an online forum, www.beyondpartisan.org, that stakes out a middle ground to counter the shouting matches which, they say, pass for political discourse these days. (Hartford Courant, June 26)
College students will head to various school districts in the fall to teach as part of an attempt to deal with teacher shortages and a lack of substitutes. A number of universities, including the University of New Haven, the University of Bridgeport, Quinnipiac University, and St. Joseph College, have seen an increase in the number of school districts taking part in their internship programs in the past few years. (Hartford Courant, June 26)
New Hampshire has passed Michelle’s Law, which allows seriously ill college students to take leave but keep their health insurance. Gov. John Lynch signed the bill, named after Michelle Morse, a 22-year-old student at Plymouth State University who died of colon cancer last November. Morse was forced to remain a full-time student, though she was undergoing chemotherapy, because her parents’ health insurance company would not let her take a leave of absence from college and maintain her dependent health coverage. (United Press International, June 26)
A collection of Martin Luther King Jr.’s handwritten documents and books will be given to his alma mater, Morehouse College. A coalition of businesses, individuals, and philanthropic leaders led by Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin bought the collection from the King family for an undisclosed amount. The objects were expected to sell for up to $30 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. Morehouse President Walter Massey said the Atlanta group offered more than that. (Associated Press, June 26)
Teach for America, a 16-year-old program that recruits some of the nation’s brightest college graduates to work in poor rural and urban schools, received special legislation allowing it to come into Connecticut, which is noted for its rigorous standards for entering teachers. Fifty candidates were granted temporary teaching permits under a new law that requires them to have adequate training, pass tests in the subjects they are assigned to teach, and enroll in a teacher training program. Most will teach in New Haven and Bridgeport. (Hartford Courant, June 22)
Happy with her performance and hoping to keep suitors with deep pockets at bay, University of Michigan regents are expected to reappoint President Mary Sue Coleman, 62, to a new five-year term. Her annual compensation package of $724,604 has made her the highest-paid public university president in the country. (Detroit Free Press, June 22)
The University of Connecticut board of trustees approved an $851.1 million budget for the coming year that attempts to better manage its $2.3 billion Uconn 2000 construction program and calls for more faculty for strategic areas. The budget is designed to address mismanagement, fire code problems, and cost overruns in the ongoing program. (Hartford Courant, June 21)
Upcoming
The West Hartford News will run a story about The Renée Samuels Center, the Hartford Art School addition currently under construction, in an upcoming issue.
John Feierabend, chair of The Hartt School’s Music Education division, was interviewed for an article about the children's music industry, which is scheduled to run in the Hartford Courant on Sunday, July 2.
Susan Matthews, a biology teacher at the University High School of Science and Engineering on the University’s Asylum Avenue campus, was selected as Hartford’s 2006-07 Teacher of the Year. University High School Principal Elizabeth Colli said Mathews’ approach of long labs for each topic gives students a real-life biology experience. “She’s passionate about what she does,” said Colli. (Hartford Courant, June 24)
The ceremonial groundbreaking to celebrate the start of construction on The Renée Samuels Center, a 15,000-square-foot, two-story addition to the Hartford Art School, was held on Tuesday, June 20. President Walter Harrison, HAS Dean Power Boothe, and other speakers praised the current and former HAS and University leaders who have been working for more than a decade to bring the dream of a modern new facility for the Art School to fruition. (WFSB-TV 3, June 21)
University President Emeritus Humphrey Tonkin appeared on CBC Radio’s “The Sunday Edition” program in a 15-minute interview about the international language of Esperanto. Tonkin is one of the world’s foremost Esperanto scholars, and has published hundreds of articles and essays about the language, in both English and Esperanto. (CBC Radio, Toronto, June 18)
In a story about the Buick Championship golf tournament in Cromwell this week, it was noted that "Connecticut connections" included, among others, former University of Hartford teammates Tim Petrovic, Jerry Kelly, and Patrick Sheehan. (Hartford Courant, June 26)
A March concert postponed because of snow has resulted in a rare summer opportunity to hear the Miami String Quartet at Lincoln Theater. The University's quartet-in-residence will perform works by Haydn and Schumann on Wednesday, June 28, at 7:30 p.m. They’ll be joined by pianist Melvin Chen in a chamber version of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E-flat, K. 449. (Hartford Courant, June 22)
A photo of Weaver High School students being picked up in a limousine and taken to lunch at the University’s 1877 Club ran in the “Connecticut” section of the Hartford Courant. The high school’s top achieving students were chosen as part of Educational Main Street’s “Star Treatment” program. EMS Director Mary Christensen said students from Fox Middle, the University High School of Science and Engineering, J.C. Clark and Annie Fisher elementary schools, also had the “Star Treatment.” (Hartford Courant, June 15)
Graduates of Georgetown Middle/High School in Massachusetts came together for a reunion concert while raising money to help the school’s music program. The idea originated with 2004 GHS graduate Katie Zahara, who is currently a junior studying music at The Hartt School. (Georgetown Record, June 23)
Artist Damian Loeb’s photorealistic image of California teenagers in a convertible, juxtaposed against a South African apartheid-era roadside beating, which is based on a Lauren Greenfield photograph, is on display at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield. A similarly inspired work, “Three Little Boys,” was taken off the walls of the University’s Joseloff Gallery two years ago amid several concerns, including copyright infringement. (Hartford Courant, June 26)
Almost 60 Connecticut teachers attended Anti-Defamation League (ADL) training sessions for a new Holocaust education curriculum developed by the ADL in conjunction with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and Yad Vashem in Israel. The sessions were held at the Mill Hill Road School in North Haven and at the University of Hartford. (The Jewish Ledger, June 23)
Other News
With $250 in donations from their parents, five Wesleyan University students launched an online forum, www.beyondpartisan.org, that stakes out a middle ground to counter the shouting matches which, they say, pass for political discourse these days. (Hartford Courant, June 26)
College students will head to various school districts in the fall to teach as part of an attempt to deal with teacher shortages and a lack of substitutes. A number of universities, including the University of New Haven, the University of Bridgeport, Quinnipiac University, and St. Joseph College, have seen an increase in the number of school districts taking part in their internship programs in the past few years. (Hartford Courant, June 26)
New Hampshire has passed Michelle’s Law, which allows seriously ill college students to take leave but keep their health insurance. Gov. John Lynch signed the bill, named after Michelle Morse, a 22-year-old student at Plymouth State University who died of colon cancer last November. Morse was forced to remain a full-time student, though she was undergoing chemotherapy, because her parents’ health insurance company would not let her take a leave of absence from college and maintain her dependent health coverage. (United Press International, June 26)
A collection of Martin Luther King Jr.’s handwritten documents and books will be given to his alma mater, Morehouse College. A coalition of businesses, individuals, and philanthropic leaders led by Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin bought the collection from the King family for an undisclosed amount. The objects were expected to sell for up to $30 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. Morehouse President Walter Massey said the Atlanta group offered more than that. (Associated Press, June 26)
Teach for America, a 16-year-old program that recruits some of the nation’s brightest college graduates to work in poor rural and urban schools, received special legislation allowing it to come into Connecticut, which is noted for its rigorous standards for entering teachers. Fifty candidates were granted temporary teaching permits under a new law that requires them to have adequate training, pass tests in the subjects they are assigned to teach, and enroll in a teacher training program. Most will teach in New Haven and Bridgeport. (Hartford Courant, June 22)
Happy with her performance and hoping to keep suitors with deep pockets at bay, University of Michigan regents are expected to reappoint President Mary Sue Coleman, 62, to a new five-year term. Her annual compensation package of $724,604 has made her the highest-paid public university president in the country. (Detroit Free Press, June 22)
The University of Connecticut board of trustees approved an $851.1 million budget for the coming year that attempts to better manage its $2.3 billion Uconn 2000 construction program and calls for more faculty for strategic areas. The budget is designed to address mismanagement, fire code problems, and cost overruns in the ongoing program. (Hartford Courant, June 21)
Upcoming
The West Hartford News will run a story about The Renée Samuels Center, the Hartford Art School addition currently under construction, in an upcoming issue.
John Feierabend, chair of The Hartt School’s Music Education division, was interviewed for an article about the children's music industry, which is scheduled to run in the Hartford Courant on Sunday, July 2.
