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Media Watch (Nov. 6 – 13, 2006)
Posted 11/14/2006
"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.
Janet Pickard Kremenitzer, assistant professor and coordinator of elementary education, ENHP, was mentioned in a feature article in the Hartford Courant titled “Beyond the Three R's: More Schools Taking Note of Emotional Intelligence." The article discussed the importance schools are now giving to emotional skills and the new programs that have been developed to help children gain abilities in these areas. Also mentioned in the article was Kathy Neuhaus, a third-grade teacher at the University of Hartford Magnet School (UHMS). Kremenitzer has been working with teachers at UHMS for the past three years on developing ways to bring emotional skills into the classroom. As UHMS is geared toward multiple intelligences, in which interpersonal and intrapersonal skills are already highlighted, the match for collaboration with ENHP is a natural fit. The article also featured photographs of students at UHMS. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 12)
William Major, associate professor of English at Hillyer College, had an article published in the “Commentary” section of the Hartford Courant on “Small Farms and The Big Picture.” Major’s article focused on Wendell Berry, who in the early 1960s left the literary life of New York City to return to his boyhood home in Henry County, Ky., to farm, write and think about the complex relationship between people and the land. “Many of his friends and cosmopolitan colleagues thought he was crazy. But after dozens of works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Berry’s voice remains as strong and necessary as ever,” Major noted. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 12)
An article about a gun being discharged in a University of Hartford residence hall generated several letters to the editor in the Hartford Courant. The first letter questioned why the Hartford police had to respond, and why Hartford taxpayers would pay, if the University is actually located in West Hartford. The West Hartford police chief responded with a letter that said the University’s campus is in both municipalities and that the appropriate authorities did respond. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 7 and Nov. 11)
Jilda Aliotta, chair of the politics and government department in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed by Bloomberg News as part of the network’s coverage of the mid-term elections, particularly the contested congressional and senatorial races in Connecticut. (Bloomberg News, Nov. 7)
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science in Hillyer College, was interviewed by NBC 30 for an Election Eve story. He also worked with MSNBC network on its coverage of the Nov. 7 mid-term elections, providing analysis of the congressional and senatorial races in Connecticut, as well as providing context for the election nationally. (NBC 30, Nov. 6; MSNBC, Nov. 7)
Democratic incumbent Demetrios Giannaros, 57, a professor of economics in the University’s Barney School of Business and a majority leader in the state House of Representatives, defeated GOP challenger William P. Mastrogiovanni Jr. by more than a 3-to-1 ratio to secure a seventh term representing the 21st House District. Giannaros, whose family emigrated from Greece to Boston when he was a teen, campaigned on a platform of continuing to serve the community and taking care of its most vulnerable, including the elderly, children and the most challenged. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8)
Marissa Cloutier, an instructor of biology in Hillyer College, was interviewed about the benefits of the Mediterranean Diet, and her book on the diet was very favorably reviewed in the Calgary Herald newspaper. (Calgary Herald, Canada, Nov. 2)
Steve Petusevsky, a freelance writer living in Coral Springs, Fla., and the author of The Whole Foods Market Cookbook, wrote a column for the Sun-Sentinel newspaper about Persian food and a recent reunion with his roommate at the University of Hartford who was from Iran. “Almost 30 years ago I attended the Hartford Art School, as an aspiring medical illustrator. My roommate, Benham, was a philosophy major from Iran. Although we were placed together by chance, we became best friends immediately. Aside from being very philosophical, Benham was an amazing cook. He prepared Persian dishes on our two-burner hot plate and introduced me to a completely unfamiliar cuisine. It’s one I learned to love. We dined like kings for several years, never going out for fast food like many college freshmen do,” he wrote. (Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Nov. 9)
University of Hartford graduate Jerry Kelly and Rod Pampling won the Merrill Lynch Shootout in Naples, Fla., beating Justin Leonard and Scott Verplank on the first playoff hole. Pampling and Kelly split $675,000 from the $2.75 million purse. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 13)
In its college basketball preview supplement, the Hartford Courant ran full-page articles, with photos, on the Hartford Hawks men’s and women’s basketball teams. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8)
In its local sports column, the Hartford Courant noted that the University of Hartford men’s rugby team (7-1) would be competing on Nov. 11 and 12 in Batavia, N.Y., for the Northeast championship and a bid to the Eastern Regional in April. “Last weekend, the Hawks finished second in New England among Division III teams, losing to defending national champion Bentley College,” the Courant said. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 10)
Walter Harrison, University of Hartford president and chair of the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance, was quoted in a story about the graduation rate of student-athletes at the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech. “I think presidents should set as goals for student-athletes to perform at or above the general student rate,” he said. “You should be trying to recruit student-athletes whose academic performance would mirror your student body.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Nov. 9)
Other News
Eleanor Spicer, a biochemistry professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, is suing Yale University, her former employer for allegedly cheating her out of her share of royalty payments in connection with her efforts to help develop a process for making the active ingredient in a widely used blood screening test. Spicer is also suing William Konigsberg, a lead scientist on the project and her former boss, according to the lawsuit, filed recently in U.S. District Court. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 11)
Eight new members have been elected to serve on the board of directors of the University of Connecticut Foundation. The directors are: David Barton, a businessman from Bonita Springs, Fla., who previously served as chairman of the foundation’s board; Andy F. Bessette of Minnesota, who is executive vice president and chief administrative officer at St. Paul Travelers; Anthony Crosby, a Southington attorney; Keith R. Fox of California, founder and chief executive officer of Brandsoft Inc.; Coleman B. Levy of West Hartford, a founder and senior principal of Levy and Droney and a co-owner of the New Britain Rock Cats; David P. Marks of West Hartford, chief investment officer for both CUNA Mutual Group in Madison, Wisc., and the CUNA Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Waverly, Iowa; William C. Stone of Avon, founder and chief executive officer of SS and C Technologies and a founding partner of the Uconn School of Business Financial Accelerator Project; and Elease E. Wright of Hartford, a senior vice president of human resources at Aetna Inc. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 7)
Capital Community College is offering a new associate’s degree program in gerontology and a new certificate program in gerontology. The degree program aims to prepare students interested in working with older populations, for gerontological certification in specific health care fields and to promote knowledge about aging among those working in social service agencies and community centers. The certificate program is targeted to workers changing careers, and physical therapists, nurses, medical assistants and social service workers who want to acquire a specialization in gerontology. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 7)
The Yale School of Medicine used cotton — some from shredded blue jeans — as insulation in two of its newly renovated research labs. Unlike the fiberglass batting stuffed between attic rafters, cotton grows from the earth and is safe on the lungs. Yale used it to win points with the U.S. Green Building Council, which sets the standards for building green. With the addition of a new, fresh air ventilation system and more windows to bring in natural light and views of trees in their fall reds and yellows, both labs met the council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design “gold” standard. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 9)
William J. Luddy Jr., a clinical professor of the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer at Hartford, has been appointed to the U.S. Technical Advisory Group working on the development of international standards for international trade and business for e-commerce and information technology. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 7)
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said college rankings are little more than popularity contests and called on states to establish a uniform system for comparing the performance of higher-education institutions. Current rankings such as the widely used survey by U.S. News & World Report “are almost entirely a function of three factors: fame, wealth and exclusivity,” she said. Colleges should be making themselves as easy to compare as cars on Web sites, which give such details as wheel size and the number of cup holders, Spellings said. (Arizona Daily Star, Nov. 6)
IBM is partnering with the University of Arizona’s business school on a new curriculum to put students on the leading edge of next-generation Web technology, tying entrepreneurial skills with computer savvy. The first-of-a-kind collaboration between IBM and UA’s management information systems department will help students master Web 2.0 technologies, including blogs, online social networking and podcasting. (MacNewsWorld, Nov. 7)
The chair of the Gallaudet University board of trustees resigned on Nov. 7, the day after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) stepped down from the board because he disagreed with the decision to end the appointment of incoming president Jane K. Fernandes. “I cannot in good conscience continue to serve the board after its decision to terminate her appointment, which I believe was unfair and not in the best interests of the University,” McCain wrote to outgoing President I. King Jordan. (The Washington Post, Nov. 8)
Some parents are writing their college-age kids’ resumes. Others are acting as their children's “representatives,” hounding college career counselors, showing up at job fairs and sometimes going as far as calling employers to ask why their son or daughter didn’t get a job. It’s the next phase in “helicopter parenting,” a term coined for those who have hovered over their children’s lives from kindergarten to college. Now they are inserting themselves into their kids’ job search—and school officials and employers say it’s a problem that may be hampering some young people’s careers. (CNN.com, Nov. 8; Associated Press, Nov. 8)
Stephen Tocco, in his first meeting as the new chairman of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees, said his top priority is to work with the state Legislature and Governor-elect Deval Patrick to make an education from the system's five campuses more affordable. Tocco said in an interview that he wants to expand need-based financial aid to middle-class families and offer free tuition to community colleges. Those two ideas were among recommendations in a $175 million financial-aid proposal released last month by the state Board of Higher Education. (The Boston Globe, Nov. 10)
NCAA president Myles Brand commended college athletes for their academic improvement on Nov. 9, then criticized poor fact-checking by the media and government for failing to report the true story. Brand said figures released by the NCAA prove athletes often outperform their peers in the classroom and called any other notion a “myth.” The latest federal graduation rates show athletes are more likely than the general student body to earn a diploma, and that female athletes continue to post higher numbers than their male counterparts. (CNN.com, Nov. 10; Associated Press, Nov. 10)
American college students are becoming more adventuresome as they study abroad, showing less interest in English-speaking destinations such as Great Britain and Australia and more in such alternatives as China, India, Argentina, and Brazil. Britain remained the most popular study destination last year, but the number of U.S. students studying in Britain and Australia declined slightly, even as the number of American students abroad rose 8 percent overall to 205,983 in 2005. The growth came in non-English speaking European countries and in Asia, which still attracts lower numbers overall but is growing rapidly. (CNN.com, Nov. 13; Associated Press, Nov. 13)
Upcoming
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the scheduled Ellsworth Lecturer, will be interviewed on the “Morning Show with Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith” on WTIC-AM at 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14. The lecture, being delivered on Wednesday, Nov. 15, in Lincoln Theater, will be filmed in its entirety and broadcast by CT-Network (cable channel 20 on most systems).
David Isgur, the University’s director of media relations, will be a guest on the “Morning Show with Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith” on WTIC-AM at 7:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14. He will be talking about the “Day in the Life” photography project, which is kicking off the celebration of the University’s 50th anniversary.
Janet Pickard Kremenitzer, assistant professor and coordinator of elementary education, ENHP, was mentioned in a feature article in the Hartford Courant titled “Beyond the Three R's: More Schools Taking Note of Emotional Intelligence." The article discussed the importance schools are now giving to emotional skills and the new programs that have been developed to help children gain abilities in these areas. Also mentioned in the article was Kathy Neuhaus, a third-grade teacher at the University of Hartford Magnet School (UHMS). Kremenitzer has been working with teachers at UHMS for the past three years on developing ways to bring emotional skills into the classroom. As UHMS is geared toward multiple intelligences, in which interpersonal and intrapersonal skills are already highlighted, the match for collaboration with ENHP is a natural fit. The article also featured photographs of students at UHMS. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 12)
William Major, associate professor of English at Hillyer College, had an article published in the “Commentary” section of the Hartford Courant on “Small Farms and The Big Picture.” Major’s article focused on Wendell Berry, who in the early 1960s left the literary life of New York City to return to his boyhood home in Henry County, Ky., to farm, write and think about the complex relationship between people and the land. “Many of his friends and cosmopolitan colleagues thought he was crazy. But after dozens of works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Berry’s voice remains as strong and necessary as ever,” Major noted. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 12)
An article about a gun being discharged in a University of Hartford residence hall generated several letters to the editor in the Hartford Courant. The first letter questioned why the Hartford police had to respond, and why Hartford taxpayers would pay, if the University is actually located in West Hartford. The West Hartford police chief responded with a letter that said the University’s campus is in both municipalities and that the appropriate authorities did respond. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 7 and Nov. 11)
Jilda Aliotta, chair of the politics and government department in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed by Bloomberg News as part of the network’s coverage of the mid-term elections, particularly the contested congressional and senatorial races in Connecticut. (Bloomberg News, Nov. 7)
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science in Hillyer College, was interviewed by NBC 30 for an Election Eve story. He also worked with MSNBC network on its coverage of the Nov. 7 mid-term elections, providing analysis of the congressional and senatorial races in Connecticut, as well as providing context for the election nationally. (NBC 30, Nov. 6; MSNBC, Nov. 7)
Democratic incumbent Demetrios Giannaros, 57, a professor of economics in the University’s Barney School of Business and a majority leader in the state House of Representatives, defeated GOP challenger William P. Mastrogiovanni Jr. by more than a 3-to-1 ratio to secure a seventh term representing the 21st House District. Giannaros, whose family emigrated from Greece to Boston when he was a teen, campaigned on a platform of continuing to serve the community and taking care of its most vulnerable, including the elderly, children and the most challenged. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8)
Marissa Cloutier, an instructor of biology in Hillyer College, was interviewed about the benefits of the Mediterranean Diet, and her book on the diet was very favorably reviewed in the Calgary Herald newspaper. (Calgary Herald, Canada, Nov. 2)
Steve Petusevsky, a freelance writer living in Coral Springs, Fla., and the author of The Whole Foods Market Cookbook, wrote a column for the Sun-Sentinel newspaper about Persian food and a recent reunion with his roommate at the University of Hartford who was from Iran. “Almost 30 years ago I attended the Hartford Art School, as an aspiring medical illustrator. My roommate, Benham, was a philosophy major from Iran. Although we were placed together by chance, we became best friends immediately. Aside from being very philosophical, Benham was an amazing cook. He prepared Persian dishes on our two-burner hot plate and introduced me to a completely unfamiliar cuisine. It’s one I learned to love. We dined like kings for several years, never going out for fast food like many college freshmen do,” he wrote. (Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Nov. 9)
University of Hartford graduate Jerry Kelly and Rod Pampling won the Merrill Lynch Shootout in Naples, Fla., beating Justin Leonard and Scott Verplank on the first playoff hole. Pampling and Kelly split $675,000 from the $2.75 million purse. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 13)
In its college basketball preview supplement, the Hartford Courant ran full-page articles, with photos, on the Hartford Hawks men’s and women’s basketball teams. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8)
In its local sports column, the Hartford Courant noted that the University of Hartford men’s rugby team (7-1) would be competing on Nov. 11 and 12 in Batavia, N.Y., for the Northeast championship and a bid to the Eastern Regional in April. “Last weekend, the Hawks finished second in New England among Division III teams, losing to defending national champion Bentley College,” the Courant said. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 10)
Walter Harrison, University of Hartford president and chair of the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance, was quoted in a story about the graduation rate of student-athletes at the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech. “I think presidents should set as goals for student-athletes to perform at or above the general student rate,” he said. “You should be trying to recruit student-athletes whose academic performance would mirror your student body.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Nov. 9)
Other News
Eleanor Spicer, a biochemistry professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, is suing Yale University, her former employer for allegedly cheating her out of her share of royalty payments in connection with her efforts to help develop a process for making the active ingredient in a widely used blood screening test. Spicer is also suing William Konigsberg, a lead scientist on the project and her former boss, according to the lawsuit, filed recently in U.S. District Court. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 11)
Eight new members have been elected to serve on the board of directors of the University of Connecticut Foundation. The directors are: David Barton, a businessman from Bonita Springs, Fla., who previously served as chairman of the foundation’s board; Andy F. Bessette of Minnesota, who is executive vice president and chief administrative officer at St. Paul Travelers; Anthony Crosby, a Southington attorney; Keith R. Fox of California, founder and chief executive officer of Brandsoft Inc.; Coleman B. Levy of West Hartford, a founder and senior principal of Levy and Droney and a co-owner of the New Britain Rock Cats; David P. Marks of West Hartford, chief investment officer for both CUNA Mutual Group in Madison, Wisc., and the CUNA Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Waverly, Iowa; William C. Stone of Avon, founder and chief executive officer of SS and C Technologies and a founding partner of the Uconn School of Business Financial Accelerator Project; and Elease E. Wright of Hartford, a senior vice president of human resources at Aetna Inc. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 7)
Capital Community College is offering a new associate’s degree program in gerontology and a new certificate program in gerontology. The degree program aims to prepare students interested in working with older populations, for gerontological certification in specific health care fields and to promote knowledge about aging among those working in social service agencies and community centers. The certificate program is targeted to workers changing careers, and physical therapists, nurses, medical assistants and social service workers who want to acquire a specialization in gerontology. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 7)
The Yale School of Medicine used cotton — some from shredded blue jeans — as insulation in two of its newly renovated research labs. Unlike the fiberglass batting stuffed between attic rafters, cotton grows from the earth and is safe on the lungs. Yale used it to win points with the U.S. Green Building Council, which sets the standards for building green. With the addition of a new, fresh air ventilation system and more windows to bring in natural light and views of trees in their fall reds and yellows, both labs met the council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design “gold” standard. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 9)
William J. Luddy Jr., a clinical professor of the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer at Hartford, has been appointed to the U.S. Technical Advisory Group working on the development of international standards for international trade and business for e-commerce and information technology. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 7)
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said college rankings are little more than popularity contests and called on states to establish a uniform system for comparing the performance of higher-education institutions. Current rankings such as the widely used survey by U.S. News & World Report “are almost entirely a function of three factors: fame, wealth and exclusivity,” she said. Colleges should be making themselves as easy to compare as cars on Web sites, which give such details as wheel size and the number of cup holders, Spellings said. (Arizona Daily Star, Nov. 6)
IBM is partnering with the University of Arizona’s business school on a new curriculum to put students on the leading edge of next-generation Web technology, tying entrepreneurial skills with computer savvy. The first-of-a-kind collaboration between IBM and UA’s management information systems department will help students master Web 2.0 technologies, including blogs, online social networking and podcasting. (MacNewsWorld, Nov. 7)
The chair of the Gallaudet University board of trustees resigned on Nov. 7, the day after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) stepped down from the board because he disagreed with the decision to end the appointment of incoming president Jane K. Fernandes. “I cannot in good conscience continue to serve the board after its decision to terminate her appointment, which I believe was unfair and not in the best interests of the University,” McCain wrote to outgoing President I. King Jordan. (The Washington Post, Nov. 8)
Some parents are writing their college-age kids’ resumes. Others are acting as their children's “representatives,” hounding college career counselors, showing up at job fairs and sometimes going as far as calling employers to ask why their son or daughter didn’t get a job. It’s the next phase in “helicopter parenting,” a term coined for those who have hovered over their children’s lives from kindergarten to college. Now they are inserting themselves into their kids’ job search—and school officials and employers say it’s a problem that may be hampering some young people’s careers. (CNN.com, Nov. 8; Associated Press, Nov. 8)
Stephen Tocco, in his first meeting as the new chairman of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees, said his top priority is to work with the state Legislature and Governor-elect Deval Patrick to make an education from the system's five campuses more affordable. Tocco said in an interview that he wants to expand need-based financial aid to middle-class families and offer free tuition to community colleges. Those two ideas were among recommendations in a $175 million financial-aid proposal released last month by the state Board of Higher Education. (The Boston Globe, Nov. 10)
NCAA president Myles Brand commended college athletes for their academic improvement on Nov. 9, then criticized poor fact-checking by the media and government for failing to report the true story. Brand said figures released by the NCAA prove athletes often outperform their peers in the classroom and called any other notion a “myth.” The latest federal graduation rates show athletes are more likely than the general student body to earn a diploma, and that female athletes continue to post higher numbers than their male counterparts. (CNN.com, Nov. 10; Associated Press, Nov. 10)
American college students are becoming more adventuresome as they study abroad, showing less interest in English-speaking destinations such as Great Britain and Australia and more in such alternatives as China, India, Argentina, and Brazil. Britain remained the most popular study destination last year, but the number of U.S. students studying in Britain and Australia declined slightly, even as the number of American students abroad rose 8 percent overall to 205,983 in 2005. The growth came in non-English speaking European countries and in Asia, which still attracts lower numbers overall but is growing rapidly. (CNN.com, Nov. 13; Associated Press, Nov. 13)
Upcoming
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the scheduled Ellsworth Lecturer, will be interviewed on the “Morning Show with Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith” on WTIC-AM at 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14. The lecture, being delivered on Wednesday, Nov. 15, in Lincoln Theater, will be filmed in its entirety and broadcast by CT-Network (cable channel 20 on most systems).
David Isgur, the University’s director of media relations, will be a guest on the “Morning Show with Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith” on WTIC-AM at 7:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14. He will be talking about the “Day in the Life” photography project, which is kicking off the celebration of the University’s 50th anniversary.
