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Media Watch (Nov. 21-27, 2006)
Posted 11/28/2006
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.
David Desplaces, assistant professor and director of the Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Barney School of Business, was interviewed by WTIC-AM radio about the work that the University’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) chapter has done with small business owners in Simsbury, Avon, Vernon, and Hartford. (WTIC-AM, Nov. 27)
Jacob Komar, 14, who attends the University High School of Science and Engineering in Hartford and also takes classes at the University of Hartford, was featured in a story and photograph on the front page of the “Connecticut” section of the Courant for a program that his Computers for Communities organization is undertaking with inmates at Cheshire Correctional Institution. Under this program, inmates are working to refurbish computers, which are then donated to needy families in Hartford. Komar plans to get his high school and college diplomas at the same time; he hopes to graduate in 2008. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 27)
In the “Keys to the City” feature in its “Commentary” section, the Hartford Courant outlined the timelines for construction of the new University High School of Science and Engineering building on Mark Twain Drive and the proposed University of Hartford Performing Arts Center project on Albany Avenue. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 26)
The two public magnet schools on campus—the University of Hartford Magnet School for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students and the University High School of Science and Engineering—were prominently mentioned during a televised panel discussion of new school options for Hartford parents created since the Sheff v. O’Neill school desegregation lawsuit 10 years ago. Hartford Courant education reporter Robert Frahm cited the long waiting list of Hartford parents who want to send their children to the University of Hartford Magnet School and Regina Hopkins, an attorney and former Hartford Public Schools administrator, noted the growth of the University High School. (CT Network, Nov. 23)
Harvey Jassem, associate professor of communication in the College of Arts and Sciences, had a letter to the editor published in the Hartford Courant. The letter, which was the lead item in the section, was in response to recent reports of violence as people waited in line to purchase new computer game systems. “So here’s a call to shop modestly, to be certain to make meaningful contributions to those less fortunate and to avoid buying the products whose makers manipulate the market so that we might fight over them,” he wrote. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 26)
Warren Goldstein, chair of the department of history at the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, and a recent article that he wrote for the Yale alumni magazine, exploring the challenges facing mainline Protestantism, were cited in an opinion pice in the Jamestown Press newspaper. (Jamestown Press, Jamestown, R.I., Nov. 22)
Steve Petusevsky, a freelance writer living in Coral Springs, Fla., and the author of The Whole Foods Market Cookbook, wrote a column that was published in the Hartford Courant about Persian food and a recent reunion with his University of Hartford roommate 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. 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,” he wrote. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 26)
Louise R. Feldman, 58, of Canton, Conn., an adjunct faculty member at the University for several years who died on Nov. 5, was profiled in the Hartford Courant. A technical writer/computer programmer at Aetna, she resigned from the company and returned to her first love–literature. She started Torah Treks with the help of naturalist Alisa Phillips — a series of walks in the woods with a backdrop of Jewish spirituality. Groups from synagogues and youth groups attended. As part of her battle with breast cancer, Feldman started “Cancer on the Ropes,” an outward Bound-type program for cancer survivors. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 26)
Anthony Maulucci, who taught English at the University of Connecticut, the University of Hartford, Mitchell College, and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, wrote an opinion article about his love affair with the typewriter and how he favors that machine over more modern technology. (The Day, New London, Nov. 26)
Other News
While some colleges and their presidents have seen their reputations shredded on student blogs and others have tried to limit what students and faculty members may say online, about a dozen are vaulting the digital and generational divide and starting their own blogs. Veterans of campus public relations disasters warn that presidents blog at their peril. However, these presidents say blogs make their campuses seem cool and open a direct line, more or less, to students, alumni and the public. (New York Times, Nov. 22)
In a move that could shake up the book industry, publishing giant Pearson PLC is joining with two top business schools to create a business book authored and edited by a "wiki,” an online community dedicated to writing. The effort is inspired, in part, by Wikipedia, a nonprofit online encyclopedia. The wiki book, produced by a community of business experts and managers, will be called We Are Smarter Than Me. It will explore how businesses can use online communities, consumer-generated media such as blogs, and other Web content to help in their market. (Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22)
The nation’s top public universities “are becoming disproportionately whiter and richer,” says a new report by the nonprofit Education Trust that looks at enrollment and graduation rates at 50 public flagship universities. The report argues that financial aid practices at those and similar institutions create barriers for low-income and minority students. (USA Today, Nov. 21)
Some universities are forcefully pursuing students to collect unpaid loans and other debt, sometimes taking them to court, refusing to release their transcripts, and tacking on fees of as much as 66 percent of the original balance. Advocates for students say these universities’ aggressive pursuit of the debt conflicts with their responsibilities to the community. Those who end up in debt are often from poor backgrounds, and the first in their families to go to college. (The Boston Globe, Nov. 21)
North Carolina State University reached $1 billion in its fundraising campaign for facilities, scholarships and salaries. The $1 billion achievement was announced 19 months before the end of the campaign. The university had already raised $836 million in a "silent phase" of the campaign when the $1 billion goal was made public in September 2005. The university will continue its fundraising efforts until June 2008. (The News & Observer, Charlotte, N.C., Nov. 21)
Two University of Pennsylvania students were convicted and each sentenced by a Philadelphia judge to nine months’ probation for their roles in an October 2005 fraternity hazing incident. Kelechi Okenerke, 21, a senior premed student, and Lionel Anderson-Perez, 24, a graduate student, were convicted of simple assault and harassment in the incident involving E. Martyn Griffen, then a 20-year-old junior history major. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 21)
U.S. officials said they will encourage more applications from students in China wanting to study in America. Officials from the U.S. Education Department and China’s Ministry of Education signed a memorandum of understanding about jointly supporting expanded educational opportunities, as well as student and faculty exchanges. (Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22)
After regaining control of Congress for the first time in a dozen years, Democrats will set out to redefine the domestic agenda through policies they say would address the economic needs of middle- and working-class Americans. Democratic lawmakers want to shift the dialogue on Capitol Hill to workers’ pay, college tuition, health-care costs, retirees’ income and other issues that touch ordinary families. (The Washington Post, Nov. 22)
David Desplaces, assistant professor and director of the Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Barney School of Business, was interviewed by WTIC-AM radio about the work that the University’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) chapter has done with small business owners in Simsbury, Avon, Vernon, and Hartford. (WTIC-AM, Nov. 27)
Jacob Komar, 14, who attends the University High School of Science and Engineering in Hartford and also takes classes at the University of Hartford, was featured in a story and photograph on the front page of the “Connecticut” section of the Courant for a program that his Computers for Communities organization is undertaking with inmates at Cheshire Correctional Institution. Under this program, inmates are working to refurbish computers, which are then donated to needy families in Hartford. Komar plans to get his high school and college diplomas at the same time; he hopes to graduate in 2008. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 27)
In the “Keys to the City” feature in its “Commentary” section, the Hartford Courant outlined the timelines for construction of the new University High School of Science and Engineering building on Mark Twain Drive and the proposed University of Hartford Performing Arts Center project on Albany Avenue. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 26)
The two public magnet schools on campus—the University of Hartford Magnet School for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students and the University High School of Science and Engineering—were prominently mentioned during a televised panel discussion of new school options for Hartford parents created since the Sheff v. O’Neill school desegregation lawsuit 10 years ago. Hartford Courant education reporter Robert Frahm cited the long waiting list of Hartford parents who want to send their children to the University of Hartford Magnet School and Regina Hopkins, an attorney and former Hartford Public Schools administrator, noted the growth of the University High School. (CT Network, Nov. 23)
Harvey Jassem, associate professor of communication in the College of Arts and Sciences, had a letter to the editor published in the Hartford Courant. The letter, which was the lead item in the section, was in response to recent reports of violence as people waited in line to purchase new computer game systems. “So here’s a call to shop modestly, to be certain to make meaningful contributions to those less fortunate and to avoid buying the products whose makers manipulate the market so that we might fight over them,” he wrote. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 26)
Warren Goldstein, chair of the department of history at the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, and a recent article that he wrote for the Yale alumni magazine, exploring the challenges facing mainline Protestantism, were cited in an opinion pice in the Jamestown Press newspaper. (Jamestown Press, Jamestown, R.I., Nov. 22)
Steve Petusevsky, a freelance writer living in Coral Springs, Fla., and the author of The Whole Foods Market Cookbook, wrote a column that was published in the Hartford Courant about Persian food and a recent reunion with his University of Hartford roommate 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. 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,” he wrote. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 26)
Louise R. Feldman, 58, of Canton, Conn., an adjunct faculty member at the University for several years who died on Nov. 5, was profiled in the Hartford Courant. A technical writer/computer programmer at Aetna, she resigned from the company and returned to her first love–literature. She started Torah Treks with the help of naturalist Alisa Phillips — a series of walks in the woods with a backdrop of Jewish spirituality. Groups from synagogues and youth groups attended. As part of her battle with breast cancer, Feldman started “Cancer on the Ropes,” an outward Bound-type program for cancer survivors. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 26)
Anthony Maulucci, who taught English at the University of Connecticut, the University of Hartford, Mitchell College, and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, wrote an opinion article about his love affair with the typewriter and how he favors that machine over more modern technology. (The Day, New London, Nov. 26)
Other News
While some colleges and their presidents have seen their reputations shredded on student blogs and others have tried to limit what students and faculty members may say online, about a dozen are vaulting the digital and generational divide and starting their own blogs. Veterans of campus public relations disasters warn that presidents blog at their peril. However, these presidents say blogs make their campuses seem cool and open a direct line, more or less, to students, alumni and the public. (New York Times, Nov. 22)
In a move that could shake up the book industry, publishing giant Pearson PLC is joining with two top business schools to create a business book authored and edited by a "wiki,” an online community dedicated to writing. The effort is inspired, in part, by Wikipedia, a nonprofit online encyclopedia. The wiki book, produced by a community of business experts and managers, will be called We Are Smarter Than Me. It will explore how businesses can use online communities, consumer-generated media such as blogs, and other Web content to help in their market. (Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22)
The nation’s top public universities “are becoming disproportionately whiter and richer,” says a new report by the nonprofit Education Trust that looks at enrollment and graduation rates at 50 public flagship universities. The report argues that financial aid practices at those and similar institutions create barriers for low-income and minority students. (USA Today, Nov. 21)
Some universities are forcefully pursuing students to collect unpaid loans and other debt, sometimes taking them to court, refusing to release their transcripts, and tacking on fees of as much as 66 percent of the original balance. Advocates for students say these universities’ aggressive pursuit of the debt conflicts with their responsibilities to the community. Those who end up in debt are often from poor backgrounds, and the first in their families to go to college. (The Boston Globe, Nov. 21)
North Carolina State University reached $1 billion in its fundraising campaign for facilities, scholarships and salaries. The $1 billion achievement was announced 19 months before the end of the campaign. The university had already raised $836 million in a "silent phase" of the campaign when the $1 billion goal was made public in September 2005. The university will continue its fundraising efforts until June 2008. (The News & Observer, Charlotte, N.C., Nov. 21)
Two University of Pennsylvania students were convicted and each sentenced by a Philadelphia judge to nine months’ probation for their roles in an October 2005 fraternity hazing incident. Kelechi Okenerke, 21, a senior premed student, and Lionel Anderson-Perez, 24, a graduate student, were convicted of simple assault and harassment in the incident involving E. Martyn Griffen, then a 20-year-old junior history major. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 21)
U.S. officials said they will encourage more applications from students in China wanting to study in America. Officials from the U.S. Education Department and China’s Ministry of Education signed a memorandum of understanding about jointly supporting expanded educational opportunities, as well as student and faculty exchanges. (Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22)
After regaining control of Congress for the first time in a dozen years, Democrats will set out to redefine the domestic agenda through policies they say would address the economic needs of middle- and working-class Americans. Democratic lawmakers want to shift the dialogue on Capitol Hill to workers’ pay, college tuition, health-care costs, retirees’ income and other issues that touch ordinary families. (The Washington Post, Nov. 22)
