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Media Watch (Dec. 11-Dec. 18, 2006)
Posted 12/18/2006
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.
The retirement of former University of Hartford baseball star and Houston Astros Jeff Bagwell was covered in national media. Bagwell, named one of the Hartford Courant's top Connecticut athletes of the 20th century, was featured in a front-page story after announcing his retirement Friday from his 15-year career in Major League Baseball. Dan Gooley, former baseball coach at the University of Hartford, said Bagwell wasn't one for false confidence and spoke with conviction, backed with action. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 16, Dec. 14; Houston Chronicle, Dec. 16; Associated Press, Dec. 16)
Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department, wrote a cover story titled “The New Evangelists,” in Yale Alumni Magazine. The article discusses how Yale and its Divinity School helped shape mainline Protestantism, and American Protestant culture, for nearly two centuries, and looks at how they figure in American religious life today. Goldstein’s article can be seen at http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com . (Yale Alumni Magazine, November/December, 2006)
A photo of third-graders at Hartford’s Dwight Elementary School shopping at a Target store in Windsor, was published in the Hartford Courant. Target and the University of Hartford athletics department sponsored a community service event in which the students received a $50 gift card. Women’s basketball coach Jen Rizzotti and team members read to children as part of Target’s Ready, Set, Read! Program. The children also went on a shopping spree with members of the basketball team. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 12; NBC 30; WFSB-TV3)
Jeffrey P. Cohen, associate professor of economics, wrote an editorial in the Hartford Courant about a two-rate tax, also known as a “split tax” on land and buildings. Legislation proposed earlier this year would have authorized Connecticut's large cities to levy a "split tax.” Cohen writes that this tax is a promising idea whose effects cannot be accurately be predicted without some experience. “Perhaps the answer for the legislature a pilot program, to see how it works,” writes Cohen. “It certainly is worth a try.” (Hartford Courant, Dec. 17)
The appointment of Arosha Jayawickrema to vice president for finance and administration at the University of Hartford was listed in the “Career Ladder” section of the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 18)
On Nov. 23, the Esperanto service of Polish Radio broadcast an interview with Humphrey Tonkin, president emeritus and University Professor of the Humanities, about his new book, Lingvo kaj Popolo (Language and People). The interview can be heard at Listen to the mp3 audio file. (Polskie Radio, Nov. 23)
Women’s Basketball Coach Jen Rizzotti was quoted in a Hartford Courant story about how the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics would like to ban male practice players in all women's sports. Rizzotti uses men as practice players when injuries have decimated her team, but she doesn't use them now. "I feel like I'm not getting some of my other kids enough practice time if I have male players out there," she said. "The kids who are trying to earn minutes don't get a chance to play against the starters and look good enough to me for me to give them a shot. If we didn't have to see if anybody else was ready to play, I might do it." (Hartford Courant, Dec. 18)
Performers from The Hartt School and the graduate musical theater writing program at New York University will attend a series of lectures, seminars and other events with industry professionals at Goodspeed Musicals in January and February. Hartt actors will be featured in staged readings of works-in-progress Jan. 17 to 19 at the second annual Goodspeed Festival of New Artists. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 14)
Social studies teacher Mark Napoli at Bridgeport’s Longfellow School has made the Holocaust a focus in his seventh-grade world cultures class as he is considered for the Ruth Korzenik and Joseph Zola 2007 Holocaust Educator Award. The award, in its 15th year, is run by the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. Richard Freund, director of the center, said 28 educators from "all over the map" applied for this year's internationally recognized award. (Connecticut Post, Dec. 18)
Other News
St. Joseph College announced that President Evelyn C. Lynch will resign at the end of the month. The Catholic women's college in West Hartford made the announcement in a brief press release, saying that the school will begin a national search for a new president and hopes to name an interim president by Dec. 31. Her resignation comes at a crucial time for the college, which is trying to rebound from a sudden, unexpected dip in enrollment this fall. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 13)
Trinity College officials, professors and students have been forced to reexamine their daily interactions with one another this semester after a series of racially polarizing events that have drawn widespread complaints from minorities over what they see as a climate of incivility and intolerance within their privileged campus. Since October, two minority women have reported that racial slurs were scribbled on message boards outside their dorm rooms. In addition, many of Trinity’s minority students said they had long felt discriminated against. (New York Times, Dec. 18)
University of Connecticut police are warning the campus to be on guard after three UConn students were assaulted in two late-night, off-campus attacks outside the Celeron Square Apartments. In both cases, several young men beat up the victims, who were treated at area hospitals for head and facial injuries. Police said the attackers appeared to be college-age. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 13)
More than half the faculty at Boston University, Northeastern, Tufts, and Harvard are part-time or not on the tenure track, according to a study by the American Association of University Professors. Professors and advocates for students have raised concerns for years that colleges are increasingly turning to less expensive, temporary labor and eroding the tenure system, to the detriment of students and scholars alike. (The Boston Globe, Dec. 12)
With the race for rankings and choice students shaping college pricing, the University of Notre Dame, Bryn Mawr College, Rice University, the University of Richmond and Hendrix College, in Conway, Ark., are just a few that have sharply increased tuition to match colleges they consider their rivals, while also providing more financial assistance. (New York Times, Dec. 12)
As parents and students cope with rising costs of higher education, many debate whether attending private institutions is worth the expense. Tuition on average rose by 81 percent, more than double the inflation rate, between 1993 and 2004. Financial aid provided by private institutions has grown more than tuition, by 135 percent over the same period, and some universities provide substantial assistance to low-income students. Still, the dollar amounts are hard for most applicants to ignore. (New York Times, Dec. 13)
Facebook is no longer just a fun way for students to keep in touch. It is now essential to the college experience, a fact that faculty and staff are scurrying to catch up with. Soon to enter its fourth year, Facebook has matured into a warehouse of school information, a big-time player in campus activism, and a mirror of university life—good and bad. More than 12 million users are signed up. (The Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 13)
Democrats plan to put money in the pockets of college students and closely examine a law reforming elementary and secondary schools. Democrats, who won the House and Senate in last month's elections, say they will quickly move to slash interest rates on need-based college loans in half—from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent. (CNN.com/Associated Press, Dec. 13)
Elson Floyd, president of the University of Missouri system, as Washington State University (WSU)'s 10th president. Floyd will be the first African-American president at WSU and will join the university at a time officials are trying to increase diversity among students and faculty. The move comes four months after WSU President Lane Rawlins, 68, announced he was retiring at the end of the academic year. (The Seattle Times, Dec. 14)
Clarion University is dropping its men's cross country and indoor and outdoor track teams to meet requirements mandated by Title IX, the landmark gender-equity law. The move impacts about 25 student-athletes, and will take effect at the end of the spring 2007 semester. University President Joseph Grunenwald said that adding women's sports, facilities and scholarships had resulted in only modest success in achieving Title IX compliance. (Associated Press, Dec. 14)
The University of Texas at San Antonio unveiled a new financial aid campaign that promises a full ride for students from low-income families. Dubbed UTSAccess, the program will pay full tuition and fees for incoming freshmen beginning next fall whose families make less than $25,000 per year. The offer includes a work-study job on campus for 10 to 12 hours per week to help cover living expenses, and requires students to take 30 credit hours per year and maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average. (San Antonio Express-News, Dec. 14)
Upcoming
Richard Freund, director of the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, will be a guest with Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith on WTIC-AM's "Morning Show" to discuss the premiere of a CNN documentary on "The First Christians" in which he is featured. The interview will be on Wednesday, Dec. 20, at 7:20 a.m. and the documentary premieres that same night on CNN.
Freund will also be a guest on WTIC-AM radio's "Face Connecticut" show on Sunday, Dec. 24, to discuss the early history of Christianity.
David Desplaces, assistant professor and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at the Barney School of Business, and students in his "Principles of Entrepreneurship" class will be featured for their work with Simsbury business owners in an article in the January issue of Connecticut Business Magazine.
Marissa Cloutier, instructor in biology in Hillyer College, was interviewed for an article to be published in the Publix GreenWise Market Magazine in June 2007. Publix is a large supermarket chain in the south which is known for their healthy offerings. Cloutier was also interviewed for an upcoming article in The Southington Citizen.
The retirement of former University of Hartford baseball star and Houston Astros Jeff Bagwell was covered in national media. Bagwell, named one of the Hartford Courant's top Connecticut athletes of the 20th century, was featured in a front-page story after announcing his retirement Friday from his 15-year career in Major League Baseball. Dan Gooley, former baseball coach at the University of Hartford, said Bagwell wasn't one for false confidence and spoke with conviction, backed with action. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 16, Dec. 14; Houston Chronicle, Dec. 16; Associated Press, Dec. 16)
Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department, wrote a cover story titled “The New Evangelists,” in Yale Alumni Magazine. The article discusses how Yale and its Divinity School helped shape mainline Protestantism, and American Protestant culture, for nearly two centuries, and looks at how they figure in American religious life today. Goldstein’s article can be seen at http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com . (Yale Alumni Magazine, November/December, 2006)
A photo of third-graders at Hartford’s Dwight Elementary School shopping at a Target store in Windsor, was published in the Hartford Courant. Target and the University of Hartford athletics department sponsored a community service event in which the students received a $50 gift card. Women’s basketball coach Jen Rizzotti and team members read to children as part of Target’s Ready, Set, Read! Program. The children also went on a shopping spree with members of the basketball team. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 12; NBC 30; WFSB-TV3)
Jeffrey P. Cohen, associate professor of economics, wrote an editorial in the Hartford Courant about a two-rate tax, also known as a “split tax” on land and buildings. Legislation proposed earlier this year would have authorized Connecticut's large cities to levy a "split tax.” Cohen writes that this tax is a promising idea whose effects cannot be accurately be predicted without some experience. “Perhaps the answer for the legislature a pilot program, to see how it works,” writes Cohen. “It certainly is worth a try.” (Hartford Courant, Dec. 17)
The appointment of Arosha Jayawickrema to vice president for finance and administration at the University of Hartford was listed in the “Career Ladder” section of the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 18)
On Nov. 23, the Esperanto service of Polish Radio broadcast an interview with Humphrey Tonkin, president emeritus and University Professor of the Humanities, about his new book, Lingvo kaj Popolo (Language and People). The interview can be heard at Listen to the mp3 audio file. (Polskie Radio, Nov. 23)
Women’s Basketball Coach Jen Rizzotti was quoted in a Hartford Courant story about how the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics would like to ban male practice players in all women's sports. Rizzotti uses men as practice players when injuries have decimated her team, but she doesn't use them now. "I feel like I'm not getting some of my other kids enough practice time if I have male players out there," she said. "The kids who are trying to earn minutes don't get a chance to play against the starters and look good enough to me for me to give them a shot. If we didn't have to see if anybody else was ready to play, I might do it." (Hartford Courant, Dec. 18)
Performers from The Hartt School and the graduate musical theater writing program at New York University will attend a series of lectures, seminars and other events with industry professionals at Goodspeed Musicals in January and February. Hartt actors will be featured in staged readings of works-in-progress Jan. 17 to 19 at the second annual Goodspeed Festival of New Artists. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 14)
Social studies teacher Mark Napoli at Bridgeport’s Longfellow School has made the Holocaust a focus in his seventh-grade world cultures class as he is considered for the Ruth Korzenik and Joseph Zola 2007 Holocaust Educator Award. The award, in its 15th year, is run by the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. Richard Freund, director of the center, said 28 educators from "all over the map" applied for this year's internationally recognized award. (Connecticut Post, Dec. 18)
Other News
St. Joseph College announced that President Evelyn C. Lynch will resign at the end of the month. The Catholic women's college in West Hartford made the announcement in a brief press release, saying that the school will begin a national search for a new president and hopes to name an interim president by Dec. 31. Her resignation comes at a crucial time for the college, which is trying to rebound from a sudden, unexpected dip in enrollment this fall. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 13)
Trinity College officials, professors and students have been forced to reexamine their daily interactions with one another this semester after a series of racially polarizing events that have drawn widespread complaints from minorities over what they see as a climate of incivility and intolerance within their privileged campus. Since October, two minority women have reported that racial slurs were scribbled on message boards outside their dorm rooms. In addition, many of Trinity’s minority students said they had long felt discriminated against. (New York Times, Dec. 18)
University of Connecticut police are warning the campus to be on guard after three UConn students were assaulted in two late-night, off-campus attacks outside the Celeron Square Apartments. In both cases, several young men beat up the victims, who were treated at area hospitals for head and facial injuries. Police said the attackers appeared to be college-age. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 13)
More than half the faculty at Boston University, Northeastern, Tufts, and Harvard are part-time or not on the tenure track, according to a study by the American Association of University Professors. Professors and advocates for students have raised concerns for years that colleges are increasingly turning to less expensive, temporary labor and eroding the tenure system, to the detriment of students and scholars alike. (The Boston Globe, Dec. 12)
With the race for rankings and choice students shaping college pricing, the University of Notre Dame, Bryn Mawr College, Rice University, the University of Richmond and Hendrix College, in Conway, Ark., are just a few that have sharply increased tuition to match colleges they consider their rivals, while also providing more financial assistance. (New York Times, Dec. 12)
As parents and students cope with rising costs of higher education, many debate whether attending private institutions is worth the expense. Tuition on average rose by 81 percent, more than double the inflation rate, between 1993 and 2004. Financial aid provided by private institutions has grown more than tuition, by 135 percent over the same period, and some universities provide substantial assistance to low-income students. Still, the dollar amounts are hard for most applicants to ignore. (New York Times, Dec. 13)
Facebook is no longer just a fun way for students to keep in touch. It is now essential to the college experience, a fact that faculty and staff are scurrying to catch up with. Soon to enter its fourth year, Facebook has matured into a warehouse of school information, a big-time player in campus activism, and a mirror of university life—good and bad. More than 12 million users are signed up. (The Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 13)
Democrats plan to put money in the pockets of college students and closely examine a law reforming elementary and secondary schools. Democrats, who won the House and Senate in last month's elections, say they will quickly move to slash interest rates on need-based college loans in half—from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent. (CNN.com/Associated Press, Dec. 13)
Elson Floyd, president of the University of Missouri system, as Washington State University (WSU)'s 10th president. Floyd will be the first African-American president at WSU and will join the university at a time officials are trying to increase diversity among students and faculty. The move comes four months after WSU President Lane Rawlins, 68, announced he was retiring at the end of the academic year. (The Seattle Times, Dec. 14)
Clarion University is dropping its men's cross country and indoor and outdoor track teams to meet requirements mandated by Title IX, the landmark gender-equity law. The move impacts about 25 student-athletes, and will take effect at the end of the spring 2007 semester. University President Joseph Grunenwald said that adding women's sports, facilities and scholarships had resulted in only modest success in achieving Title IX compliance. (Associated Press, Dec. 14)
The University of Texas at San Antonio unveiled a new financial aid campaign that promises a full ride for students from low-income families. Dubbed UTSAccess, the program will pay full tuition and fees for incoming freshmen beginning next fall whose families make less than $25,000 per year. The offer includes a work-study job on campus for 10 to 12 hours per week to help cover living expenses, and requires students to take 30 credit hours per year and maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average. (San Antonio Express-News, Dec. 14)
Upcoming
Richard Freund, director of the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, will be a guest with Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith on WTIC-AM's "Morning Show" to discuss the premiere of a CNN documentary on "The First Christians" in which he is featured. The interview will be on Wednesday, Dec. 20, at 7:20 a.m. and the documentary premieres that same night on CNN.
Freund will also be a guest on WTIC-AM radio's "Face Connecticut" show on Sunday, Dec. 24, to discuss the early history of Christianity.
David Desplaces, assistant professor and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at the Barney School of Business, and students in his "Principles of Entrepreneurship" class will be featured for their work with Simsbury business owners in an article in the January issue of Connecticut Business Magazine.
Marissa Cloutier, instructor in biology in Hillyer College, was interviewed for an article to be published in the Publix GreenWise Market Magazine in June 2007. Publix is a large supermarket chain in the south which is known for their healthy offerings. Cloutier was also interviewed for an upcoming article in The Southington Citizen.
