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Media Watch (Dec. 18, 2006 - Jan. 2, 2007)
Posted 1/3/2007
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 cover story of the Dec. 22 Connecticut Jewish Ledger featured a question-and-answer article with Richard Freund, director of the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, about the CNN documentary “After Jesus-The First Christians.” The CNN documentary featured Freund, leader of the Bethsaida Excavations Project in Israel. The article’s photos and cover photo where taken by Christine Dalenta, photography instructor at the Hartford Art School and curator of the Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization. The CNN documentary premiered on Wednesday, Dec. 20. Freund was also a guest on WTIC-AM radio's "Face Connecticut" show on Sunday, Dec. 24, to discuss the early history of Christianity. (CNN, Dec. 20; Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Dec. 22; WTIC-AM, Dec. 24) (Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Dec. 22)
Two six-acre parcels of undeveloped land on the University of Hartford campus will remain protected under an agreement between the school and the West Hartford Land Trust. The University will still own the parcels, but the land trust will care for them and maintain them under a conservation easement. “We really do want this to be a cooperative venture,” said Dave Isgur, director of media relations. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 21)
Marissa Cloutier, a biology and nutrition instructor in Hillyer College, was featured in a Southington Citizen article about health, nutrition, and enjoying food throughout the holidays. She suggests that people trying to recover from holiday enjoyment from food must remember that moderation is key. (Southington Citizen, Dec. 29)
In the Hartford Courant’s “Cal” section, Owen McNally wrote that the death of Jackie McLean, renowned alto saxophonist and educator, was the saddest news story for the jazz community in 2006. McLean founded and developed a pioneering jazz program at The Hartt School. The program is now known as the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz. The article also mentioned that Hartt faculty member and trombonist Steve Davis, and saxophonists “Sweet” Sue Terry and Jimmy Green, all Hartt alumni, were inspired by McLean, an empathetic, but demanding teacher. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 28)
The University of Hartford women's basketball team’s first NCAA Tournament game win and upset against Temple, a top 25 team, was ranked sixth by the Associated Press and tenth by The Hartford Courant in their annual lists of the top 19 sports stories of 2006. (Associated Press, Dec. 31; Boston Globe, Dec. 31; Hartford Courant, Dec. 31)
Earlier in the week, Women’s Basketball Coach Jen Rizzotti was quoted in an article in the Hartford Courant. "We try to be very detail-oriented about things that an outsider or most people don't notice—whether it's calling out names on passes, or clapping for each other during drills, or touching every line [in sprints]," Rizzotti said. "It's allowed us to be a sharper basketball program and have some success. I don't know that every program does it and I'm not sure why. It's just part of success. You can't be sloppy and not care about little things." (Hartford Courant, Dec. 28)
President Walter Harrison was quoted in an article about University regent Jennifer Smith Turner, president of the board of directors of Hartford Stage, who collaborated with her sister Valarie Smith, an artist, to produce Lost and Found: Rhyming Verses Honoring African American Heroes. The book is "more than an homage to African American heroes; it is an homage to the American spirit," says Harrison. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 24)
An article by Demetrios Giannaros, professor of economics at the Barney School of Business, appeared in CT Business magazine. In "Creating Economic Sustainability," Giannaros examines the contributions of two recent Nobel Prize winners, Muhammad Yunus, for peace, and Edmund Phelps, for economics. Both Nobel Laureates are economists. “Yunus and Phelps have shaken up modern thinking on how to improve overall economic conditions and maintain lower unemployment rates,” Giannaros writes, “especially for the disadvantaged in the world economy.” (CT Business, Dec. 2006)
At the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, the exhibition “Femme brut(e)” highlights contemporary female artists who push the limits of their media. The exhibition points to the historically marginalized position of women in art, according to Sherry Buckberrough, associate professor of art history and women’s studies, who wrote much of the wall text accompanying the artwork. Most of these artists came of age during the revolutionary era of feminism in the late ’60s and early ’70s. (Boston Globe, Dec. 31)
In a Hartford Courant story about the reopening of Temple Street to traffic, residences, and restaurants in downtown Hartford, it was noted that the reopening will roughly coincide with the completion of the city's newest apartments at the old Sage-Allen—built for more than 130 University of Hartford students with an additional 78 market-rate loft units. (Hartford Courant, Jan. 2)
In the Hartford Courant’s annual wish list for Hartford in its “Commentary” section, the column said the remake of the Bowles Park/Westbrook Village housing projects in the northwest part of the city represents a chance to give the University of Hartford a college-town feel. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 31)
Herman Todd, owner of Living Word Imprints, a printing shop in Hartford’s North End was contacted by the University’s Micro Business Incubator that pairs students from the Barney School of Business with local business owners to provide assistance. "Herman is very good at what he does—the printing business," said Margery Steinberg, the Barney School marketing professor who founded the program. "He didn't know much about marketing and merchandising. He had that wonderful storefront, but it didn't look inviting. A student worked to lay it out in a way that was user-friendly." (Hartford Courant, Dec. 20)
Ten former Uconn All-Americans were named "Huskies of Honor," as permanent panels on the wall were unveiled after the Uconn-Colorado State game. Some players—such as University of Hartford Women’s Basketball Coach Jen Rizzotti—were getting ready to play Santa for their young children. Rizzotti also shared her favorite memory of Christmas Eve at her grandparents' house. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 22 and 23)
Janet Peckinpaugh, who serves on the Hartford Art School board of corporators and on the board of directors for the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, retired from NBC 30 Connecticut News on Dec. 22, 2006. (NBC 30, Dec. 22)
Vin Baker, a former University basketball standout and NBA star, has proposed a 10-lot subdivision of his 30-acre property on Old Blue Hills Road at a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. Baker’s representatives, attorney and engineer were present and discussed their plan to subdivide his 30-acre property in 10 lots. The hearing was tabled to the next PZC meeting on Jan. 3. (Middletown Press, Dec. 24)
Tim Loughran, who attended the University of Hartford in the early 1980s, is now managing partner of cleanroom construction company AdvanceTEC in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The firm's 21 employees have built facilities across the U.S. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dec. 24)
A Boston Herald girls basketball preview noted that Reading High School’s Mary Silvia will be headed off to the University of Hartford in the fall to continue her basketball career. (Boston Herald, Dec. 23)
Other News
A group of Wesleyan University students has launched an online magazine that strives to promote activism among the college crowd. Like other progressive political journals, Incite Magazine provides a largely left-of-center take on the important issues of the day. But it has another goal as well: to foment activism and encourage involvement. (Hartford Courant, Jan. 2)
The University of Connecticut says it has missed out on millions of dollars in donations from Connecticut corporations for student scholarships, research and other purposes, all because of a ruling on a new state ethics provision. Designed to curb contracting abuses, the provision prohibits state agencies, including Uconn, from accepting gifts and donations from certain Connecticut corporations and lobbyists. The idea is to prevent them from using the gifts to buy access and influence. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 26)
Hugh Ogden, a 69-year-old Trinity College English professor and well-known poet, broke through the unusually thin ice and drowned while cross-country skiing in Maine. His death shocked his family and members of the college community. His children had been planning a surprise celebration later this year for Ogden's 70th birthday and his 40th anniversary of teaching at Trinity. (Hartford Courant, Jan. 2)
At a time when traditional media are fragmenting, the newspaper industry is under siege and many people get their nightly news from "The Daily Show," Middlesex Community College is launching a journalism program. The program's founder, John Shafer, acknowledged that his timing is "interesting," but he said he believes the need for good reporting and writing is more crucial than ever. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 27)
Colleges in Connecticut reported a sharp increase in nursing graduates this year—25 percent more than a year ago—but not enough to overcome a statewide shortage of registered nurses, experts say. A new report by the state Department of Higher Education said colleges in the state issued 1,076 registered nursing degrees during 2006, just shy of the number of annual job openings for registered nurses projected by the state Department of Labor. (Hartford Courant, Jan. 1)
Since the 1970s, women have surged into science and engineering classes in larger and larger numbers, yet studies show that women in science still routinely receive less research support than their male colleagues, and they have not reached the top academic ranks in numbers anything like their growing presence would suggest. (New York Times, Dec. 19)
Princeton University has joined a growing list of colleges that have deals to allow students to download music free and legally. Princeton announced the arrangement with Ruckus, a Virginia-based company that markets music solely to college students. Under the deal, Princeton students can put all the music they want on their computer hard drives through Ruckus' library of 1.5 million tracks. But it will cost students about $20 a semester to be able to put the tunes on their portable MP3 players. (Associated Press, Dec. 19)
The U.S. Department of Education is planning to propose limits early next year on how much universities can charge former students in collection fees if they default on government loans. Colleges routinely charge debtors collection fees between 33 percent and 50 percent of the original balance on loans or unpaid tuition. Some advocates for students, specialists on consumer debt, and university administrators called the fees at many colleges excessive. (Boston Globe, Dec. 20) .
University of Connecticut President Philip E. Austin, 64, is stepping down from the demanding job as CEO of the state's flagship university, effective next September. He recently reached his 10-year anniversary and the university was on an upswing after a decade of unprecedented transformation. After a sabbatical, he plans to return to Uconn as a professor, a path taken by his predecessor, former President Harry Hartley. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 21)
The University of Connecticut hasn't even started a national search for a new president, but faculty, students and civic leaders are weighing in, saying UConn needs a dynamic leader with a clear vision to raise the university to the next level academically. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 25)
From Stanford University on the West Coast to the Ivy League schools of the Northeast, U.S. universities are in the grip of a building boom that looks set to extend well into 2009. Reasons for the whirl of construction activity vary—from a surge in enrollment as children of the baby-boom generation enter college, to growing competition in China and other Asian regions for the world's top scientists. (Reuters, Dec. 21)
Upcoming
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 CT Business magazine.
The cover story of the Dec. 22 Connecticut Jewish Ledger featured a question-and-answer article with Richard Freund, director of the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, about the CNN documentary “After Jesus-The First Christians.” The CNN documentary featured Freund, leader of the Bethsaida Excavations Project in Israel. The article’s photos and cover photo where taken by Christine Dalenta, photography instructor at the Hartford Art School and curator of the Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization. The CNN documentary premiered on Wednesday, Dec. 20. Freund was also a guest on WTIC-AM radio's "Face Connecticut" show on Sunday, Dec. 24, to discuss the early history of Christianity. (CNN, Dec. 20; Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Dec. 22; WTIC-AM, Dec. 24) (Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Dec. 22)
Two six-acre parcels of undeveloped land on the University of Hartford campus will remain protected under an agreement between the school and the West Hartford Land Trust. The University will still own the parcels, but the land trust will care for them and maintain them under a conservation easement. “We really do want this to be a cooperative venture,” said Dave Isgur, director of media relations. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 21)
Marissa Cloutier, a biology and nutrition instructor in Hillyer College, was featured in a Southington Citizen article about health, nutrition, and enjoying food throughout the holidays. She suggests that people trying to recover from holiday enjoyment from food must remember that moderation is key. (Southington Citizen, Dec. 29)
In the Hartford Courant’s “Cal” section, Owen McNally wrote that the death of Jackie McLean, renowned alto saxophonist and educator, was the saddest news story for the jazz community in 2006. McLean founded and developed a pioneering jazz program at The Hartt School. The program is now known as the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz. The article also mentioned that Hartt faculty member and trombonist Steve Davis, and saxophonists “Sweet” Sue Terry and Jimmy Green, all Hartt alumni, were inspired by McLean, an empathetic, but demanding teacher. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 28)
The University of Hartford women's basketball team’s first NCAA Tournament game win and upset against Temple, a top 25 team, was ranked sixth by the Associated Press and tenth by The Hartford Courant in their annual lists of the top 19 sports stories of 2006. (Associated Press, Dec. 31; Boston Globe, Dec. 31; Hartford Courant, Dec. 31)
Earlier in the week, Women’s Basketball Coach Jen Rizzotti was quoted in an article in the Hartford Courant. "We try to be very detail-oriented about things that an outsider or most people don't notice—whether it's calling out names on passes, or clapping for each other during drills, or touching every line [in sprints]," Rizzotti said. "It's allowed us to be a sharper basketball program and have some success. I don't know that every program does it and I'm not sure why. It's just part of success. You can't be sloppy and not care about little things." (Hartford Courant, Dec. 28)
President Walter Harrison was quoted in an article about University regent Jennifer Smith Turner, president of the board of directors of Hartford Stage, who collaborated with her sister Valarie Smith, an artist, to produce Lost and Found: Rhyming Verses Honoring African American Heroes. The book is "more than an homage to African American heroes; it is an homage to the American spirit," says Harrison. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 24)
An article by Demetrios Giannaros, professor of economics at the Barney School of Business, appeared in CT Business magazine. In "Creating Economic Sustainability," Giannaros examines the contributions of two recent Nobel Prize winners, Muhammad Yunus, for peace, and Edmund Phelps, for economics. Both Nobel Laureates are economists. “Yunus and Phelps have shaken up modern thinking on how to improve overall economic conditions and maintain lower unemployment rates,” Giannaros writes, “especially for the disadvantaged in the world economy.” (CT Business, Dec. 2006)
At the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, the exhibition “Femme brut(e)” highlights contemporary female artists who push the limits of their media. The exhibition points to the historically marginalized position of women in art, according to Sherry Buckberrough, associate professor of art history and women’s studies, who wrote much of the wall text accompanying the artwork. Most of these artists came of age during the revolutionary era of feminism in the late ’60s and early ’70s. (Boston Globe, Dec. 31)
In a Hartford Courant story about the reopening of Temple Street to traffic, residences, and restaurants in downtown Hartford, it was noted that the reopening will roughly coincide with the completion of the city's newest apartments at the old Sage-Allen—built for more than 130 University of Hartford students with an additional 78 market-rate loft units. (Hartford Courant, Jan. 2)
In the Hartford Courant’s annual wish list for Hartford in its “Commentary” section, the column said the remake of the Bowles Park/Westbrook Village housing projects in the northwest part of the city represents a chance to give the University of Hartford a college-town feel. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 31)
Herman Todd, owner of Living Word Imprints, a printing shop in Hartford’s North End was contacted by the University’s Micro Business Incubator that pairs students from the Barney School of Business with local business owners to provide assistance. "Herman is very good at what he does—the printing business," said Margery Steinberg, the Barney School marketing professor who founded the program. "He didn't know much about marketing and merchandising. He had that wonderful storefront, but it didn't look inviting. A student worked to lay it out in a way that was user-friendly." (Hartford Courant, Dec. 20)
Ten former Uconn All-Americans were named "Huskies of Honor," as permanent panels on the wall were unveiled after the Uconn-Colorado State game. Some players—such as University of Hartford Women’s Basketball Coach Jen Rizzotti—were getting ready to play Santa for their young children. Rizzotti also shared her favorite memory of Christmas Eve at her grandparents' house. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 22 and 23)
Janet Peckinpaugh, who serves on the Hartford Art School board of corporators and on the board of directors for the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, retired from NBC 30 Connecticut News on Dec. 22, 2006. (NBC 30, Dec. 22)
Vin Baker, a former University basketball standout and NBA star, has proposed a 10-lot subdivision of his 30-acre property on Old Blue Hills Road at a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. Baker’s representatives, attorney and engineer were present and discussed their plan to subdivide his 30-acre property in 10 lots. The hearing was tabled to the next PZC meeting on Jan. 3. (Middletown Press, Dec. 24)
Tim Loughran, who attended the University of Hartford in the early 1980s, is now managing partner of cleanroom construction company AdvanceTEC in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The firm's 21 employees have built facilities across the U.S. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dec. 24)
A Boston Herald girls basketball preview noted that Reading High School’s Mary Silvia will be headed off to the University of Hartford in the fall to continue her basketball career. (Boston Herald, Dec. 23)
Other News
A group of Wesleyan University students has launched an online magazine that strives to promote activism among the college crowd. Like other progressive political journals, Incite Magazine provides a largely left-of-center take on the important issues of the day. But it has another goal as well: to foment activism and encourage involvement. (Hartford Courant, Jan. 2)
The University of Connecticut says it has missed out on millions of dollars in donations from Connecticut corporations for student scholarships, research and other purposes, all because of a ruling on a new state ethics provision. Designed to curb contracting abuses, the provision prohibits state agencies, including Uconn, from accepting gifts and donations from certain Connecticut corporations and lobbyists. The idea is to prevent them from using the gifts to buy access and influence. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 26)
Hugh Ogden, a 69-year-old Trinity College English professor and well-known poet, broke through the unusually thin ice and drowned while cross-country skiing in Maine. His death shocked his family and members of the college community. His children had been planning a surprise celebration later this year for Ogden's 70th birthday and his 40th anniversary of teaching at Trinity. (Hartford Courant, Jan. 2)
At a time when traditional media are fragmenting, the newspaper industry is under siege and many people get their nightly news from "The Daily Show," Middlesex Community College is launching a journalism program. The program's founder, John Shafer, acknowledged that his timing is "interesting," but he said he believes the need for good reporting and writing is more crucial than ever. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 27)
Colleges in Connecticut reported a sharp increase in nursing graduates this year—25 percent more than a year ago—but not enough to overcome a statewide shortage of registered nurses, experts say. A new report by the state Department of Higher Education said colleges in the state issued 1,076 registered nursing degrees during 2006, just shy of the number of annual job openings for registered nurses projected by the state Department of Labor. (Hartford Courant, Jan. 1)
Since the 1970s, women have surged into science and engineering classes in larger and larger numbers, yet studies show that women in science still routinely receive less research support than their male colleagues, and they have not reached the top academic ranks in numbers anything like their growing presence would suggest. (New York Times, Dec. 19)
Princeton University has joined a growing list of colleges that have deals to allow students to download music free and legally. Princeton announced the arrangement with Ruckus, a Virginia-based company that markets music solely to college students. Under the deal, Princeton students can put all the music they want on their computer hard drives through Ruckus' library of 1.5 million tracks. But it will cost students about $20 a semester to be able to put the tunes on their portable MP3 players. (Associated Press, Dec. 19)
The U.S. Department of Education is planning to propose limits early next year on how much universities can charge former students in collection fees if they default on government loans. Colleges routinely charge debtors collection fees between 33 percent and 50 percent of the original balance on loans or unpaid tuition. Some advocates for students, specialists on consumer debt, and university administrators called the fees at many colleges excessive. (Boston Globe, Dec. 20) .
University of Connecticut President Philip E. Austin, 64, is stepping down from the demanding job as CEO of the state's flagship university, effective next September. He recently reached his 10-year anniversary and the university was on an upswing after a decade of unprecedented transformation. After a sabbatical, he plans to return to Uconn as a professor, a path taken by his predecessor, former President Harry Hartley. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 21)
The University of Connecticut hasn't even started a national search for a new president, but faculty, students and civic leaders are weighing in, saying UConn needs a dynamic leader with a clear vision to raise the university to the next level academically. (Hartford Courant, Dec. 25)
From Stanford University on the West Coast to the Ivy League schools of the Northeast, U.S. universities are in the grip of a building boom that looks set to extend well into 2009. Reasons for the whirl of construction activity vary—from a surge in enrollment as children of the baby-boom generation enter college, to growing competition in China and other Asian regions for the world's top scientists. (Reuters, Dec. 21)
Upcoming
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 CT Business magazine.
