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Media Watch (March 14 - 21, 2005)
Posted 3/22/2005
"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 Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team’s preparation for its game against Rutgers in the first round of the NCAA tournament generated lots of interviews and stories about Coach Jen Rizzotti and her players. Stories about the game’s outcome were carried on news outlets around the country. (New York Times, March 21; MSNBC.com, March 20; Hartford Courant, March 21; Phillyburbs.com, March 19; Foster’s Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H., March 19; Norwich Bulletin, March 18; Hartford Courant, March 17; New England Cable News Network, March 16; Fox 61, March 16; WTIC-AM, March 16; Philadelphia Inquirer, March 15; Boston Globe, March 14)
Twenty-three Barney School of Business students, who are enrolled in Assistant Professor Dave Desplaces’ “Principles in Entrepreneurship” class, will be working with a dozen business owners in Vernon. The students will benefit from having on-the-job training in entrepreneurship and the business owners will receive free advice and assessments. WFSB-TV Channel 3 will be following a specific group of students and the Vernon business they are partnered with for a story on the project. (Journal-Inquirer, Manchester, March 14; Hartford Courant, March 11)
President Walter Harrison took part in a panel discussion on the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” regarding the NCAA’s efforts to make colleges and universities more accountable for the academic progress and graduation rates of their student-athletes. (PBS Television, March 14)
Dennis Nolan, who teaches illustration at the University of Hartford, was asked to illustrate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book, titled Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy, published this month by Hyperion Books for Children. When asked to work on the book, it turned out the illustrator was about to lead a painting workshop in Assisi, which was Saint Francis’s hometown. Kennedy is the son of Robert F. Kennedy, and a deeply devout Catholic. Hartford Courant reporter Pat Seremet is also interviewing Nolan for an upcoming “Java” column. (Boston Globe, March 15)
Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department, wrote an opinion article called “It’s the Return of the Gilded Age.” It compares “that late-19th century period dominated by robber barons’ and forgettable presidents: boasting astonishing, historically unprecedented wealth alongside the ugliest poverty and abuse of power” with the current climate in America. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 19)
Tom Condon’s column in the “Place” section of the Sunday Hartford Courant talked about the revitalization of four historic homes on Deerfield Avenue in Hartford’s Upper Albany neighborhood. In the story, he also talked about the efforts of Upper Albany Main Street, Inc. and the University to reinvigorate the Albany Avenue commercial district, and the potential of the proposed University of Hartford Performing Arts Center. (Hartford Courant, March 20)
President Walter Harrison, who is vice president of the Hartford Stage’s board of directors, was quoted in a Hartford Courant article about Governor Rell’s decision to have the state fund a comprehensive study of the theater and its needs. “It’s great that the governor has the confidence in us to provide the money that will help us study this further,” Harrison said. (Hartford Courant, March 16)
During the 2005 Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) Plenum, held recently in Washington, Matthew Silver, visiting professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, Central Connecticut State University, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, gave a presentation on promoting fair and balanced discussion on Israel on college campuses. At the same time that the JCPA plenum was taking place, the B’nai B’rith Hillel Forum on Public Policy was also being held. Students from the Hillels of Trinity College, the University of Connecticut at Storrs, the University of Hartford, and Yale University, attended the forum, which allows students to meet other Jewish students and to train to become activists on college campuses. (Connecticut Jewish Ledger, March 17)
University graduate Patrick Sheehan closed with a 67 and tied for fifth place in the Bay Hill Invitational golf tournament in Orlando, Fla. (Hartford Courant, March 21)
Other News
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association will work with Pfizer Global Research and Development in New London and the University of Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University, Fairfield University, Trinity College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the College of the Holy Cross, to create scholarships for students interested in careers in the pharmaceutical industry. (The Day, New London, March 9)
As the University of Connecticut fights a bill seeking a public audit of its private foundation, records show that the foundation’s travel and salary expenses have jumped sharply during the past decade. With the university’s endowment held by the foundation at nearly $300 million, some lawmakers are calling for increased financial disclosure because those assets include more than $54 million in public matching funds. (Hartford Courant, March 21)
Connecticut lawmakers have agreed to allow the Connecticut State University system to award doctoral degrees in education. The House of Representatives and Senate approved the bill, which now goes to the governor for her signature. The CSU system includes Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Connecticut State Universities. (Associated Press; Newsday, March 16)
Author and historian William Manchester left much of his archive to Wesleyan University, but the details of how the university will store it are still being worked out. Manchester’s books include “The Death of a President” and “Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War.” His collection of documents has been appraised at $550,000. (Hartford Courant, March 20)
Goodwin College recently received full accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Goodwin serves more than 1,000 students, and college officials recently presented plans to build a new campus on 400 acres of riverfront in East Hartford. (Hartford Courant, March 19)
After four years of studying degree-granting programs, Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University, concludes that curriculum for the education doctorate for principals and superintendents throughout the nation, the Ed.D, is “incoherent” and that the doctorate of philosophy in school leadership, the Ph.D, should be reserved for researchers. (Hartford Courant, March 15)
By a 218 to 185 vote, Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a motion expressing a “lack of confidence” in Harvard President Lawrence Summers’ leadership after his recent controversial comments about women in science. (Associated Press, March 17)
The job market for college graduates is rebounding after several sluggish years that forced many to flee to graduate schools or into jobs outside their chosen fields. Employers say they are planning to hire 13 percent more college grads this academic year than the previous year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ annual survey. (U.S. News & World Report, March 18)
The Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team’s preparation for its game against Rutgers in the first round of the NCAA tournament generated lots of interviews and stories about Coach Jen Rizzotti and her players. Stories about the game’s outcome were carried on news outlets around the country. (New York Times, March 21; MSNBC.com, March 20; Hartford Courant, March 21; Phillyburbs.com, March 19; Foster’s Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H., March 19; Norwich Bulletin, March 18; Hartford Courant, March 17; New England Cable News Network, March 16; Fox 61, March 16; WTIC-AM, March 16; Philadelphia Inquirer, March 15; Boston Globe, March 14)
Twenty-three Barney School of Business students, who are enrolled in Assistant Professor Dave Desplaces’ “Principles in Entrepreneurship” class, will be working with a dozen business owners in Vernon. The students will benefit from having on-the-job training in entrepreneurship and the business owners will receive free advice and assessments. WFSB-TV Channel 3 will be following a specific group of students and the Vernon business they are partnered with for a story on the project. (Journal-Inquirer, Manchester, March 14; Hartford Courant, March 11)
President Walter Harrison took part in a panel discussion on the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” regarding the NCAA’s efforts to make colleges and universities more accountable for the academic progress and graduation rates of their student-athletes. (PBS Television, March 14)
Dennis Nolan, who teaches illustration at the University of Hartford, was asked to illustrate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book, titled Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy, published this month by Hyperion Books for Children. When asked to work on the book, it turned out the illustrator was about to lead a painting workshop in Assisi, which was Saint Francis’s hometown. Kennedy is the son of Robert F. Kennedy, and a deeply devout Catholic. Hartford Courant reporter Pat Seremet is also interviewing Nolan for an upcoming “Java” column. (Boston Globe, March 15)
Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department, wrote an opinion article called “It’s the Return of the Gilded Age.” It compares “that late-19th century period dominated by robber barons’ and forgettable presidents: boasting astonishing, historically unprecedented wealth alongside the ugliest poverty and abuse of power” with the current climate in America. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 19)
Tom Condon’s column in the “Place” section of the Sunday Hartford Courant talked about the revitalization of four historic homes on Deerfield Avenue in Hartford’s Upper Albany neighborhood. In the story, he also talked about the efforts of Upper Albany Main Street, Inc. and the University to reinvigorate the Albany Avenue commercial district, and the potential of the proposed University of Hartford Performing Arts Center. (Hartford Courant, March 20)
President Walter Harrison, who is vice president of the Hartford Stage’s board of directors, was quoted in a Hartford Courant article about Governor Rell’s decision to have the state fund a comprehensive study of the theater and its needs. “It’s great that the governor has the confidence in us to provide the money that will help us study this further,” Harrison said. (Hartford Courant, March 16)
During the 2005 Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) Plenum, held recently in Washington, Matthew Silver, visiting professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, Central Connecticut State University, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, gave a presentation on promoting fair and balanced discussion on Israel on college campuses. At the same time that the JCPA plenum was taking place, the B’nai B’rith Hillel Forum on Public Policy was also being held. Students from the Hillels of Trinity College, the University of Connecticut at Storrs, the University of Hartford, and Yale University, attended the forum, which allows students to meet other Jewish students and to train to become activists on college campuses. (Connecticut Jewish Ledger, March 17)
University graduate Patrick Sheehan closed with a 67 and tied for fifth place in the Bay Hill Invitational golf tournament in Orlando, Fla. (Hartford Courant, March 21)
Other News
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association will work with Pfizer Global Research and Development in New London and the University of Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University, Fairfield University, Trinity College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the College of the Holy Cross, to create scholarships for students interested in careers in the pharmaceutical industry. (The Day, New London, March 9)
As the University of Connecticut fights a bill seeking a public audit of its private foundation, records show that the foundation’s travel and salary expenses have jumped sharply during the past decade. With the university’s endowment held by the foundation at nearly $300 million, some lawmakers are calling for increased financial disclosure because those assets include more than $54 million in public matching funds. (Hartford Courant, March 21)
Connecticut lawmakers have agreed to allow the Connecticut State University system to award doctoral degrees in education. The House of Representatives and Senate approved the bill, which now goes to the governor for her signature. The CSU system includes Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Connecticut State Universities. (Associated Press; Newsday, March 16)
Author and historian William Manchester left much of his archive to Wesleyan University, but the details of how the university will store it are still being worked out. Manchester’s books include “The Death of a President” and “Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War.” His collection of documents has been appraised at $550,000. (Hartford Courant, March 20)
Goodwin College recently received full accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Goodwin serves more than 1,000 students, and college officials recently presented plans to build a new campus on 400 acres of riverfront in East Hartford. (Hartford Courant, March 19)
After four years of studying degree-granting programs, Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University, concludes that curriculum for the education doctorate for principals and superintendents throughout the nation, the Ed.D, is “incoherent” and that the doctorate of philosophy in school leadership, the Ph.D, should be reserved for researchers. (Hartford Courant, March 15)
By a 218 to 185 vote, Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a motion expressing a “lack of confidence” in Harvard President Lawrence Summers’ leadership after his recent controversial comments about women in science. (Associated Press, March 17)
The job market for college graduates is rebounding after several sluggish years that forced many to flee to graduate schools or into jobs outside their chosen fields. Employers say they are planning to hire 13 percent more college grads this academic year than the previous year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ annual survey. (U.S. News & World Report, March 18)
