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Media Watch (Feb. 12 – 19, 2007)
Posted 2/20/2007
"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.
“You’re Aging Well, UofH” was the headline of an editorial in the Feb. 16 issue of the Hartford Courant that celebrated the University’s 50th anniversary. “The University of Hartford turns 50 this month in its best shape ever,” noted the editorial, which praised the University’s commitment to the City of Hartford. Read the Courant editorial.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 16)
University President Walter Harrison was a guest on the “Brad Davis Show” on WDRC-AM radio. He discussed the University’s 50th anniversary and highlighted current and future projects, including the completion of the Renée Samuels Center at the Hartford Art School and the upcoming groundbreaking for the new University of Hartford Performing Arts Center at the corner of Westbourne Parkway and Albany Ave. President Harrison was also interviewed by WTIC-AM radio about the University’s 50th anniversary, and clips from that interview were included in newscasts throughout the weekend.
(WDRC-AM, Feb. 19; WTIC-AM, Feb. 18)
The installation of a banner marking the University’s 50th Anniversary on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford was highlighted in the "Covering Connecticut" segment of the evening news broadcast on Feb. 9 on NBC 30.
(NBC 30, Feb. 9)
Architect Michael J. Crosbie, chairman of the Department of Architecture at the University of Hartford and a member of the Hartford Courant’s “Place” section board of contributors, wrote an opinion article about the Global Village Shelter installation at the Yale Divinity School on Prospect Street in New Haven. The shelters are a call to conscience and a challenge to conventional notions of religious buildings.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 18)
Enoch Lenge, a senior majoring in entrepreneurial studies at the Barney School of Business, was one of eight finalists selected to present their business plans at the second annual Cleantech Innovation Challenge, to be held March 1 and 2 in Denver, and hosted by the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. Other finalists include teams from Ohio State University; Babson College; Chulalongkor University (Bangkok, Thailand); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of Michigan; and Stanford University.
(Boulder Press, Feb. 14)
Mary Jane Williams, interim chair of the Department of Nursing in the University’s College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions, was a guest, along with Suzanne Gordon, author of the book Nursing Against All Odds, on National Public Radio’s “Here and Now” show discussing the nursing shortage in the United States. They talked about how the U.S. is expected to be short more than 800, 000 nurses when some 80 million baby boomers retire over the next decade. Nurses and hospitals are hoping the new Congress will respond to the shortage with more funding for nursing programs.
(National Public Radio, Jan. 18)
Michael Robinson, assistant professor of history in Hillyer College, had his book, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture, reviewed in The Times of London Literary Supplement. “Robinson has a real thesis, and he presents it with admirable clarity and a firm understanding of its shadings and nuances,” said reviewer Jonathan Dore. The book was also favorably reviewed by the Arctic Book Review.
(Times of London, Feb. 2)
The Steve Davis Quintet, led by renowned trombonist Steve Davis, a longtime faculty member at The Hartt School’s McLean Institute of Jazz, will be the opening performers in the Firehouse 12 Spring Jazz Series in New Haven. The quintet also includes Hartt alums Mike DiRubbo on alto saxophone, Dezron Douglas on bass, and Eric McPherson on drums.
(All About Jazz.com, Feb. 16)
Rob Maffucci, a University alum and an adjunct faculty member, was photographed and featured in the "Players" section of the February issue of Hartford Magazine. Maffucci, who is the owner of Vito’s by the Park in downtown Hartford, was included in a collection of people who are “Romantic Gift Providers.”
(Hartford Magazine, February '06 issue)
Hartford Hawks men’s basketball coach Dan Leibovitz was profiled in, and photographed for the cover of the Feb. 16 issue of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. The article highlighted Coach Leibovitz’s background, growing up in the Philadelphia area, and his transition to the Hartford area and becoming a head coach at the University of Hartford.
(Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Feb. 16)
Other News
A bill that would allow undocumented immigrants in Connecticut to pay in-state tuition to public colleges and universities received the endorsement of the state university chancellor, while drawing concerns from some legislators during a public hearing on Feb. 13. The Connecticut bill, which will not come to a vote until later in the legislative session, requires students to have attended two years of high school in state and to have graduated from an in-state school. To get in-state tuition, those students must file an affidavit stating they have applied for legal immigration status or will apply if they become eligible.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 14)
A Trinity College fraternity member was stabbed in the cheek and another student was threatened with a gun after three young men crashed a party at the Sigma Nu fraternity house on Allen Place, near the Trinity campus, on Feb. 18. The three men were not students. The assault occurred after they were asked to leave the property.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 19)
The University of Connecticut has hired a consulting firm to address pedestrian traffic safety issues along North Eagleville Road, where freshman Carlee Wines was struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run accident on Jan. 20. Wines, who died of her injuries two days later, was one of three pedestrians who have been struck by vehicles near the university over a three-week period. The latest accident occurred on Route 195 on Feb. 10.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
James Canivan of Glastonbury has made a significant gift to support poetry initiatives at St. Joseph College in memory of his wife, Ann Clark Canivan, who died in May 2003. She was an educator and poet who was a member of St. Joseph’s Class of 1958. She took part in numerous poetry slams in Hartford and the region and competed in a national poetry slam in 2000. The fund, in Ann Clark Canivan’s name, will be used to develop curriculum, purchase materials, and sponsor activities at the college that will highlight poetry as a literary form.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
Anita Gliniecki, acting president of Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, has been selected to take the job on a permanent basis. She succeeds Janis M. Hadley, who retired in July 2006. Gliniecki has been serving as acting president since that time. She joined Housatonic in 2003 as Dean of Academic Services.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
After years of bouncing around various locations at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History finally has its own home. Construction of the new museum, inside a building once used to store and sell apples when orchards occupied the land behind it, will be completed this month; and the museum will open on April 29.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
A report by the American Council on Education says the nation’s college and university presidents are holding their jobs longer than at any time since the mid-1980s. Though considerable turnover continues, the average sitting president has served 8.5 years, up from 6.6 years in 2001 and 6.3 years in 1986, when the American Council on Education first conducted its survey, the largest of its kind. The trend has pushed the average age of a sitting president to just shy of 60, raising the possibility of a significant exodus during the coming decade, the report’s authors say.
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 12)
Duke University announced a $30 million investment in a new program called “DukeEngage,” which will support students who take on service projects whether they are around the corner or around the globe. The money—$15 million each from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment—will be invested in a fund with the earnings used to support the program.
(Charlotte News Observer, Feb. 14)
Upcoming
Jilda Aliotta, chair of the politics and government department in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed by David Lightman, the Hartford Courant’s Washington, D.C. bureau chief, in connection with a series of stories he is doing about the debate in Congress over U.S. foreign policy in Iraq and Iran.
“You’re Aging Well, UofH” was the headline of an editorial in the Feb. 16 issue of the Hartford Courant that celebrated the University’s 50th anniversary. “The University of Hartford turns 50 this month in its best shape ever,” noted the editorial, which praised the University’s commitment to the City of Hartford. Read the Courant editorial.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 16)
University President Walter Harrison was a guest on the “Brad Davis Show” on WDRC-AM radio. He discussed the University’s 50th anniversary and highlighted current and future projects, including the completion of the Renée Samuels Center at the Hartford Art School and the upcoming groundbreaking for the new University of Hartford Performing Arts Center at the corner of Westbourne Parkway and Albany Ave. President Harrison was also interviewed by WTIC-AM radio about the University’s 50th anniversary, and clips from that interview were included in newscasts throughout the weekend.
(WDRC-AM, Feb. 19; WTIC-AM, Feb. 18)
The installation of a banner marking the University’s 50th Anniversary on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford was highlighted in the "Covering Connecticut" segment of the evening news broadcast on Feb. 9 on NBC 30.
(NBC 30, Feb. 9)
Architect Michael J. Crosbie, chairman of the Department of Architecture at the University of Hartford and a member of the Hartford Courant’s “Place” section board of contributors, wrote an opinion article about the Global Village Shelter installation at the Yale Divinity School on Prospect Street in New Haven. The shelters are a call to conscience and a challenge to conventional notions of religious buildings.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 18)
Enoch Lenge, a senior majoring in entrepreneurial studies at the Barney School of Business, was one of eight finalists selected to present their business plans at the second annual Cleantech Innovation Challenge, to be held March 1 and 2 in Denver, and hosted by the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. Other finalists include teams from Ohio State University; Babson College; Chulalongkor University (Bangkok, Thailand); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of Michigan; and Stanford University.
(Boulder Press, Feb. 14)
Mary Jane Williams, interim chair of the Department of Nursing in the University’s College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions, was a guest, along with Suzanne Gordon, author of the book Nursing Against All Odds, on National Public Radio’s “Here and Now” show discussing the nursing shortage in the United States. They talked about how the U.S. is expected to be short more than 800, 000 nurses when some 80 million baby boomers retire over the next decade. Nurses and hospitals are hoping the new Congress will respond to the shortage with more funding for nursing programs.
(National Public Radio, Jan. 18)
Michael Robinson, assistant professor of history in Hillyer College, had his book, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture, reviewed in The Times of London Literary Supplement. “Robinson has a real thesis, and he presents it with admirable clarity and a firm understanding of its shadings and nuances,” said reviewer Jonathan Dore. The book was also favorably reviewed by the Arctic Book Review.
(Times of London, Feb. 2)
The Steve Davis Quintet, led by renowned trombonist Steve Davis, a longtime faculty member at The Hartt School’s McLean Institute of Jazz, will be the opening performers in the Firehouse 12 Spring Jazz Series in New Haven. The quintet also includes Hartt alums Mike DiRubbo on alto saxophone, Dezron Douglas on bass, and Eric McPherson on drums.
(All About Jazz.com, Feb. 16)
Rob Maffucci, a University alum and an adjunct faculty member, was photographed and featured in the "Players" section of the February issue of Hartford Magazine. Maffucci, who is the owner of Vito’s by the Park in downtown Hartford, was included in a collection of people who are “Romantic Gift Providers.”
(Hartford Magazine, February '06 issue)
Hartford Hawks men’s basketball coach Dan Leibovitz was profiled in, and photographed for the cover of the Feb. 16 issue of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. The article highlighted Coach Leibovitz’s background, growing up in the Philadelphia area, and his transition to the Hartford area and becoming a head coach at the University of Hartford.
(Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Feb. 16)
Other News
A bill that would allow undocumented immigrants in Connecticut to pay in-state tuition to public colleges and universities received the endorsement of the state university chancellor, while drawing concerns from some legislators during a public hearing on Feb. 13. The Connecticut bill, which will not come to a vote until later in the legislative session, requires students to have attended two years of high school in state and to have graduated from an in-state school. To get in-state tuition, those students must file an affidavit stating they have applied for legal immigration status or will apply if they become eligible.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 14)
A Trinity College fraternity member was stabbed in the cheek and another student was threatened with a gun after three young men crashed a party at the Sigma Nu fraternity house on Allen Place, near the Trinity campus, on Feb. 18. The three men were not students. The assault occurred after they were asked to leave the property.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 19)
The University of Connecticut has hired a consulting firm to address pedestrian traffic safety issues along North Eagleville Road, where freshman Carlee Wines was struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run accident on Jan. 20. Wines, who died of her injuries two days later, was one of three pedestrians who have been struck by vehicles near the university over a three-week period. The latest accident occurred on Route 195 on Feb. 10.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
James Canivan of Glastonbury has made a significant gift to support poetry initiatives at St. Joseph College in memory of his wife, Ann Clark Canivan, who died in May 2003. She was an educator and poet who was a member of St. Joseph’s Class of 1958. She took part in numerous poetry slams in Hartford and the region and competed in a national poetry slam in 2000. The fund, in Ann Clark Canivan’s name, will be used to develop curriculum, purchase materials, and sponsor activities at the college that will highlight poetry as a literary form.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
Anita Gliniecki, acting president of Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, has been selected to take the job on a permanent basis. She succeeds Janis M. Hadley, who retired in July 2006. Gliniecki has been serving as acting president since that time. She joined Housatonic in 2003 as Dean of Academic Services.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
After years of bouncing around various locations at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History finally has its own home. Construction of the new museum, inside a building once used to store and sell apples when orchards occupied the land behind it, will be completed this month; and the museum will open on April 29.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 13)
A report by the American Council on Education says the nation’s college and university presidents are holding their jobs longer than at any time since the mid-1980s. Though considerable turnover continues, the average sitting president has served 8.5 years, up from 6.6 years in 2001 and 6.3 years in 1986, when the American Council on Education first conducted its survey, the largest of its kind. The trend has pushed the average age of a sitting president to just shy of 60, raising the possibility of a significant exodus during the coming decade, the report’s authors say.
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 12)
Duke University announced a $30 million investment in a new program called “DukeEngage,” which will support students who take on service projects whether they are around the corner or around the globe. The money—$15 million each from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment—will be invested in a fund with the earnings used to support the program.
(Charlotte News Observer, Feb. 14)
Upcoming
Jilda Aliotta, chair of the politics and government department in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed by David Lightman, the Hartford Courant’s Washington, D.C. bureau chief, in connection with a series of stories he is doing about the debate in Congress over U.S. foreign policy in Iraq and Iran.
