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Media Watch (Oct. 1-8, 2007)
Posted 10/9/2007
"Media Watch" is a roundup 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.
Alan Hadad, associate vice president and dean of University magnet schools, had an opinion article — calling for admission standards for magnet high schools — published in the Hartford Courant. Read Hadad’s op-ed article. In a separate editorial about Hartford Public Schools Superintendent Stephen Adamowski’s comments on school desegregation, the Courant noted that “Hadad…persuasively argues that admission requirements instead of admission lotteries would draw more bright suburban kids to Hartford.” (Hartford Courant, Oct. 5 and Oct. 8)
Robert Lang, professor of cinema in the College of Arts and Sciences, who is writing a book on Tunisian cinema, was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor story about the work of female filmmakers in Tunisia. “These women are extremely political in their agendas,” he told the newspaper, adding that this makes it very difficult to get their films shown in their native land. Read the article in the Monitor. (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 4)
University President Walter Harrison was named one of the "10 Most Powerful People in College Sports" by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle article called Harrison “The Reformer” and noted that he “led the powerful NCAA committee that created the strict academic standards, which could have a lasting impact on the game.” (Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 8; WTIC-AM, Oct. 4)
President Harrison was quoted in a number of stories about the NCAA’s release of figures tracking the graduation rates at 318 Division I colleges and universities for athletes who enrolled from 1997-2000. “Thousands of coaches, athletic administrators and student athletes are understanding the importance of getting an education,” said Harrison, who is chairman of the NCAA academic performance committee. “Our role is to provide the appropriate motivation when needed to improve, and the important measurements to make sure we're all working toward the same goal. We've got a ways to go, especially in those three particular sports, but we seem to be making good steps.” (ESPN.com, Oct. 3; Cleveland Plain Dealer, Oct. 4)
Susan Coleman, the Ansley Professor of Finance in the Barney School of Business, was appointed by Gov. Jodi Rell to an eight-member panel of leading economists from throughout the state to advise her on key issues affecting the Connecticut economy. (Waterbury Republican-American, Oct. 3; Hartford Courant, Oct. 4; Newsday, Oct. 5)
The Hartford Business Journal did a feature story about people who are deciding that instead of retiring, they want to start their own businesses, and the article profiled two graduates of the University’s Entrepreneurial Center program. The article also included comments from Jean Blake-Jackson, director of the Entrepreneurial Center. (Hartford Business Journal, Oct. 1)
Michael Crosbie, chair of the Department of Architecture in the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, had an opinion article published in the “Place” section of the Sunday Hartford Courant “Commentary” section. Crosbie wrote about his recent visit to a public garden in Paris and how different the experience was compared to public gardens in America. “There is a sense [there] of sharing a place in the city with others, an understanding of how you should behave in such a space and not infringe on another person's enjoyment of it,” he wrote. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 7)
Otto Wahl, director of the University’s Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology (GIPP), and Amy Lax of the Queens/Nassau chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), have received two grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. The grants will fund a two-year project that will examine the effectiveness of educational materials designed to teach young people about mental illness and reduce the stigma associated with it. (eMaxHealth.com, Oct. 1)
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science in Hillyer College, was interviewed by Fox 61 for a story on the impasse between Gov. Jodi Rell and the Democrats in the State Legislature over state bonding. (Fox 61, Oct. 3)
The weekly “Education Briefs” column in the Hartford Courant featured a write-up of the Hartford Scholars fundraising dinner. It noted that Jorin Grori, a native of Albania who now lives in Hartford, has been named the Mayor's Scholar Award winner by Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez. Grori, who attended Bulkeley High School and is now majoring in electrical engineering at the University of Hartford, also works at Northeast Utilities. The write-up also noted that about 400 students have taken part in this half-tuition scholarship program since it began in 1990. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 2)
“Huge Apple logo formed out of rocks in river at University of Hartford” was the headline, with accompanying photo, on the Mac Daily News website. University student Alex Goldman emailed Mac Daily News to say that “at the University of Hartford, we have a tradition where club members and other students spell out or form rocks into words or shapes that can be seen from the bridge [over the Hog River]. This morning I noticed something that made me 'Think Different.' Apparently, the Apple Inc. logo was laid out in the rocks on the side of the bridge.” (Mac Daily News.com, Oct. 2)
Annie Kerins of Worcester, who graduated from The Hartt School with a degree in music theatre, was profiled in advance of her performance in a new musical revue in Boston titled “American Twistory.” (Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Oct. 5)
Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery '97, a graduate of the McLean Institute of Jazz at The Hartt School, was the subject of a major question-and answer story in All About Jazz, a Philadelphia-based publication. Escoffery talks about his time at The Hartt School, playing in an ensemble with Jimmy Greene '97 and learning from the late Jackie McLean and faculty members Steve Davis and Nat Reeves. (All About Jazz, Oct. 1)
University President Walter Harrison was a guest on the Colin McEnroe Show on WTIC-AM, and he discussed Major League Baseball’s dramatic pennant races this season and the outlook for the playoffs. (WTIC-AM, Oct. 4)
Other News
The African National Congress gave the University of Connecticut an oral history that documents the struggles of leaders who fought apartheid in South Africa. UConn was given the transcripts after forming a partnership with the African National Congress to produce the oral history project. The collection will be available to scholars, researchers, students, and the public. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 5)
High school lore has it that junior year is the hardest and colleges focus on those grades and activities, but educational consultants and college admissions officers say that doesn’t mean your work is finished once you get to senior year. Otherwise, students send colleges the message: “I did what I had to do, but I don’t do one step beyond that.” (Hartford Courant,Oct. 5)
Banks and other lenders who issue federal student loans have begun to scale back a host of borrower discounts after a new law took effect that cuts federal payments to the lending institutions. In a push by politicians to make college more affordable, the new law, known as the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007, will cut payments to lenders for issuing the federal loans by $21 billion over five years. (Wall Street Journal, Oct. 4)
Fraternity leaders across the country are looking to reinvent and restore the ideals of going Greek after decades of wrestling with the stigma and the legal liabilities created by alcohol abuse, cheating, poor grades, hazing and other problems. Programs such as Beta Theta Pi’s “Men of Principle,” Lambda Chi Alpha’s “True Brother Initiative,” and the Sigma Phi Epsilon “Balanced Man” effort seek a return to the roots of campus Greek life. Organizers talk of honor, virtue, scholarship, civic engagement and other core values. (NPR, Oct 4)
Robert L. Birmingham, a colorful University of Connecticut law professor, agreed to take a leave of absence for the rest of the semester for showing a film clip of a thong-clad woman dancing suggestively and for raising provocative questions about slavery during a class. The situation pits academic freedom against efforts to foster an inclusive, welcoming campus. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 4)
Many colleges and universities are cracking down on underage drinking by adding more classes on Friday and requiring students to take alcohol abuse classes online. In addition, the U.S. Surgeon General asked colleges to end alcohol advertising in campus newspapers, provide more alcohol-free late-night events, and shift more classes to Friday to “shorten the elongated weekend” that has students binge drinking by Thursday night. (Stateline.org, Oct. 4)
Colleges and universities throughout the country have begun offering career-counseling services not just to recent graduates but to thousands of alumni. The expanded career services are part of a broader effort to keep alumni engaged in the college community—something that makes them more likely to be financial supporters down the road. (Associated Press, Oct. 3)
More than 40 students from Yale Law School gathered to protest the actions of the U.S. military, represented inside a Marriott hotel by a few recruiters. Their presence —the first time in years that the military was allowed into the employer interview program for law school students—marked the end of one long skirmish with Yale which had barred the recuriters based on the military's prohibition against its members being openly gay. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 2)
Some colleges, in an effort to ward off perceptions that they've become unaffordable to even high-income families, are bolstering their financial aid packages by offering grants to students whose parents earn as much as $180,000 a year. School officials said they are reaching out to families caught in the middle: the families too wealthy to be eligible for federal grants, but not so wealthy as to be able to absorb the $50,000 a year for college. (Boston Globe, Oct. 2)
Colorado State University journalism students will hold a disciplinary hearing to determine if the school’s newspaper editor violated a CSU student-media code of ethics that says profane and vulgar words aren’t acceptable for opinion writing. J. David McSwane’s Sept. 21 editorial—“Taser this. (Expletive) Bush” was an editorial attacking President Bush. (Denver Post, Oct. 2)
Upcoming
President Walter Harrison will again be a guest on the Colin McEnroe Show on WTIC-AM on Thursday afternoon (Oct. 11) to talk about the results of the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs and look ahead to the next round.
Alan Hadad, associate vice president and dean of University magnet schools, had an opinion article — calling for admission standards for magnet high schools — published in the Hartford Courant. Read Hadad’s op-ed article. In a separate editorial about Hartford Public Schools Superintendent Stephen Adamowski’s comments on school desegregation, the Courant noted that “Hadad…persuasively argues that admission requirements instead of admission lotteries would draw more bright suburban kids to Hartford.” (Hartford Courant, Oct. 5 and Oct. 8)
Robert Lang, professor of cinema in the College of Arts and Sciences, who is writing a book on Tunisian cinema, was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor story about the work of female filmmakers in Tunisia. “These women are extremely political in their agendas,” he told the newspaper, adding that this makes it very difficult to get their films shown in their native land. Read the article in the Monitor. (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 4)
University President Walter Harrison was named one of the "10 Most Powerful People in College Sports" by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle article called Harrison “The Reformer” and noted that he “led the powerful NCAA committee that created the strict academic standards, which could have a lasting impact on the game.” (Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 8; WTIC-AM, Oct. 4)
President Harrison was quoted in a number of stories about the NCAA’s release of figures tracking the graduation rates at 318 Division I colleges and universities for athletes who enrolled from 1997-2000. “Thousands of coaches, athletic administrators and student athletes are understanding the importance of getting an education,” said Harrison, who is chairman of the NCAA academic performance committee. “Our role is to provide the appropriate motivation when needed to improve, and the important measurements to make sure we're all working toward the same goal. We've got a ways to go, especially in those three particular sports, but we seem to be making good steps.” (ESPN.com, Oct. 3; Cleveland Plain Dealer, Oct. 4)
Susan Coleman, the Ansley Professor of Finance in the Barney School of Business, was appointed by Gov. Jodi Rell to an eight-member panel of leading economists from throughout the state to advise her on key issues affecting the Connecticut economy. (Waterbury Republican-American, Oct. 3; Hartford Courant, Oct. 4; Newsday, Oct. 5)
The Hartford Business Journal did a feature story about people who are deciding that instead of retiring, they want to start their own businesses, and the article profiled two graduates of the University’s Entrepreneurial Center program. The article also included comments from Jean Blake-Jackson, director of the Entrepreneurial Center. (Hartford Business Journal, Oct. 1)
Michael Crosbie, chair of the Department of Architecture in the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, had an opinion article published in the “Place” section of the Sunday Hartford Courant “Commentary” section. Crosbie wrote about his recent visit to a public garden in Paris and how different the experience was compared to public gardens in America. “There is a sense [there] of sharing a place in the city with others, an understanding of how you should behave in such a space and not infringe on another person's enjoyment of it,” he wrote. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 7)
Otto Wahl, director of the University’s Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology (GIPP), and Amy Lax of the Queens/Nassau chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), have received two grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. The grants will fund a two-year project that will examine the effectiveness of educational materials designed to teach young people about mental illness and reduce the stigma associated with it. (eMaxHealth.com, Oct. 1)
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science in Hillyer College, was interviewed by Fox 61 for a story on the impasse between Gov. Jodi Rell and the Democrats in the State Legislature over state bonding. (Fox 61, Oct. 3)
The weekly “Education Briefs” column in the Hartford Courant featured a write-up of the Hartford Scholars fundraising dinner. It noted that Jorin Grori, a native of Albania who now lives in Hartford, has been named the Mayor's Scholar Award winner by Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez. Grori, who attended Bulkeley High School and is now majoring in electrical engineering at the University of Hartford, also works at Northeast Utilities. The write-up also noted that about 400 students have taken part in this half-tuition scholarship program since it began in 1990. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 2)
“Huge Apple logo formed out of rocks in river at University of Hartford” was the headline, with accompanying photo, on the Mac Daily News website. University student Alex Goldman emailed Mac Daily News to say that “at the University of Hartford, we have a tradition where club members and other students spell out or form rocks into words or shapes that can be seen from the bridge [over the Hog River]. This morning I noticed something that made me 'Think Different.' Apparently, the Apple Inc. logo was laid out in the rocks on the side of the bridge.” (Mac Daily News.com, Oct. 2)
Annie Kerins of Worcester, who graduated from The Hartt School with a degree in music theatre, was profiled in advance of her performance in a new musical revue in Boston titled “American Twistory.” (Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Oct. 5)
Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery '97, a graduate of the McLean Institute of Jazz at The Hartt School, was the subject of a major question-and answer story in All About Jazz, a Philadelphia-based publication. Escoffery talks about his time at The Hartt School, playing in an ensemble with Jimmy Greene '97 and learning from the late Jackie McLean and faculty members Steve Davis and Nat Reeves. (All About Jazz, Oct. 1)
University President Walter Harrison was a guest on the Colin McEnroe Show on WTIC-AM, and he discussed Major League Baseball’s dramatic pennant races this season and the outlook for the playoffs. (WTIC-AM, Oct. 4)
Other News
The African National Congress gave the University of Connecticut an oral history that documents the struggles of leaders who fought apartheid in South Africa. UConn was given the transcripts after forming a partnership with the African National Congress to produce the oral history project. The collection will be available to scholars, researchers, students, and the public. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 5)
High school lore has it that junior year is the hardest and colleges focus on those grades and activities, but educational consultants and college admissions officers say that doesn’t mean your work is finished once you get to senior year. Otherwise, students send colleges the message: “I did what I had to do, but I don’t do one step beyond that.” (Hartford Courant,Oct. 5)
Banks and other lenders who issue federal student loans have begun to scale back a host of borrower discounts after a new law took effect that cuts federal payments to the lending institutions. In a push by politicians to make college more affordable, the new law, known as the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007, will cut payments to lenders for issuing the federal loans by $21 billion over five years. (Wall Street Journal, Oct. 4)
Fraternity leaders across the country are looking to reinvent and restore the ideals of going Greek after decades of wrestling with the stigma and the legal liabilities created by alcohol abuse, cheating, poor grades, hazing and other problems. Programs such as Beta Theta Pi’s “Men of Principle,” Lambda Chi Alpha’s “True Brother Initiative,” and the Sigma Phi Epsilon “Balanced Man” effort seek a return to the roots of campus Greek life. Organizers talk of honor, virtue, scholarship, civic engagement and other core values. (NPR, Oct 4)
Robert L. Birmingham, a colorful University of Connecticut law professor, agreed to take a leave of absence for the rest of the semester for showing a film clip of a thong-clad woman dancing suggestively and for raising provocative questions about slavery during a class. The situation pits academic freedom against efforts to foster an inclusive, welcoming campus. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 4)
Many colleges and universities are cracking down on underage drinking by adding more classes on Friday and requiring students to take alcohol abuse classes online. In addition, the U.S. Surgeon General asked colleges to end alcohol advertising in campus newspapers, provide more alcohol-free late-night events, and shift more classes to Friday to “shorten the elongated weekend” that has students binge drinking by Thursday night. (Stateline.org, Oct. 4)
Colleges and universities throughout the country have begun offering career-counseling services not just to recent graduates but to thousands of alumni. The expanded career services are part of a broader effort to keep alumni engaged in the college community—something that makes them more likely to be financial supporters down the road. (Associated Press, Oct. 3)
More than 40 students from Yale Law School gathered to protest the actions of the U.S. military, represented inside a Marriott hotel by a few recruiters. Their presence —the first time in years that the military was allowed into the employer interview program for law school students—marked the end of one long skirmish with Yale which had barred the recuriters based on the military's prohibition against its members being openly gay. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 2)
Some colleges, in an effort to ward off perceptions that they've become unaffordable to even high-income families, are bolstering their financial aid packages by offering grants to students whose parents earn as much as $180,000 a year. School officials said they are reaching out to families caught in the middle: the families too wealthy to be eligible for federal grants, but not so wealthy as to be able to absorb the $50,000 a year for college. (Boston Globe, Oct. 2)
Colorado State University journalism students will hold a disciplinary hearing to determine if the school’s newspaper editor violated a CSU student-media code of ethics that says profane and vulgar words aren’t acceptable for opinion writing. J. David McSwane’s Sept. 21 editorial—“Taser this. (Expletive) Bush” was an editorial attacking President Bush. (Denver Post, Oct. 2)
Upcoming
President Walter Harrison will again be a guest on the Colin McEnroe Show on WTIC-AM on Thursday afternoon (Oct. 11) to talk about the results of the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs and look ahead to the next round.
