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Media Watch (Jan. 7 – 21, 2008)
Posted 1/22/2008
"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.
The University of Hartford was awarded a $1.3 million grant by the Afghanistan Ministry of Higher Education, funded by the World Bank, to train faculty members from Herat University in Afghanistan and help them earn graduate degrees in engineering. Saleh Keshawarz, an associate professor of engineering at CETA, was interviewed by WTIC Radio about the grant, which also received coverage in the international press.
(HartfordBusiness.com, Jan. 9; WTIC-AM, Jan. 10; International News Network, Jan. 13; South Asian Journal, Jan. 14; Hartford Courant, Jan. 22)
Craig Dolder, a member of the University’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, was interviewed about the group’s plans to travel to India and install a solar-powered pump for a well in a small village and thereby provide the villagers with access to clean drinking water. “The village we’re going to only gets two hours of power a day and only has one real well for the village, which is about two kilometers outside the town,” said Dolder. “As a result, most of the women and girls spend much of their day, up to five hours, going back and forth carrying jugs of water back into the village for their families.”
(The Republican, Jan. 9)
An error by a mail house subcontractor resulted in acceptance letters being mailed to about 2,000 applicants to the University who instead should have gotten letters reminding them that their applications were incomplete.
(NBC 30, Jan. 17; Fox 61, Jan. 18; WTNH-TV Channel 8, Jan. 18; Hartford Courant, Jan. 19; WFSB-TV Channel 3, Jan. 19; Newsday, Jan. 20; Inside Higher Ed.com, Jan. 21)
Michael Crosbie, chair of the Department of Architecture in the University’s College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) , had an opinion piece published in the “Place” section of the Hartford Courant.The piece highlighted the newly renovated Hartford Public Library and all it has to offer to the Hartford community.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 20)
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science in Hillyer College, did several media interviews offering his analysis of the results of the New Hampshire presidential primary and the outlook for the 2008 presidential race going forward.
(Fox 61, Jan. 8; WDRC-AM, Jan. 9)
Mark Blackwell, associate professor and chair of the English Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently had a collection of essays that he edited, titled “The Secret Life of Things,” receive a half-page review in the Times Literary Supplement, the culture arm of The Times of London. (The Times of London, Jan. 11)
The "PostDec: Beyond Pattern and Decoration" exhibition that was on display in Joseloff Gallery from Nov. 9 through Dec. 23, 2007, was highlighted in a story on ArtNet.com about the Pattern and Decoration Movement.
(ArtNet.com, Jan. 10)
The Construction Institute and its executive director, Bill Cianci, were the subject of a two-page article in Voice magazine, a publication of the Construction Users Round Table (CURT), a national organization of construction and engineering executives representing major corporations that are among the largest consumers in the construction industry. Photographs of the University were included with the article.
(Voice magazine, January 2008 issue)
Steve Larson, chair of chamber music at The Hartt School, is a viola performer with the Avery Ensemble, which was scheduled to open the Classical Concert Series for 2008 at Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, Conn.
(Voices, Jan. 8)
Jazz saxophonist Houston Person gave a concert at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain to a near capacity crowd. In a review of the show by the Hartford Courant, Person, who studied at The Hartt School, recalled his early days of performing to a small crowd in the same town, and said it feels like a homecoming whenever he performs in central Connecticut.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 14)
Andrew Glackin, a Hartt School alumnus, died on Jan. 5 from heart damage caused by an undiagnosed thyroid condition. Glackin, a bassist who lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., played with the Silos, Graham Parker, Susan Tedeschi, the Feathermerchants, and others.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 10)
Courtney Gomez, a senior point guard on the Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team and a student who has begun her graduate work in the University’s physical therapy doctoral program, was profiled by The Day of New London newspaper.
(The Day, Jan. 15)
WTIC Radio sports commentator Scott Gray suggested that following the hearings before Congress on the issue of performance-enhancing drugs, Major League baseball needs a new commissioner who is not beholden to the team owners or the players association. He also recommended, as one of the best men for the job, University of Hartford President Walter Harrison. Gray said President Harrison is “a man who has a great love for baseball and a great understanding of the game and knowledge of its history and has acted very effectively as the head of one of the most important committees formed by the NCAA in the last quarter century.”
(WTIC-AM, Jan. 10)
Harrison, who is chair of the NCAA committee on academic performance, was quoted in several news stories, responding to a recent study that found that Division 1-A football players spend an average of 44.8 hours per week on their sport. “It’s an early warning sign that we’ve got a problem,” he said. The NCAA is also considering a study to see if athletes are clustering into certain academic majors. “At some level, everyone knows that athletes are being channeled into certain majors,” Harrison said. “It would be helpful to know how much it is happening and whether it is increasing.”
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 12; Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 11 and Jan. 14)
Harrison was also quoted in an article about University of Georgia President Michael Adams, who was recently named chairman of the NCAA Executive Committee, a post formerly held by Harrison. “He’s one of the six most powerful presidents and he’s probably one of the dozen most powerful people in college sports,” said Harrison. “As presidents go, he understands college athletics as well as anybody in the country.”
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 13)
Other News
Tuition in the Connecticut State University system will rise by 5 percent on all four campuses in the coming school year, but a more amorphous “university general fee” that students pay is rising more. The fee for students at Southern Connecticut State University will climb from $2,068 to $2,426 in the fall — a 17.3 percent increase. Their counterparts at Western Connecticut State University will pay a $2,332 university general fee, a 12.9 percent increase over the current school year.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 17)
A website launched on Jan. 17 by a coalition of schools, state agencies and community groups will try to take the mystery out of applying for college and lining up financial aid. The site, named KnowHow2Go, was announced at Bellizzi Middle School in Hartford by Connecticut Commissioner of Higher Education Valerie Lewis. The website helps high school students browse Connecticut's 47 colleges, choose the right college-prep courses to take, learn which entrance exams to take, and prepare for questions they'll see on college applications.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 18)
Yale University said it will expand financial aid to families making up to $200,000 a year, eliminating the need for most middle class and some upper middle class students to take out loans. Although applauded by some, the aid improvements were met skeptically by others, who warned that students from modest backgrounds — with less impressive academic credentials — would be edged out by wealthier applicants. Yale is hoping that better financial aid, along with outreach to low-income students, will create a more diverse student body.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 15)
To help the University of Connecticut compete for major research grants, President Michael J. Hogan is proposing an administrative reorganization designed to increase collaboration between the UConn Health Center in Farmington and the Storrs campus. Under the plan, the deans of the schools of medicine and dental medicine would report to Provost Peter Nicholls in Storrs and would become part of the council of deans.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 15)
Gov. M. Jodi Rell has asked the state auditors to review accounting irregularities uncovered in past audits of the University of Connecticut’s construction program. Rell has asked the auditors to review certain transactions found in audits of the construction program carried out in fiscal years 2004 and 2005. Specifically, she has asked them to look into unsupported journal voucher entries and changes to UConn bond indentures. Rell has asked the auditors to complete the review by Feb. 15.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 10)
The United States remains the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, particularly in Asia, the National Science Board said in its biennial report on science and engineering. The country’s position is especially delicate, the agency said, given its reliance on foreign-born workers to fill technical jobs. (New York Times, Jan. 16)
Students relying on college loans will soon feel the pinch from the subprime mortgage crisis, according to a report by financial aid guide FinAid. Not only will subprime borrowers have more trouble securing a student loan, but all student borrowers will be subject to stricter lending practices, according to the financial aid adviser. Roadblocks could include higher credit scores needed to secure student loans as well as higher interest rates on those loans.
(CNNMoney.com, Jan. 15)
College endowments, benefiting from soaring U.S. and international stock markets, posted an average investment return of 16.9 percent in their most recent fiscal year, according to a study to be released on Jan. 16. In absolute terms, the results were the strongest since at least 2000, according to the study by nonprofit Commonfund, a Wilton, Conn., firm that manages money for colleges.
(Wall Street Journal, Jan. 16)
The University of Hartford was awarded a $1.3 million grant by the Afghanistan Ministry of Higher Education, funded by the World Bank, to train faculty members from Herat University in Afghanistan and help them earn graduate degrees in engineering. Saleh Keshawarz, an associate professor of engineering at CETA, was interviewed by WTIC Radio about the grant, which also received coverage in the international press.
(HartfordBusiness.com, Jan. 9; WTIC-AM, Jan. 10; International News Network, Jan. 13; South Asian Journal, Jan. 14; Hartford Courant, Jan. 22)
Craig Dolder, a member of the University’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, was interviewed about the group’s plans to travel to India and install a solar-powered pump for a well in a small village and thereby provide the villagers with access to clean drinking water. “The village we’re going to only gets two hours of power a day and only has one real well for the village, which is about two kilometers outside the town,” said Dolder. “As a result, most of the women and girls spend much of their day, up to five hours, going back and forth carrying jugs of water back into the village for their families.”
(The Republican, Jan. 9)
An error by a mail house subcontractor resulted in acceptance letters being mailed to about 2,000 applicants to the University who instead should have gotten letters reminding them that their applications were incomplete.
(NBC 30, Jan. 17; Fox 61, Jan. 18; WTNH-TV Channel 8, Jan. 18; Hartford Courant, Jan. 19; WFSB-TV Channel 3, Jan. 19; Newsday, Jan. 20; Inside Higher Ed.com, Jan. 21)
Michael Crosbie, chair of the Department of Architecture in the University’s College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) , had an opinion piece published in the “Place” section of the Hartford Courant.The piece highlighted the newly renovated Hartford Public Library and all it has to offer to the Hartford community.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 20)
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science in Hillyer College, did several media interviews offering his analysis of the results of the New Hampshire presidential primary and the outlook for the 2008 presidential race going forward.
(Fox 61, Jan. 8; WDRC-AM, Jan. 9)
Mark Blackwell, associate professor and chair of the English Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently had a collection of essays that he edited, titled “The Secret Life of Things,” receive a half-page review in the Times Literary Supplement, the culture arm of The Times of London. (The Times of London, Jan. 11)
The "PostDec: Beyond Pattern and Decoration" exhibition that was on display in Joseloff Gallery from Nov. 9 through Dec. 23, 2007, was highlighted in a story on ArtNet.com about the Pattern and Decoration Movement.
(ArtNet.com, Jan. 10)
The Construction Institute and its executive director, Bill Cianci, were the subject of a two-page article in Voice magazine, a publication of the Construction Users Round Table (CURT), a national organization of construction and engineering executives representing major corporations that are among the largest consumers in the construction industry. Photographs of the University were included with the article.
(Voice magazine, January 2008 issue)
Steve Larson, chair of chamber music at The Hartt School, is a viola performer with the Avery Ensemble, which was scheduled to open the Classical Concert Series for 2008 at Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, Conn.
(Voices, Jan. 8)
Jazz saxophonist Houston Person gave a concert at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain to a near capacity crowd. In a review of the show by the Hartford Courant, Person, who studied at The Hartt School, recalled his early days of performing to a small crowd in the same town, and said it feels like a homecoming whenever he performs in central Connecticut.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 14)
Andrew Glackin, a Hartt School alumnus, died on Jan. 5 from heart damage caused by an undiagnosed thyroid condition. Glackin, a bassist who lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., played with the Silos, Graham Parker, Susan Tedeschi, the Feathermerchants, and others.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 10)
Courtney Gomez, a senior point guard on the Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team and a student who has begun her graduate work in the University’s physical therapy doctoral program, was profiled by The Day of New London newspaper.
(The Day, Jan. 15)
WTIC Radio sports commentator Scott Gray suggested that following the hearings before Congress on the issue of performance-enhancing drugs, Major League baseball needs a new commissioner who is not beholden to the team owners or the players association. He also recommended, as one of the best men for the job, University of Hartford President Walter Harrison. Gray said President Harrison is “a man who has a great love for baseball and a great understanding of the game and knowledge of its history and has acted very effectively as the head of one of the most important committees formed by the NCAA in the last quarter century.”
(WTIC-AM, Jan. 10)
Harrison, who is chair of the NCAA committee on academic performance, was quoted in several news stories, responding to a recent study that found that Division 1-A football players spend an average of 44.8 hours per week on their sport. “It’s an early warning sign that we’ve got a problem,” he said. The NCAA is also considering a study to see if athletes are clustering into certain academic majors. “At some level, everyone knows that athletes are being channeled into certain majors,” Harrison said. “It would be helpful to know how much it is happening and whether it is increasing.”
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 12; Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 11 and Jan. 14)
Harrison was also quoted in an article about University of Georgia President Michael Adams, who was recently named chairman of the NCAA Executive Committee, a post formerly held by Harrison. “He’s one of the six most powerful presidents and he’s probably one of the dozen most powerful people in college sports,” said Harrison. “As presidents go, he understands college athletics as well as anybody in the country.”
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 13)
Other News
Tuition in the Connecticut State University system will rise by 5 percent on all four campuses in the coming school year, but a more amorphous “university general fee” that students pay is rising more. The fee for students at Southern Connecticut State University will climb from $2,068 to $2,426 in the fall — a 17.3 percent increase. Their counterparts at Western Connecticut State University will pay a $2,332 university general fee, a 12.9 percent increase over the current school year.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 17)
A website launched on Jan. 17 by a coalition of schools, state agencies and community groups will try to take the mystery out of applying for college and lining up financial aid. The site, named KnowHow2Go, was announced at Bellizzi Middle School in Hartford by Connecticut Commissioner of Higher Education Valerie Lewis. The website helps high school students browse Connecticut's 47 colleges, choose the right college-prep courses to take, learn which entrance exams to take, and prepare for questions they'll see on college applications.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 18)
Yale University said it will expand financial aid to families making up to $200,000 a year, eliminating the need for most middle class and some upper middle class students to take out loans. Although applauded by some, the aid improvements were met skeptically by others, who warned that students from modest backgrounds — with less impressive academic credentials — would be edged out by wealthier applicants. Yale is hoping that better financial aid, along with outreach to low-income students, will create a more diverse student body.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 15)
To help the University of Connecticut compete for major research grants, President Michael J. Hogan is proposing an administrative reorganization designed to increase collaboration between the UConn Health Center in Farmington and the Storrs campus. Under the plan, the deans of the schools of medicine and dental medicine would report to Provost Peter Nicholls in Storrs and would become part of the council of deans.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 15)
Gov. M. Jodi Rell has asked the state auditors to review accounting irregularities uncovered in past audits of the University of Connecticut’s construction program. Rell has asked the auditors to review certain transactions found in audits of the construction program carried out in fiscal years 2004 and 2005. Specifically, she has asked them to look into unsupported journal voucher entries and changes to UConn bond indentures. Rell has asked the auditors to complete the review by Feb. 15.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 10)
The United States remains the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, particularly in Asia, the National Science Board said in its biennial report on science and engineering. The country’s position is especially delicate, the agency said, given its reliance on foreign-born workers to fill technical jobs. (New York Times, Jan. 16)
Students relying on college loans will soon feel the pinch from the subprime mortgage crisis, according to a report by financial aid guide FinAid. Not only will subprime borrowers have more trouble securing a student loan, but all student borrowers will be subject to stricter lending practices, according to the financial aid adviser. Roadblocks could include higher credit scores needed to secure student loans as well as higher interest rates on those loans.
(CNNMoney.com, Jan. 15)
College endowments, benefiting from soaring U.S. and international stock markets, posted an average investment return of 16.9 percent in their most recent fiscal year, according to a study to be released on Jan. 16. In absolute terms, the results were the strongest since at least 2000, according to the study by nonprofit Commonfund, a Wilton, Conn., firm that manages money for colleges.
(Wall Street Journal, Jan. 16)
