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Media Watch (Jan. 28 – Feb. 4, 2008)
Posted 2/5/2008
"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.
Albert DiChiara, associate professor of sociology and director of the criminal justice program in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an opinion piece about the ineffectiveness of three-strikes laws for the Hartford Business Journal. “The community must be careful when weighing the financial and social costs versus the benefits of such proposals. As a category of sentencing policy, three-strikes laws are of dubious merit,” he wrote. Read DiChiara’s commentary.
(Hartford Business Journal, Feb. 4)
A car went off the University roadway and into the Hog River sometime early Saturday morning and was reported to Public Safety at about 6:45 a.m. that day by students in A-Complex. Public Safety immediately contacted West Hartford Police, who brought their search-and-rescue team to campus to look for the driver of the car. Public Safety assisted in the search. The driver of the car, a former student who was visiting campus, was found by police at a location off campus. There were no injuries as a result of this incident.
(WTIC-AM, Feb. 2; NBC 30, Feb. 2 and 3; WFSB Channel 3, Feb. 2; WTNH Channel 8, Feb. 2; FOX 61, Feb. 2)
The University received a $2 million gift from Regent Jean-Pierre van Rooy and his wife, Marie-Claire, to establish the van Rooy Center for Complexity and Conflict Analysis. The gift is one of the largest in the University’s history and will be used to study systems that are between order and chaos, such as the weather, noted interim Provost Joseph Voelker, who was quoted in both the radio and newspaper stories on the gift.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 30; WFCR-FM, Jan. 29)
Lee Peters, vice president for student affairs, was quoted extensively in a story in Connecticut Magazine about the impact of “helicopter” parents on their children. He noted that the issue of “helicopter” parents also affects students at the graduate level.
(Connecticut Magazine, February ’08 issue)
Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department in the College of Arts and Sciences, had a piece in The Huffington Post titled “Bucking the Conventional Wisdom: Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama, and Why I Bet on the New York Giants.” He said that in both instances he was supporting hope and turning conventional wisdom upside down.
(The Huffington Post, Feb. 4)
Eric Chen, adjunct faculty member at the Barney School of Business, was a guest on the “Dan Lovallo Show” on WDRC Radio. He discussed the correlation between the outcomes of past Super Bowls and the performance of the stock market. He noted that when a team from the NFC wins the Super Bowl, the market usually moves higher during that year and when the AFC team wins, the market will go lower.
(WDRC-AM, Feb. 1)
At a “Youth Employment Showcase” put on by Capital Workforce Partners, Hartt School sophomore Aja Wilson spoke about her experiences working at Aetna and how that has helped her better focus her career aspirations. (CT-Network, Jan. 17)
A program on the violence in Darfur, including remarks from someone who experienced that violence first-hand, was held on the University of Hartford campus and hosted by the Connecticut Young Democrats, Hartford Hillel and the University’s Government and Law Society. The event was previewed by the Hartford Courant and covered by FOX 61.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 30; Fox 61, Jan. 30)
Freshmen J. Kenny, Zach Breen and Jamee Freitag traveled to Foxboro, Mass., to join thousands of fans in sending off the New England Patriots to Super Bowl XLII. Kenny showed his support by standing shirtless in the stands in the light snow and subfreezing temperatures. “It’s cold, but it’s for the Pats so, it’s worth it,” Kenny said.
(Boston Globe, Jan. 28)
Danielle Cyr, a 2006 graduate of the University with a degree in communication, with emphasis in advertising and public relations, was featured in the “Fresh Faces” section of the Hartford Business Journal. Cyr is the newest account coordinator at Co-Communications in Simsbury. “I had great experiences in college,” Cyr said. “Advertising and PR are so interconnected I feel that I bring both perspectives to the table…I was fortunate going to college knowing what I wanted to get out of the experience.”
(Hartford Business Journal, Feb.4)
The energy generated by the 2008 presidential race seems to be everywhere you find young adults, and colleges and universities are the epicenters, noted the Hartford Courant. The article highlighted the campaign activities going on at campuses across the state, including the University of Hartford, where there is a program called “The Blitz,” in which student disseminated information about candidates’ backgrounds and politics, and information about polling places.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 3)
Other News
About 100 students at Connecticut colleges, mostly from the University of Connecticut, have gotten letters from the Recording Industry Association of America demanding they pay from $3,000 to as much as $6,000 to settle claims that they illegally shared music or movies online. Students at UConn, Trinity College, Yale University, and Fairfield University are among 5,000 students across the nation the industry is going after to crack down on illegal file-trafficking. The letter specifies which files the student has shared and demands the student pay the fine within 20 days or be sued in federal court.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 1)
Hoping to encourage job growth, Gov. M. Jodi Rell said that she will set aside $5 million in her revised budget to develop industry–university partnerships in nanotechnology research at the University of Connecticut and Yale University. The money will allow both universities to establish centers of nanoscience, with UConn focused on the application of material science and Yale’s oriented toward bioscience. The centers will be accessible by industry, faculty and students outside each institution.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 31)
The University of Connecticut lifted its voluntary water conservation measures on campus on Jan. 29 but the students’ water-saving efforts, such as using paper plates in dining halls, lowering air conditioning temperatures and cutting down on luxuriously long hot showers, paid off. Water consumption dropped by 27 million gallons — or 10 percent — over the past six months, compared with the same period last year, university officials said.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 30)
More bad news for college officials who say too many parents are micromanaging their children’s lives: Most college-bound kids seem to welcome the involvement. About three-quarters of this year’s college freshmen reported that their parents were involved the “right amount” in a variety of activities related to choosing and enrolling in college, a survey says. The survey, completed last fall by more than 272,000 entering freshmen on 356 four-year campuses nationwide, did not ask students to quantify the level of their parents’ involvement, nor did it measure whether that level had increased.
(USA Today, Feb. 1)
The United States continues to fall behind other major industrialized nations in terms of the percentage of the population with a college degree, according to a recent series of joint studies released by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and Jobs for the Future. Currently ranked 10th among industrialized countries in the percentage of 25-34-year-olds holding an associate’s degree or higher, the U.S. is projected to slip further, ranking near the bottom in the percentage of entering students that complete a degree program. Notably, the U.S. now stands as one of the only countries where older adults are more educated than younger adults.
(Fox Business.com, Feb. 4)
The NCAA has agreed to a $218 million fund for athletes over six years and to allow schools to give athletes year-round health insurance as part of a settlement of an antitrust suit. The nearly two-year-old class-action lawsuit, filed by some football and men’s basketball players in California, contested NCAA limits on scholarships. The suit sought scholarships that fund the “full cost of attendance,” including travel, phone, and laundry, and not just tuition, books, and room and board. “We think the settlement includes some important reforms and changes to NCAA rules, and benefits to athletes, to better afford the costs they incur when they go to school,” said Stephen Morrissey, attorney for the plaintiffs.
(Indianapolis Star, Jan. 31)
Albert DiChiara, associate professor of sociology and director of the criminal justice program in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an opinion piece about the ineffectiveness of three-strikes laws for the Hartford Business Journal. “The community must be careful when weighing the financial and social costs versus the benefits of such proposals. As a category of sentencing policy, three-strikes laws are of dubious merit,” he wrote. Read DiChiara’s commentary.
(Hartford Business Journal, Feb. 4)
A car went off the University roadway and into the Hog River sometime early Saturday morning and was reported to Public Safety at about 6:45 a.m. that day by students in A-Complex. Public Safety immediately contacted West Hartford Police, who brought their search-and-rescue team to campus to look for the driver of the car. Public Safety assisted in the search. The driver of the car, a former student who was visiting campus, was found by police at a location off campus. There were no injuries as a result of this incident.
(WTIC-AM, Feb. 2; NBC 30, Feb. 2 and 3; WFSB Channel 3, Feb. 2; WTNH Channel 8, Feb. 2; FOX 61, Feb. 2)
The University received a $2 million gift from Regent Jean-Pierre van Rooy and his wife, Marie-Claire, to establish the van Rooy Center for Complexity and Conflict Analysis. The gift is one of the largest in the University’s history and will be used to study systems that are between order and chaos, such as the weather, noted interim Provost Joseph Voelker, who was quoted in both the radio and newspaper stories on the gift.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 30; WFCR-FM, Jan. 29)
Lee Peters, vice president for student affairs, was quoted extensively in a story in Connecticut Magazine about the impact of “helicopter” parents on their children. He noted that the issue of “helicopter” parents also affects students at the graduate level.
(Connecticut Magazine, February ’08 issue)
Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department in the College of Arts and Sciences, had a piece in The Huffington Post titled “Bucking the Conventional Wisdom: Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama, and Why I Bet on the New York Giants.” He said that in both instances he was supporting hope and turning conventional wisdom upside down.
(The Huffington Post, Feb. 4)
Eric Chen, adjunct faculty member at the Barney School of Business, was a guest on the “Dan Lovallo Show” on WDRC Radio. He discussed the correlation between the outcomes of past Super Bowls and the performance of the stock market. He noted that when a team from the NFC wins the Super Bowl, the market usually moves higher during that year and when the AFC team wins, the market will go lower.
(WDRC-AM, Feb. 1)
At a “Youth Employment Showcase” put on by Capital Workforce Partners, Hartt School sophomore Aja Wilson spoke about her experiences working at Aetna and how that has helped her better focus her career aspirations. (CT-Network, Jan. 17)
A program on the violence in Darfur, including remarks from someone who experienced that violence first-hand, was held on the University of Hartford campus and hosted by the Connecticut Young Democrats, Hartford Hillel and the University’s Government and Law Society. The event was previewed by the Hartford Courant and covered by FOX 61.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 30; Fox 61, Jan. 30)
Freshmen J. Kenny, Zach Breen and Jamee Freitag traveled to Foxboro, Mass., to join thousands of fans in sending off the New England Patriots to Super Bowl XLII. Kenny showed his support by standing shirtless in the stands in the light snow and subfreezing temperatures. “It’s cold, but it’s for the Pats so, it’s worth it,” Kenny said.
(Boston Globe, Jan. 28)
Danielle Cyr, a 2006 graduate of the University with a degree in communication, with emphasis in advertising and public relations, was featured in the “Fresh Faces” section of the Hartford Business Journal. Cyr is the newest account coordinator at Co-Communications in Simsbury. “I had great experiences in college,” Cyr said. “Advertising and PR are so interconnected I feel that I bring both perspectives to the table…I was fortunate going to college knowing what I wanted to get out of the experience.”
(Hartford Business Journal, Feb.4)
The energy generated by the 2008 presidential race seems to be everywhere you find young adults, and colleges and universities are the epicenters, noted the Hartford Courant. The article highlighted the campaign activities going on at campuses across the state, including the University of Hartford, where there is a program called “The Blitz,” in which student disseminated information about candidates’ backgrounds and politics, and information about polling places.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 3)
Other News
About 100 students at Connecticut colleges, mostly from the University of Connecticut, have gotten letters from the Recording Industry Association of America demanding they pay from $3,000 to as much as $6,000 to settle claims that they illegally shared music or movies online. Students at UConn, Trinity College, Yale University, and Fairfield University are among 5,000 students across the nation the industry is going after to crack down on illegal file-trafficking. The letter specifies which files the student has shared and demands the student pay the fine within 20 days or be sued in federal court.
(Hartford Courant, Feb. 1)
Hoping to encourage job growth, Gov. M. Jodi Rell said that she will set aside $5 million in her revised budget to develop industry–university partnerships in nanotechnology research at the University of Connecticut and Yale University. The money will allow both universities to establish centers of nanoscience, with UConn focused on the application of material science and Yale’s oriented toward bioscience. The centers will be accessible by industry, faculty and students outside each institution.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 31)
The University of Connecticut lifted its voluntary water conservation measures on campus on Jan. 29 but the students’ water-saving efforts, such as using paper plates in dining halls, lowering air conditioning temperatures and cutting down on luxuriously long hot showers, paid off. Water consumption dropped by 27 million gallons — or 10 percent — over the past six months, compared with the same period last year, university officials said.
(Hartford Courant, Jan. 30)
More bad news for college officials who say too many parents are micromanaging their children’s lives: Most college-bound kids seem to welcome the involvement. About three-quarters of this year’s college freshmen reported that their parents were involved the “right amount” in a variety of activities related to choosing and enrolling in college, a survey says. The survey, completed last fall by more than 272,000 entering freshmen on 356 four-year campuses nationwide, did not ask students to quantify the level of their parents’ involvement, nor did it measure whether that level had increased.
(USA Today, Feb. 1)
The United States continues to fall behind other major industrialized nations in terms of the percentage of the population with a college degree, according to a recent series of joint studies released by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and Jobs for the Future. Currently ranked 10th among industrialized countries in the percentage of 25-34-year-olds holding an associate’s degree or higher, the U.S. is projected to slip further, ranking near the bottom in the percentage of entering students that complete a degree program. Notably, the U.S. now stands as one of the only countries where older adults are more educated than younger adults.
(Fox Business.com, Feb. 4)
The NCAA has agreed to a $218 million fund for athletes over six years and to allow schools to give athletes year-round health insurance as part of a settlement of an antitrust suit. The nearly two-year-old class-action lawsuit, filed by some football and men’s basketball players in California, contested NCAA limits on scholarships. The suit sought scholarships that fund the “full cost of attendance,” including travel, phone, and laundry, and not just tuition, books, and room and board. “We think the settlement includes some important reforms and changes to NCAA rules, and benefits to athletes, to better afford the costs they incur when they go to school,” said Stephen Morrissey, attorney for the plaintiffs.
(Indianapolis Star, Jan. 31)
