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Media Watch (March 24 – 31, 2008)
Posted 4/1/2008
"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.
Joseloff Gallery Director Zina Davis and two Hartford Art School students were featured in a NBC 30 story on the Beyond Green exhibition that will open on April 4. The story highlighted some of the pieces in the exhibition, which Davis said can be viewed simply as art but also as something to reflect on our relationship to the environment.
(NBC 30, March 31)
The news that Lynn Pasquerella has been named as the new provost at University of Hartford was noted in a column on the appointment of new presidents and provosts posted on Inside Higher Ed.com. Pasquerella, who is currently vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the graduate school at the University of Rhode Island, will assume her new duties on May 30. Pasquerella was also interviewed in URI’s student paper, The Good 5 Cent-Cigar.
(Inside Higher Ed.com, March 25; The Good 5-Cent Cigar, March 27)
Students from The Hartt School will be performing in the concert scenes in The Music Man, starring Shirley Jones, that will be performed at Hartord’s Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, April 22 through 27. The concerts, which will be staged by Philip William McKinley of he Boy from Oz,will also feature local high school marching bands.
(Playbill.com, March 27)
The University’s MUSIC for a CHANGE benefit concert series was the subject of a two-page spread in the April issue of Hartford Magazine. Irwin Nussbaum, director of the series and the University’s associate vice president for student life, was quoted extensively in the article. Fred Sweitzer, associated dean in the College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions, was also quoted.
(Hartford Magazine, April ’08 issue)
Dezron Douglas, who studied at the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at The Hartt School, will perform as part of Firehouse 12’s 2008 Spring Jazz Series in New Haven. Douglas has traveled the world as an in-demand bassist and sideman, performing and recording with such jazz luminaries such as Andy Bey, Jon Faddis, Kenny Garret and Kevin Mahogany.
(AllAboutJazz.com, March 25)
Hope Foye, who graduated from The Hartt School in 1944 and is an acclaimed singer and early civil rights activist, is being honored by Union Bank of California and the Central Area Association as part of Women’s History Month. She became internationally recognized as an opera star in countries such as Mexico, Switzerland, Israel, and Germany, but because she was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, never gained national exposure in the United States.
(DailyBreeze.com, March 23)
Composer Gwyneth Walker, an alumna of The Hartt School, was featured in an article outlining her recent composition for Bella Voce, the Burlington, Vt., women’s choir. Bella Voce commissioned Walker to write music for the choir with the idea of presenting new work by a female composer with lyrics by a Vermont poet.
(Times Argus, March 28)
Jennifer Rizzotti, Hawks women’s basketball head coach, was quoted in the Dallas Morning News, praising senior Danielle Hood, who averaged 16 points this season and finished her Hartford career as the school’s second all-time leading scorer. “She has been the face of the University of Hartford’s women’s basketball program,” Rizzotti said. “She’s really taken our program to a whole other level.”
(Dallas Morning News, March 25)
Former Hawks men’s basketball coach Larry Harrison, now the third assistant coach for the West Virginia men’s basketball team, was profiled in a Hartford Courant column as the West Virginia team made it to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. The Mountaineers were eliminated in their next game against third-seeded Xavier.
(Hartford Courant, March 27)
Other News
In a cover story, the Hartford Business Journal noted that “Despite a steady growth in engineering graduates produced in Connecticut, local companies are struggling to fill vacancies.” The story also noted that “The state produced 614 engineering grads last year, up 28.5 percent from 2003. But many of those students from schools like the University of Connecticut, the University of Hartford and Yale University take entry-level jobs in other states.”
(Hartford Business Journal, March 31
Two colleges in Connecticut are stepping up security patrols in the wake of attacks on female students. A Trinity College student was sexually assaulted on the edge of campus in the early morning hours of March 28. A Central Connecticut State University student was kidnapped from her off-campus apartment on March 27. Students at both schools say they are concerned and are trying to be more aware of their surroundings.
(Hartford Courant, March 30)
College professors and others in the education field are donating record amounts of money to national political candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Many professors are concerned about America’s standing abroad, and what they see as the loss of civil liberties and President Bush’s disregard for science. Employees at Yale have donated $191,000 to candidates, with most of it going to Barack Obama.
(Hartford Courant, March 30)
The ongoing credit crunch may start having an impact on the student loan market. Financial experts say while there is no cause for alarm right now, some students and parents may have a difficult time obtaining private loans that require credit checks. Connecticut’s own loan agency, CHESLA, has $31 million to lend and may add more money to that pool.
(Hartford Courant, March 29)
Many colleges are forming “threat assessment groups,” hoping to prevent the kind violence seen at Virginia Teach and Northern Illinois University. These groups, including one at the University of Kentucky, meet regularly to talk about specific troubled students and how to deal with them. In the past, many college administrators and mental health professionals were reluctant to talk about students’ mental health issues because of privacy laws.
(Hartford Courant, March 29)
About one U.S. college student in five lacks health insurance, leaving the federal government and states to pay for their care, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. America's 47 million uninsured include 1.7 million students, or 3.6 percent of the total.
(Bloomberg.com, March 31)
Nearly a year after the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, the U.S. Education Department has proposed new regulations to clarify when colleges can release confidential information about students with mental health problems. “The changes that are proposed in the regulations provide additional assurance that colleges and universities acting in good faith can disclose information from education records in health and safety emergency situations to parents and to others who have a reason to need to know the information,” said the general counsel for the American Council on Education.
(Washington Post, March 26)
Upcoming
Eleta Jones, associate director of the University’s Center for Professional Development, was interviewed by Debra Bogsti of NBC 30 on March 27, at the Center for Professional Development for a story about “Strategies to Ace the Job Interview.” The air date has not yet been determined.
William Sanders, a professor in the Multimedia Web Design and Development program, is working with NBC 30 reporter Monica Buchanan on a “Consumer Affairs” story about possible scams while getting one’s computer repaired. The segment will air sometime during the May “sweeps” period.
Joseloff Gallery Director Zina Davis and two Hartford Art School students were featured in a NBC 30 story on the Beyond Green exhibition that will open on April 4. The story highlighted some of the pieces in the exhibition, which Davis said can be viewed simply as art but also as something to reflect on our relationship to the environment.
(NBC 30, March 31)
The news that Lynn Pasquerella has been named as the new provost at University of Hartford was noted in a column on the appointment of new presidents and provosts posted on Inside Higher Ed.com. Pasquerella, who is currently vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the graduate school at the University of Rhode Island, will assume her new duties on May 30. Pasquerella was also interviewed in URI’s student paper, The Good 5 Cent-Cigar.
(Inside Higher Ed.com, March 25; The Good 5-Cent Cigar, March 27)
Students from The Hartt School will be performing in the concert scenes in The Music Man, starring Shirley Jones, that will be performed at Hartord’s Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, April 22 through 27. The concerts, which will be staged by Philip William McKinley of he Boy from Oz,will also feature local high school marching bands.
(Playbill.com, March 27)
The University’s MUSIC for a CHANGE benefit concert series was the subject of a two-page spread in the April issue of Hartford Magazine. Irwin Nussbaum, director of the series and the University’s associate vice president for student life, was quoted extensively in the article. Fred Sweitzer, associated dean in the College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions, was also quoted.
(Hartford Magazine, April ’08 issue)
Dezron Douglas, who studied at the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at The Hartt School, will perform as part of Firehouse 12’s 2008 Spring Jazz Series in New Haven. Douglas has traveled the world as an in-demand bassist and sideman, performing and recording with such jazz luminaries such as Andy Bey, Jon Faddis, Kenny Garret and Kevin Mahogany.
(AllAboutJazz.com, March 25)
Hope Foye, who graduated from The Hartt School in 1944 and is an acclaimed singer and early civil rights activist, is being honored by Union Bank of California and the Central Area Association as part of Women’s History Month. She became internationally recognized as an opera star in countries such as Mexico, Switzerland, Israel, and Germany, but because she was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, never gained national exposure in the United States.
(DailyBreeze.com, March 23)
Composer Gwyneth Walker, an alumna of The Hartt School, was featured in an article outlining her recent composition for Bella Voce, the Burlington, Vt., women’s choir. Bella Voce commissioned Walker to write music for the choir with the idea of presenting new work by a female composer with lyrics by a Vermont poet.
(Times Argus, March 28)
Jennifer Rizzotti, Hawks women’s basketball head coach, was quoted in the Dallas Morning News, praising senior Danielle Hood, who averaged 16 points this season and finished her Hartford career as the school’s second all-time leading scorer. “She has been the face of the University of Hartford’s women’s basketball program,” Rizzotti said. “She’s really taken our program to a whole other level.”
(Dallas Morning News, March 25)
Former Hawks men’s basketball coach Larry Harrison, now the third assistant coach for the West Virginia men’s basketball team, was profiled in a Hartford Courant column as the West Virginia team made it to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. The Mountaineers were eliminated in their next game against third-seeded Xavier.
(Hartford Courant, March 27)
Other News
In a cover story, the Hartford Business Journal noted that “Despite a steady growth in engineering graduates produced in Connecticut, local companies are struggling to fill vacancies.” The story also noted that “The state produced 614 engineering grads last year, up 28.5 percent from 2003. But many of those students from schools like the University of Connecticut, the University of Hartford and Yale University take entry-level jobs in other states.”
(Hartford Business Journal, March 31
Two colleges in Connecticut are stepping up security patrols in the wake of attacks on female students. A Trinity College student was sexually assaulted on the edge of campus in the early morning hours of March 28. A Central Connecticut State University student was kidnapped from her off-campus apartment on March 27. Students at both schools say they are concerned and are trying to be more aware of their surroundings.
(Hartford Courant, March 30)
College professors and others in the education field are donating record amounts of money to national political candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Many professors are concerned about America’s standing abroad, and what they see as the loss of civil liberties and President Bush’s disregard for science. Employees at Yale have donated $191,000 to candidates, with most of it going to Barack Obama.
(Hartford Courant, March 30)
The ongoing credit crunch may start having an impact on the student loan market. Financial experts say while there is no cause for alarm right now, some students and parents may have a difficult time obtaining private loans that require credit checks. Connecticut’s own loan agency, CHESLA, has $31 million to lend and may add more money to that pool.
(Hartford Courant, March 29)
Many colleges are forming “threat assessment groups,” hoping to prevent the kind violence seen at Virginia Teach and Northern Illinois University. These groups, including one at the University of Kentucky, meet regularly to talk about specific troubled students and how to deal with them. In the past, many college administrators and mental health professionals were reluctant to talk about students’ mental health issues because of privacy laws.
(Hartford Courant, March 29)
About one U.S. college student in five lacks health insurance, leaving the federal government and states to pay for their care, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. America's 47 million uninsured include 1.7 million students, or 3.6 percent of the total.
(Bloomberg.com, March 31)
Nearly a year after the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, the U.S. Education Department has proposed new regulations to clarify when colleges can release confidential information about students with mental health problems. “The changes that are proposed in the regulations provide additional assurance that colleges and universities acting in good faith can disclose information from education records in health and safety emergency situations to parents and to others who have a reason to need to know the information,” said the general counsel for the American Council on Education.
(Washington Post, March 26)
Upcoming
Eleta Jones, associate director of the University’s Center for Professional Development, was interviewed by Debra Bogsti of NBC 30 on March 27, at the Center for Professional Development for a story about “Strategies to Ace the Job Interview.” The air date has not yet been determined.
William Sanders, a professor in the Multimedia Web Design and Development program, is working with NBC 30 reporter Monica Buchanan on a “Consumer Affairs” story about possible scams while getting one’s computer repaired. The segment will air sometime during the May “sweeps” period.
