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Media Watch (May 31 - June 6, 2005)
Posted 6/6/2005
"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.
President Walter Harrison was quoted in a story that highlighted the efforts of area colleges and universities to bring more of their students into downtown Hartford. The article, published in Hartford on the Rise magazine, cited the University’s commitment to house students at the renovated Sage-Allen building, the University High School of Science and Engineering, and the University of Hartford Performing Arts Center project. (Hartford on the Rise, May ’05)
Lawrence Epstein, who will be delivering the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies’ annual Jewish Humor Lecture on June 15, was a guest on the “Morning Show with Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith” on WTIC-AM radio on June 6. He was interviewed about the impact of Jewish comedians on American humor and culture. (WTIC NewsTalk 1080, June 6)
Demetrios Giannaros, professor of economics in the Barney School of Business and a state representative from Farmington, was quoted in a Hartford Courant story about efforts between the state Democrats and Gov. M. Jodi Rell to negotiate a new state budget. Giannaros spoke about the negative impact of increasing certain taxes, such as the cigarette tax, as a way of raising revenues for the state. (Hartford Courant, June 4)
A write-up and photograph of the Greater Middletown Special Olympics (GMSO) athletes who competed in the Special Olympics Eastern Regional Games, hosted by the University of Hartford in conjunction with Weaver High School and Watkinson School, was featured in the Town Times. (Town Times, Middletown, June 3)
Some graduates of The Entrepreneurial Center and the SBA Women’s Business Center program – Comprehensive Small Business Training – were recently in the news. Liz Talbot, who completed the program in fall 2001 and is founder and president of The Talbot Group, LLC of Avon, a company specializing in relocation services for executives and their families relocating to Connecticut, received a MetroAlliance’s Business Champions Award for companies with 10 or less employees. She was honored at the Business Champions Award Luncheon held opening day of the Connecticut Convention Center. Dinah Hale, who completed the program in fall 2004, and her business, The Liberty Bell Museum, a virtual museum gift shop, were featured in the June issue of Rocky Hill Life. (Hartford Business Journal, May 30; Rocky Hill Life, June ’05 issue)
Andrew Schiffer, a 1989 graduate of the University, was recently honored as West Hartford’s police officer of the year. Schiffer, who ran the steeplechase as a student-athlete at the University, now works on police department’s SWAT and SCUBA teams and as an evidence technician and a firearms instructor, as well as offering peer stress assistance. (Hartford Courant, May 30)
More than 200 children from 22 Connecticut elementary schools received Paul G. Keough Earth Artist awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at a celebration held on June 1 at the University’s Lincoln Theater. The students had participated in the 32nd annual Earth Artist contest to demonstrate their knowledge of and commitment to a clean environment. (U.S. EPA News Office, June 2)
In a column on Major League Baseball news, it was noted that former University star Jeff Bagwell would be having surgery this week on his ailing shoulder. The column noted that “Bagwell, 37, goes into the surgery with no illusions. He understands the odds are against him returning as an elite player, and it is possible he will never play again. If this is the end, Bagwell said he is comfortable with his career. The four-time All-Star and 1994 National League MVP has 449 homers, 2,311 hits and a .297 career average.” (Hartford Courant, June 5)
University alum Tim Petrovic, who earned his first win on the PGA Tour last month at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf tournament, has committed to play in the $4.4 million Buick Championship, being held Aug. 25 to 28, at the TPC at River Highlands in Cromwell. (Hartford Courant, June 3)
Lynn Valentine, a 1998 University of Hartford graduate and assistant at the Golf Club of Avon, shot a 74 in the final round of the Connecticut Women’s Open golf tournament for a 146 total and a third place finish. She earned $2,500. (Hartford Courant, June 2; Hartford Courant, June 1)
Other News
John P. Casey, president of General Dynamic Electric Boat, told graduates of Rensselaer at Hartford to give equal attention to relationships as they do to business. “You may be brilliant at your job but if you are inept at interpersonal relations, you cannot succeed,” said Casey. “There is no shortage of people focused on two of three P’s, product and profit, but there are fewer who understand the third—people.” (Associated Press, June 4; Newsday, June 4)
Three University of Connecticut football players were granted accelerated rehabilitation, a program for first-time offenders, for their roles in a pellet-gun shooting outside a Willimantic convenience store last month. Charges against them will be dismissed if they successfully complete two years of probation. (Newsday, June 6)
Top administrators at the University of Connecticut are learning that it isn’t easy to manage multibillion-dollar construction projects without missteps and criticism. For the second time in as many months, auditors have analyzed and found lacking the university’s handling of several building projects under UConn 2000, and have recommended measures to prevent further errors. (Hartford Courant, June 5; Hartford Courant, June 2)
The University of Connecticut is considering establishing a veterinary college that would be the second in New England. The board of trustees’ academic affairs committee on briefly discussed a consultants’ report that estimated it would cost $35 million to $95 million to build a veterinary school for 100 students, and as much as $14 million each year to operate it. (Hartford Courant, June 2)
A majority of Harvard alumni believe that the university’s president, Lawrence H. Summers, has done a good job overall and should not resign, according to a poll conducted for a new independent alumni magazine. The majority of respondents to the survey, 62 percent, said they disagreed with Summers’s controversial statements regarding women in the sciences, and 58 percent said they thought discrimination and upbringing, not aptitude, was the biggest factor contributing to the under-representation of women in the sciences. (New York Times, June 5)
Robert A. Brown, 53, chosen to be the next president of Boston University, comes from a humble background in San Antonio, where he was raised by a single mother and became the first in his family to go to college. As provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had spent his entire career, Brown has overseen many endeavors that are anything but humble, from a $300 million genomics collaboration with Harvard University to the costly and architecturally bold Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, to dramatic forays into new disciplines such as computational biology and biological engineering. (Boston Globe, June 6)
Thousands of American families might find it harder to qualify for financial aid this year and might be asked to contribute more money toward the cost of college because of changes to a complicated federal formula they barely know about, much less understand. (New York Times, June 6)
A record 49.6 million students filled U.S. schools in 2003, breaking a mark set by their baby boomer parents and giving educators a new generation of challenges. The growth is largely due to all the children who were born in the late 1940s to early 1960s and have since become parents themselves, said the U.S. Census Bureau. Rising immigration played a part, too, in pushing enrollment past the 1970 record of 48.7 million. (Associated Press, June 2; Boston Globe, June 3)
With almost no one noticing, New England’s $20 billion higher education industry is losing its market share thanks to shrinking populations and growing competition. Now some campuses are fighting back with sophisticated marketing straight from the corporate boardroom. (Boston Magazine, May ’05 issue)
President Walter Harrison was quoted in a story that highlighted the efforts of area colleges and universities to bring more of their students into downtown Hartford. The article, published in Hartford on the Rise magazine, cited the University’s commitment to house students at the renovated Sage-Allen building, the University High School of Science and Engineering, and the University of Hartford Performing Arts Center project. (Hartford on the Rise, May ’05)
Lawrence Epstein, who will be delivering the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies’ annual Jewish Humor Lecture on June 15, was a guest on the “Morning Show with Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith” on WTIC-AM radio on June 6. He was interviewed about the impact of Jewish comedians on American humor and culture. (WTIC NewsTalk 1080, June 6)
Demetrios Giannaros, professor of economics in the Barney School of Business and a state representative from Farmington, was quoted in a Hartford Courant story about efforts between the state Democrats and Gov. M. Jodi Rell to negotiate a new state budget. Giannaros spoke about the negative impact of increasing certain taxes, such as the cigarette tax, as a way of raising revenues for the state. (Hartford Courant, June 4)
A write-up and photograph of the Greater Middletown Special Olympics (GMSO) athletes who competed in the Special Olympics Eastern Regional Games, hosted by the University of Hartford in conjunction with Weaver High School and Watkinson School, was featured in the Town Times. (Town Times, Middletown, June 3)
Some graduates of The Entrepreneurial Center and the SBA Women’s Business Center program – Comprehensive Small Business Training – were recently in the news. Liz Talbot, who completed the program in fall 2001 and is founder and president of The Talbot Group, LLC of Avon, a company specializing in relocation services for executives and their families relocating to Connecticut, received a MetroAlliance’s Business Champions Award for companies with 10 or less employees. She was honored at the Business Champions Award Luncheon held opening day of the Connecticut Convention Center. Dinah Hale, who completed the program in fall 2004, and her business, The Liberty Bell Museum, a virtual museum gift shop, were featured in the June issue of Rocky Hill Life. (Hartford Business Journal, May 30; Rocky Hill Life, June ’05 issue)
Andrew Schiffer, a 1989 graduate of the University, was recently honored as West Hartford’s police officer of the year. Schiffer, who ran the steeplechase as a student-athlete at the University, now works on police department’s SWAT and SCUBA teams and as an evidence technician and a firearms instructor, as well as offering peer stress assistance. (Hartford Courant, May 30)
More than 200 children from 22 Connecticut elementary schools received Paul G. Keough Earth Artist awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at a celebration held on June 1 at the University’s Lincoln Theater. The students had participated in the 32nd annual Earth Artist contest to demonstrate their knowledge of and commitment to a clean environment. (U.S. EPA News Office, June 2)
In a column on Major League Baseball news, it was noted that former University star Jeff Bagwell would be having surgery this week on his ailing shoulder. The column noted that “Bagwell, 37, goes into the surgery with no illusions. He understands the odds are against him returning as an elite player, and it is possible he will never play again. If this is the end, Bagwell said he is comfortable with his career. The four-time All-Star and 1994 National League MVP has 449 homers, 2,311 hits and a .297 career average.” (Hartford Courant, June 5)
University alum Tim Petrovic, who earned his first win on the PGA Tour last month at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf tournament, has committed to play in the $4.4 million Buick Championship, being held Aug. 25 to 28, at the TPC at River Highlands in Cromwell. (Hartford Courant, June 3)
Lynn Valentine, a 1998 University of Hartford graduate and assistant at the Golf Club of Avon, shot a 74 in the final round of the Connecticut Women’s Open golf tournament for a 146 total and a third place finish. She earned $2,500. (Hartford Courant, June 2; Hartford Courant, June 1)
Other News
John P. Casey, president of General Dynamic Electric Boat, told graduates of Rensselaer at Hartford to give equal attention to relationships as they do to business. “You may be brilliant at your job but if you are inept at interpersonal relations, you cannot succeed,” said Casey. “There is no shortage of people focused on two of three P’s, product and profit, but there are fewer who understand the third—people.” (Associated Press, June 4; Newsday, June 4)
Three University of Connecticut football players were granted accelerated rehabilitation, a program for first-time offenders, for their roles in a pellet-gun shooting outside a Willimantic convenience store last month. Charges against them will be dismissed if they successfully complete two years of probation. (Newsday, June 6)
Top administrators at the University of Connecticut are learning that it isn’t easy to manage multibillion-dollar construction projects without missteps and criticism. For the second time in as many months, auditors have analyzed and found lacking the university’s handling of several building projects under UConn 2000, and have recommended measures to prevent further errors. (Hartford Courant, June 5; Hartford Courant, June 2)
The University of Connecticut is considering establishing a veterinary college that would be the second in New England. The board of trustees’ academic affairs committee on briefly discussed a consultants’ report that estimated it would cost $35 million to $95 million to build a veterinary school for 100 students, and as much as $14 million each year to operate it. (Hartford Courant, June 2)
A majority of Harvard alumni believe that the university’s president, Lawrence H. Summers, has done a good job overall and should not resign, according to a poll conducted for a new independent alumni magazine. The majority of respondents to the survey, 62 percent, said they disagreed with Summers’s controversial statements regarding women in the sciences, and 58 percent said they thought discrimination and upbringing, not aptitude, was the biggest factor contributing to the under-representation of women in the sciences. (New York Times, June 5)
Robert A. Brown, 53, chosen to be the next president of Boston University, comes from a humble background in San Antonio, where he was raised by a single mother and became the first in his family to go to college. As provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had spent his entire career, Brown has overseen many endeavors that are anything but humble, from a $300 million genomics collaboration with Harvard University to the costly and architecturally bold Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, to dramatic forays into new disciplines such as computational biology and biological engineering. (Boston Globe, June 6)
Thousands of American families might find it harder to qualify for financial aid this year and might be asked to contribute more money toward the cost of college because of changes to a complicated federal formula they barely know about, much less understand. (New York Times, June 6)
A record 49.6 million students filled U.S. schools in 2003, breaking a mark set by their baby boomer parents and giving educators a new generation of challenges. The growth is largely due to all the children who were born in the late 1940s to early 1960s and have since become parents themselves, said the U.S. Census Bureau. Rising immigration played a part, too, in pushing enrollment past the 1970 record of 48.7 million. (Associated Press, June 2; Boston Globe, June 3)
With almost no one noticing, New England’s $20 billion higher education industry is losing its market share thanks to shrinking populations and growing competition. Now some campuses are fighting back with sophisticated marketing straight from the corporate boardroom. (Boston Magazine, May ’05 issue)
