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Media Watch (July 25 - Aug. 1, 2005)
Posted 8/2/2005
"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.
Roger Desmond, professor of communication in the College of Arts and Sciences, was the guest on “Front and Center with Ray Hardman,” a program of Connecticut Public Broadcasting. Desmond was interviewed about the impact that violent television programs and video games have on children and about efforts to teach media literacy to children. The half-hour show will also be broadcast on Connecticut Public Radio on Friday, Aug. 5. (CPTV, July 29)
President Walter Harrison, chairman of the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance, was quoted in several newspaper articles after the committee completed three days of discussions on revising the formula that will be used to calculate the Academic Progress Rate report. The APR is a figure that the NCAA will use to hold colleges and universities accountable for making sure that their student-athletes are on track to graduate. (Hartford Courant, July 28; The Mercury News, San Jose, Calif., July 30; Dallas Morning News, July 31)
Richard Freund, director of the university’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, was quoted in Northeast magazine’s cover story about the rise of Chabad movement among the Jewish population in Hartford’s suburbs. “The goals are always to lead people to practice more and more religiously,” said Freund, who teaches about Chabad and Hasidism in his lectures on Jewish mysticism and modern popular religious movements. “Since this work is so personalized, often unaffiliated Jews respond in ways that traditional modern Reform-Conservative-Orthodox synagogues with more formal structures cannot respond adequately to.” (Hartford Courant, July 31)
The Parent Power Institute, an educational program offered to parents through by the Hartford school system and hosted by the University of Hartford the past four weeks, was highlighted in an article. (Hartford Courant, July 29)
Kevin Van Aelst, who received his master of fine arts degree in May from the Hartford Art School and has an exhibition of his work on display at Real Art Ways in Hartford, was profiled. He was described by the writer as a “a minimalist artist and photographer with a maximalist sense of humor, [who] squeezes cosmic levels of meaning from edible objects – everything from Triscuits and Krispy Kreme doughnuts to chunks of Hershey chocolates and slices of Wonder Bread.” (Hartford Courant, July 29)
Jarrett Stawarz, a former standout pitcher on the Hartford Hawks baseball team and now a rookie with the New Haven County Cutters in the Can-Am League, is leading the league in earned run average with an ERA of only 2.41. He also won the Can-Am League’s Pitcher of the Week award in the week preceding the July 19 All-Star game. (Connecticut Post, July 31; Shore Line Times, Guilford, July 28)
Other News
Former Southern Connecticut State University President Michael J. Adanti was killed on July 31 in a car crash in Italy. Adanti, 64, who retired in June 2003 after serving as president for 19 years, and Ansonia lawyer William Tuccio, 64, both died in the accident. The crash occurred as Adanti, Tuccio, and their wives were traveling from their hotel to the airport at the end of a vacation on the island of Sardinia. (Associated Press, July 31; Hartford Courant, July 31)
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. is demanding the state dump the New York architect it selected to design the new Gateway Community College and award the job to a city firm. In a letter to state Public Works Commissioner James Fleming, DeStefano says New Haven architects Cesar Pelli & Associates has the “creativity and vision and understanding of downtown” to best create the campus. (New Haven Register, July 25)
With a new staff in place, Fairfield University officials agreed to allow a swimming camp, hit with allegations of drunken counselors, to remain on campus. A university spokeswoman said the counselors’ supervisor, who was not a university employee, had been escorted off campus when the allegations came to light. Discipline for those counselors who were students will be handled through the university’s student conduct process for violating school rules. (Connecticut Post, July 26)
The University of Connecticut altered the height of a dormitory to avoid a state inspection that might have slowed construction, university officials acknowledged. The state’s building inspector charged that Uconn failed to notify the state that two new university buildings were large enough to require state inspections and that fire code violations at two other student-housing complexes were more serious than officials have acknowledged. (Hartford Courant, July 27)
In a “Northeast” magazine article, Kevin Rennie wrote that the Connecticut Culinary Institute in Farmington had plans to provide $2,750 in free food for Lt. Kevin Sullivan’s event on Block Island as part of a legislative conference at Mohegan Sun. The institute’s spokeswoman, Brooke Baran, is Sullivan’s former press secretary and the daughter of Bradley Baran, president and owner of the for-profit school. Sullivan had requested the donation and Democrats in the legislature included $3.5 million in property improvements for the school in this year’s bond package. (Hartford Courant, July 31)
MAK Scientific, a start-up company with four employees at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, is trying to develop new drugs to treat pain and obesity. The company, that occupies two small labs in Uconn’s new biotechnology building, is Connecticut’s first business incubator on a college campus and one of a few incubator slots designed for high-tech companies. (Hartford Courant, July 31)
The only black member of the Harvard Corporation, the university’s seven-member governing board, said that he was resigning over disagreements with Harvard’s president, Lawrence H. Summers. (New York Times, July 29)
In a case watched closely by universities across the country, a Middlesex Superior Court judge has ruled that the parents of an MIT student who committed suicide at the college in 2000 can proceed with their $27 million lawsuit against college administrators and staff, a decision some higher education officials say is unusually expansive and alarming. (Boston Globe, July 30)
A coaltion of organizations, led by the Business Roundtable, is pushing for math and science education. The business coalition aims to convince policymakers and the public that America’s place in the world is at stake – “the leadership of our country, our ability to compete on a global basis, and our ability to create jobs for American workers,” said John Castellani, president of the Business Roundtable. (CNN.com, July 26)
Roger Desmond, professor of communication in the College of Arts and Sciences, was the guest on “Front and Center with Ray Hardman,” a program of Connecticut Public Broadcasting. Desmond was interviewed about the impact that violent television programs and video games have on children and about efforts to teach media literacy to children. The half-hour show will also be broadcast on Connecticut Public Radio on Friday, Aug. 5. (CPTV, July 29)
President Walter Harrison, chairman of the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance, was quoted in several newspaper articles after the committee completed three days of discussions on revising the formula that will be used to calculate the Academic Progress Rate report. The APR is a figure that the NCAA will use to hold colleges and universities accountable for making sure that their student-athletes are on track to graduate. (Hartford Courant, July 28; The Mercury News, San Jose, Calif., July 30; Dallas Morning News, July 31)
Richard Freund, director of the university’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, was quoted in Northeast magazine’s cover story about the rise of Chabad movement among the Jewish population in Hartford’s suburbs. “The goals are always to lead people to practice more and more religiously,” said Freund, who teaches about Chabad and Hasidism in his lectures on Jewish mysticism and modern popular religious movements. “Since this work is so personalized, often unaffiliated Jews respond in ways that traditional modern Reform-Conservative-Orthodox synagogues with more formal structures cannot respond adequately to.” (Hartford Courant, July 31)
The Parent Power Institute, an educational program offered to parents through by the Hartford school system and hosted by the University of Hartford the past four weeks, was highlighted in an article. (Hartford Courant, July 29)
Kevin Van Aelst, who received his master of fine arts degree in May from the Hartford Art School and has an exhibition of his work on display at Real Art Ways in Hartford, was profiled. He was described by the writer as a “a minimalist artist and photographer with a maximalist sense of humor, [who] squeezes cosmic levels of meaning from edible objects – everything from Triscuits and Krispy Kreme doughnuts to chunks of Hershey chocolates and slices of Wonder Bread.” (Hartford Courant, July 29)
Jarrett Stawarz, a former standout pitcher on the Hartford Hawks baseball team and now a rookie with the New Haven County Cutters in the Can-Am League, is leading the league in earned run average with an ERA of only 2.41. He also won the Can-Am League’s Pitcher of the Week award in the week preceding the July 19 All-Star game. (Connecticut Post, July 31; Shore Line Times, Guilford, July 28)
Other News
Former Southern Connecticut State University President Michael J. Adanti was killed on July 31 in a car crash in Italy. Adanti, 64, who retired in June 2003 after serving as president for 19 years, and Ansonia lawyer William Tuccio, 64, both died in the accident. The crash occurred as Adanti, Tuccio, and their wives were traveling from their hotel to the airport at the end of a vacation on the island of Sardinia. (Associated Press, July 31; Hartford Courant, July 31)
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. is demanding the state dump the New York architect it selected to design the new Gateway Community College and award the job to a city firm. In a letter to state Public Works Commissioner James Fleming, DeStefano says New Haven architects Cesar Pelli & Associates has the “creativity and vision and understanding of downtown” to best create the campus. (New Haven Register, July 25)
With a new staff in place, Fairfield University officials agreed to allow a swimming camp, hit with allegations of drunken counselors, to remain on campus. A university spokeswoman said the counselors’ supervisor, who was not a university employee, had been escorted off campus when the allegations came to light. Discipline for those counselors who were students will be handled through the university’s student conduct process for violating school rules. (Connecticut Post, July 26)
The University of Connecticut altered the height of a dormitory to avoid a state inspection that might have slowed construction, university officials acknowledged. The state’s building inspector charged that Uconn failed to notify the state that two new university buildings were large enough to require state inspections and that fire code violations at two other student-housing complexes were more serious than officials have acknowledged. (Hartford Courant, July 27)
In a “Northeast” magazine article, Kevin Rennie wrote that the Connecticut Culinary Institute in Farmington had plans to provide $2,750 in free food for Lt. Kevin Sullivan’s event on Block Island as part of a legislative conference at Mohegan Sun. The institute’s spokeswoman, Brooke Baran, is Sullivan’s former press secretary and the daughter of Bradley Baran, president and owner of the for-profit school. Sullivan had requested the donation and Democrats in the legislature included $3.5 million in property improvements for the school in this year’s bond package. (Hartford Courant, July 31)
MAK Scientific, a start-up company with four employees at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, is trying to develop new drugs to treat pain and obesity. The company, that occupies two small labs in Uconn’s new biotechnology building, is Connecticut’s first business incubator on a college campus and one of a few incubator slots designed for high-tech companies. (Hartford Courant, July 31)
The only black member of the Harvard Corporation, the university’s seven-member governing board, said that he was resigning over disagreements with Harvard’s president, Lawrence H. Summers. (New York Times, July 29)
In a case watched closely by universities across the country, a Middlesex Superior Court judge has ruled that the parents of an MIT student who committed suicide at the college in 2000 can proceed with their $27 million lawsuit against college administrators and staff, a decision some higher education officials say is unusually expansive and alarming. (Boston Globe, July 30)
A coaltion of organizations, led by the Business Roundtable, is pushing for math and science education. The business coalition aims to convince policymakers and the public that America’s place in the world is at stake – “the leadership of our country, our ability to compete on a global basis, and our ability to create jobs for American workers,” said John Castellani, president of the Business Roundtable. (CNN.com, July 26)
