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Media Watch (Aug. 15-22, 2005)
Posted 8/23/2005
“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.
An article in the “Place” segment of the Hartford Courant “Commentary” section focused on a project undertaken by University of Hartford architecture students to explore the idea of expanding the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art by using the nearby Hartford Times building. The design project was part of the university’s new graduate program in architecture, headed by Kendra Schank Smith, who arrived in January as the new chair of the department. In the article, author Michael Crosbie of Essex, an architect, writer, and member of the "Place" board of contributors, outlined the proposals of several of the students. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 21)
In a sidebar to a front-page profile of Pilot Pen tennis tournament director Anne Worcester, the Hartford Courant listed the “Most Influential Women In State’s Sports Scene.” Included prominently on the list were University of Hartford Athletics Director Pat Meiser-McKnett and Hartford Hawks women’s basketball coach Jennifer Rizzotti. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 22)
David Katz, a Boston-based real estate developer and a 1998 graduate of the university’s Barney School of Business, was featured in the Hartford Business Journal for his plan to redevelop the Unity Church of Hartford property on Farmington Ave. in West Hartford into condominiums for young professionals and empty-nesters. (Hartford Business Journal, Aug. 22)
The Bloomfield Planning and Zoning Commission recently established the Bloomfield Center Design Committee, which will develop standards for commercial and municipal building fronts in the center of town. The town created the committee in conjunction with the 12-month study on Bloomfield center completed last year by town representatives and students from the University of Hartford. (Bloomfield Journal, Aug. 19)
Rosalyn Dischiavo, director of the Connections Wellness Center at the university, was interviewed by the Hartford Courant for a story about a three-year $1 million grant to the center. The grant will enable the university to help about 900 students over the three years. The students will be those who are caught violating University alcohol policies, especially those students with a pattern of binge drinking, Dischiavo said. (Hartford Courant, Aug.16)
The Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team left for a trip to Italy on Aug. 19 and the trip was previewed in the Hartford Courant sports section. “It’s one of those trips every school takes, a great opportunity the NCAA gives you every four years to practice out of season. It’s educational and a great recruiting tool,” said Coach Jen Rizzotti of the nine days of games, practices and sightseeing the team will have. (Hartford Courant, Aug.17)
Preview articles about the Buick Championship golf tournament, being held at the TPC River Highlands course in Cromwell Aug. 25-28, highlighted university alums Jerry Kelly, Tim Petrovic, and Patrick Sheehan, who will all being playing. One article noted that the University of Hartford is one of only seven schools to have three players from the same team play on the PGA Tour. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 21)
Other News
On the same day that University of Connecticut officials disclosed fire code problems at yet another student dormitory (the Charter Oak Apartments, where more than 500 students live), the commission reviewing the Uconn 2000 construction program began drafting recommendations to remove some control of the $2.3 billion project from the university. Uconn was given autonomy under special legislation passed in the mid-1990s to run the building program. There are indications the commission, which has until Sept. 1 to submit its report, will recommend that Gov. M. Jodi Rell and legislators strip some of that control. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 18)
The U.S. national men’s soccer team spent a couple of days at Trinity College in training as part of its preparations for a World Cup qualifying match against Trinidad & Tobago on Aug. 17 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. (New York Times, Aug. 17)
Bristol Mayor Gerard Couture announced on Aug. 16 that Tunxis Community College officials have told him they’re interested in moving the school’s Bristol Career Center and becoming a tenant in the complex of buildings proposed for the site of a failing downtown mall. The community college is running out of space at its current building at Route 6 and North Main Street, and the lease there is expiring in about four years, Couture said. (Hartford Courant , Aug. 17)
About $30,000 worth of computer and photography equipment was stolen on Aug. 19 from the offices of the University of Connecticut’s Daily Campus student newspaper, but its editor vowed it would resume publication as scheduled after the summer break on Wednesday, Aug. 31. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 20)
Some colleges have decided to provide students with access to online music stores. The online downloading companies, meanwhile, have made this option appealing by offering discounts to colleges and universities. Cdigix, the largest of the music downloading companies, with a digital library of 1.7 million tracks, now has contracts with 24 colleges, including Yale University, Duke University, and many California schools--up from three in 2004. (MediaPost.com, Aug. 22)
College students are expected to head back to campus in the coming weeks with more new laptop computers, iPods, upgraded cell phones, digital tape recorders, graphing calculators, televisions and more. They — and their parents — plan to spend $8.2 billion on electronics, $700 million more than last year, according to a study released on Aug. 16 by the National Retail Federation. (USA Today, Aug. 16)
Once just a weighty tome, the college textbook has evolved into a package including text, colorful supplements and software. But those bells and whistles – which critics and many students call unnecessary – are the main reason textbook prices are rising at more than twice the rate of inflation, according to the Government Accountability Office, in a study released on Aug. 16. The GAO found that the average student spends nearly $900 on textbooks and supplies, or 26 percent of tuition and fees per year at typical public four-year colleges, and textbook prices have increased 186 percent since 1986, or about 6 percent per year. (Boston Globe, Aug. 16)
Colleagues lauded University of Vermont anthropology professor James B. Petersen, who was killed while on a research project in the Amazon rain forest. As he dined with colleagues at a restaurant, Petersen, 51, was fatally shot in a robbery by three men high on cocaine, according to Brazilian police. The robbers stole a cell phone and about $200 in local currency. (Boston Globe, Aug. 16)
An article in the “Place” segment of the Hartford Courant “Commentary” section focused on a project undertaken by University of Hartford architecture students to explore the idea of expanding the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art by using the nearby Hartford Times building. The design project was part of the university’s new graduate program in architecture, headed by Kendra Schank Smith, who arrived in January as the new chair of the department. In the article, author Michael Crosbie of Essex, an architect, writer, and member of the "Place" board of contributors, outlined the proposals of several of the students. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 21)
In a sidebar to a front-page profile of Pilot Pen tennis tournament director Anne Worcester, the Hartford Courant listed the “Most Influential Women In State’s Sports Scene.” Included prominently on the list were University of Hartford Athletics Director Pat Meiser-McKnett and Hartford Hawks women’s basketball coach Jennifer Rizzotti. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 22)
David Katz, a Boston-based real estate developer and a 1998 graduate of the university’s Barney School of Business, was featured in the Hartford Business Journal for his plan to redevelop the Unity Church of Hartford property on Farmington Ave. in West Hartford into condominiums for young professionals and empty-nesters. (Hartford Business Journal, Aug. 22)
The Bloomfield Planning and Zoning Commission recently established the Bloomfield Center Design Committee, which will develop standards for commercial and municipal building fronts in the center of town. The town created the committee in conjunction with the 12-month study on Bloomfield center completed last year by town representatives and students from the University of Hartford. (Bloomfield Journal, Aug. 19)
Rosalyn Dischiavo, director of the Connections Wellness Center at the university, was interviewed by the Hartford Courant for a story about a three-year $1 million grant to the center. The grant will enable the university to help about 900 students over the three years. The students will be those who are caught violating University alcohol policies, especially those students with a pattern of binge drinking, Dischiavo said. (Hartford Courant, Aug.16)
The Hartford Hawks women’s basketball team left for a trip to Italy on Aug. 19 and the trip was previewed in the Hartford Courant sports section. “It’s one of those trips every school takes, a great opportunity the NCAA gives you every four years to practice out of season. It’s educational and a great recruiting tool,” said Coach Jen Rizzotti of the nine days of games, practices and sightseeing the team will have. (Hartford Courant, Aug.17)
Preview articles about the Buick Championship golf tournament, being held at the TPC River Highlands course in Cromwell Aug. 25-28, highlighted university alums Jerry Kelly, Tim Petrovic, and Patrick Sheehan, who will all being playing. One article noted that the University of Hartford is one of only seven schools to have three players from the same team play on the PGA Tour. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 21)
Other News
On the same day that University of Connecticut officials disclosed fire code problems at yet another student dormitory (the Charter Oak Apartments, where more than 500 students live), the commission reviewing the Uconn 2000 construction program began drafting recommendations to remove some control of the $2.3 billion project from the university. Uconn was given autonomy under special legislation passed in the mid-1990s to run the building program. There are indications the commission, which has until Sept. 1 to submit its report, will recommend that Gov. M. Jodi Rell and legislators strip some of that control. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 18)
The U.S. national men’s soccer team spent a couple of days at Trinity College in training as part of its preparations for a World Cup qualifying match against Trinidad & Tobago on Aug. 17 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. (New York Times, Aug. 17)
Bristol Mayor Gerard Couture announced on Aug. 16 that Tunxis Community College officials have told him they’re interested in moving the school’s Bristol Career Center and becoming a tenant in the complex of buildings proposed for the site of a failing downtown mall. The community college is running out of space at its current building at Route 6 and North Main Street, and the lease there is expiring in about four years, Couture said. (Hartford Courant , Aug. 17)
About $30,000 worth of computer and photography equipment was stolen on Aug. 19 from the offices of the University of Connecticut’s Daily Campus student newspaper, but its editor vowed it would resume publication as scheduled after the summer break on Wednesday, Aug. 31. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 20)
Some colleges have decided to provide students with access to online music stores. The online downloading companies, meanwhile, have made this option appealing by offering discounts to colleges and universities. Cdigix, the largest of the music downloading companies, with a digital library of 1.7 million tracks, now has contracts with 24 colleges, including Yale University, Duke University, and many California schools--up from three in 2004. (MediaPost.com, Aug. 22)
College students are expected to head back to campus in the coming weeks with more new laptop computers, iPods, upgraded cell phones, digital tape recorders, graphing calculators, televisions and more. They — and their parents — plan to spend $8.2 billion on electronics, $700 million more than last year, according to a study released on Aug. 16 by the National Retail Federation. (USA Today, Aug. 16)
Once just a weighty tome, the college textbook has evolved into a package including text, colorful supplements and software. But those bells and whistles – which critics and many students call unnecessary – are the main reason textbook prices are rising at more than twice the rate of inflation, according to the Government Accountability Office, in a study released on Aug. 16. The GAO found that the average student spends nearly $900 on textbooks and supplies, or 26 percent of tuition and fees per year at typical public four-year colleges, and textbook prices have increased 186 percent since 1986, or about 6 percent per year. (Boston Globe, Aug. 16)
Colleagues lauded University of Vermont anthropology professor James B. Petersen, who was killed while on a research project in the Amazon rain forest. As he dined with colleagues at a restaurant, Petersen, 51, was fatally shot in a robbery by three men high on cocaine, according to Brazilian police. The robbers stole a cell phone and about $200 in local currency. (Boston Globe, Aug. 16)
