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Media Watch (Aug. 29 - Sept. 6, 2005)
Posted 9/7/2005
"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.
"At UofH, A Focus on Research" was the headline of a front-page story in the Aug. 30 issue of the Hartford Courant. The story profiled Louis Manzione, the new dean of the university's College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) and highlighted the opening of the new ISET complex. The story also included a photograph of Dean Manzione in the ISET building's microprocessor lab. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 30)
Additional stories on the ceremony celebrating the opening of Phase I of the Integrated Science, Engineering and Technology complex were carried in area news publications, including a front page story in the Hartford Business Journal. (Hartford Business Journal, Sept. 5; West Hartford News, Sept. 2)
Catherine Dinan, a junior at Loyola University in New Orleans and daughter of Beverly Smith, executive assistant to the dean of the Barney School of Business, was featured in a story about people who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Dinan, who has enrolled at the University of Hartford for this semester, told Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith on WTIC-AM's "Morning Show" that she is very grateful for all the support she has been given, but she is anxious to return to New Orleans. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 6; WTIC-AM, Sept. 6; WFSB-TV Channel 3, Sept. 6)
The Shultz family came to the University of Hartford to drop their daughter off to start classes as a freshman at The Hartt School and found they had nothing to go home to after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. The family, which is receiving assistance and support from faculty and staff at The Hartt School and the American Red Cross office in Farmington, was the subject of a number of media interviews. (NBC 30, Sept. 1; WTNH-TV, Sept. 1; New Britain Herald, Sept 2)
Members of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity were included in a video story on NBC 30 about Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The students were shown collecting items for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and loading them into a truck for transport to the affected areas. The students collected donated goods on Saturday and Sunday in the Konover parking lot. (NBC 30, Sept. 4; Metro Radio Networks, Sept. 4)
Saleh Keshawarz, associate professor of civil engineering in the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, was the featured guest on the Connecticut Public Television program, "Front and Center with Ray Hardman." The show, which is also broadcast on WNPR-FM, Connecticut public radio, focused on the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan's infrastructure and educational system. Keshawarz has been helping his native country in both of those endeavors. (CPTV, Sept. 2; WNPR-FM, Sept. 3)
Susan Coleman, professor of finance at the university's Barney School of Business, was quoted in a front-page Hartford Courant article about the impact of Hurricane Katrina. She warned of a "bifurcated effect" from the storm, in which two-household families with good incomes are unlikely to dramatically change spending habits, but lower-income people will find that $3-a-gallon gasoline, and its ripple effects through the economy, could change many of their spending habits. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 1)
David DesPlaces, director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at the university's Barney School of Business, was quoted in a story about a mortgage services company's plans to expand in Wallingford. He said this sends a positive message that the state is willing to support and nurture entrepreneurs and small businesses as they look to grow. (Hartford Business Journal, Sept. 5)
Kathy Manizza, a champion canoe racer who coaches track and field at the University of Hartford, is coaching a team of breast cancer survivors and employees from St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center as they paddled a 900-pound dragon boat on the Connecticut River. They are practicing for the annual Riverfront Dragon Boat Festival, which will take place on Sept. 17, beginning and ending at Riverfront Plaza in downtown Hartford. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 6)
Thomas Mahar, who is currently executive-in-residence at the University of Hartford's Barney School of Business, was one of the analysts quoted in a Hartford Courant story about the impact of Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's lawsuit against agent and broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. The lawsuit, which has since been settled, alleged that insurers, such as the Travelers and the Hartford, had secret agreements with Hilb, to pay the firm extra commissions for placing thousands more businesses and consumers with them. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 4)
Hartford Courant columnist Stan Simpson included the University High School of Science and Engineering in his story about the growth of magnet schools in the City of Hartford. "With these new magnets, Hartford is off to a helluva start in trying to meet Mayor Eddie Perez's edict to send more city kids to four-year universities. Want to start changing perceptions about the capital city? Get people talking about how impressed they are with the schools," Simpson wrote. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 31)
The exhibition, "Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture," which will open at the Joseloff Gallery on Sept. 29, was among five area exhibitions given a major preview in the "Show" section of Hartford Magazine. The exhibition focuses on designing cost-effective shelters for the poor using nontraditional materials, based on the innovative architecture and teachings of Samuel Mockbee. (Hartford Magazine, September '05 issue)
Jon Mizrachi, who studied music production at The Hartt School and also worked at the Wild Oats natural foods store, got together with friend and co-worker Dan Grenke and recently opened Lowbrow Gourmet, a small business bringing wine, beer and cheese education to the homes of regular folk, in New York. (The Forward, Sept. 2)
Other News
Enrollment at the state’s universities is growing, but not because more freshmen are going to class. Instead, transfers from other schools and students who stay in college more than four years are behind the increase. The Connecticut State University system had 23,592 full-and part-time students at its four campuses—Western, Eastern, Central and Southern. (Danbury News-Times, Aug. 30)
In a swift, compassionate and potentially problematic decision, the NCAA announced this week it would grant broad rules exemptions to schools and athletes affected by Hurricane Katrina. The NCAA says students can attend another university and still play for their own if the campus isn’t able to hold classes. (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 3)
State colleges are offering to accept students from Connecticut who were displaced from Gulf Coast universities affected by Hurricane Katrina. The four schools in the Connecticut State University system and the University of Connecticut are opening up slots for affected college students. Wesleyan University in Middletown was doing the same. And Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport extended the offer to anyone from the Northeast. (Associated Press, Sept. 2)
The Phoenix Mercury is interested in talking with Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma about a WNBA head coaching position, but haven’t made him an offer, a top team official said Monday. Reports said that Auriemma received an offer over the weekend. (Associated Press, Sept. 6)
In their zeal to keep control of UConn’s billion-dollar construction program, university officials conspired to keep problems from the public, school trustees and lawmakers, a commission that studied UConn 2000 concluded in a report released Thursday. The commission found that UConn administrators held secret meetings, kept audits critical of the program from being released and ignored recommendations on how to improve UConn 2000. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 2)
The University of Connecticut should retain control of a massive campus overhaul despite numerous fire and safety code violations, according to a commission that reported its findings to Gov. M. Jodi Rell. But the commission, formed four months ago by Rell’s order, will recommend more oversight before the university goes forward with $1.3 billion in new projects. Rell said she supports every recommendation made by the commission and will adopt some of the proposed reforms immediately and recommend others for legislative approval. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 31 and Sept. 2)
In an op-ed article, the Hartford Courant wrote that trustees and top administrators at the University of Connecticut are learning the price of abusing freedom. Gov. M. Jodi Rell put UConn’s leadership on notice that their mishandling of a gargantuan building program was unacceptable and had violated the public trust. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 4)
University of Connecticut officials said that a new dormitory with an inadequate sprinkler system is safe for students, but the school will be required to post firefighters there 24 hours a day until the problems are fixed. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 31)
Upcoming
"College Central," a program on The Golf Channel cable television network, is coming to campus on Sunday, Sept. 11, to do a feature story on the University of Hartford and its men's and women's golf teams. A representative of each team will lead the show's host on a tour of the university.
"At UofH, A Focus on Research" was the headline of a front-page story in the Aug. 30 issue of the Hartford Courant. The story profiled Louis Manzione, the new dean of the university's College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) and highlighted the opening of the new ISET complex. The story also included a photograph of Dean Manzione in the ISET building's microprocessor lab. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 30)
Additional stories on the ceremony celebrating the opening of Phase I of the Integrated Science, Engineering and Technology complex were carried in area news publications, including a front page story in the Hartford Business Journal. (Hartford Business Journal, Sept. 5; West Hartford News, Sept. 2)
Catherine Dinan, a junior at Loyola University in New Orleans and daughter of Beverly Smith, executive assistant to the dean of the Barney School of Business, was featured in a story about people who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Dinan, who has enrolled at the University of Hartford for this semester, told Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith on WTIC-AM's "Morning Show" that she is very grateful for all the support she has been given, but she is anxious to return to New Orleans. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 6; WTIC-AM, Sept. 6; WFSB-TV Channel 3, Sept. 6)
The Shultz family came to the University of Hartford to drop their daughter off to start classes as a freshman at The Hartt School and found they had nothing to go home to after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. The family, which is receiving assistance and support from faculty and staff at The Hartt School and the American Red Cross office in Farmington, was the subject of a number of media interviews. (NBC 30, Sept. 1; WTNH-TV, Sept. 1; New Britain Herald, Sept 2)
Members of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity were included in a video story on NBC 30 about Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The students were shown collecting items for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and loading them into a truck for transport to the affected areas. The students collected donated goods on Saturday and Sunday in the Konover parking lot. (NBC 30, Sept. 4; Metro Radio Networks, Sept. 4)
Saleh Keshawarz, associate professor of civil engineering in the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, was the featured guest on the Connecticut Public Television program, "Front and Center with Ray Hardman." The show, which is also broadcast on WNPR-FM, Connecticut public radio, focused on the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan's infrastructure and educational system. Keshawarz has been helping his native country in both of those endeavors. (CPTV, Sept. 2; WNPR-FM, Sept. 3)
Susan Coleman, professor of finance at the university's Barney School of Business, was quoted in a front-page Hartford Courant article about the impact of Hurricane Katrina. She warned of a "bifurcated effect" from the storm, in which two-household families with good incomes are unlikely to dramatically change spending habits, but lower-income people will find that $3-a-gallon gasoline, and its ripple effects through the economy, could change many of their spending habits. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 1)
David DesPlaces, director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at the university's Barney School of Business, was quoted in a story about a mortgage services company's plans to expand in Wallingford. He said this sends a positive message that the state is willing to support and nurture entrepreneurs and small businesses as they look to grow. (Hartford Business Journal, Sept. 5)
Kathy Manizza, a champion canoe racer who coaches track and field at the University of Hartford, is coaching a team of breast cancer survivors and employees from St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center as they paddled a 900-pound dragon boat on the Connecticut River. They are practicing for the annual Riverfront Dragon Boat Festival, which will take place on Sept. 17, beginning and ending at Riverfront Plaza in downtown Hartford. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 6)
Thomas Mahar, who is currently executive-in-residence at the University of Hartford's Barney School of Business, was one of the analysts quoted in a Hartford Courant story about the impact of Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's lawsuit against agent and broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. The lawsuit, which has since been settled, alleged that insurers, such as the Travelers and the Hartford, had secret agreements with Hilb, to pay the firm extra commissions for placing thousands more businesses and consumers with them. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 4)
Hartford Courant columnist Stan Simpson included the University High School of Science and Engineering in his story about the growth of magnet schools in the City of Hartford. "With these new magnets, Hartford is off to a helluva start in trying to meet Mayor Eddie Perez's edict to send more city kids to four-year universities. Want to start changing perceptions about the capital city? Get people talking about how impressed they are with the schools," Simpson wrote. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 31)
The exhibition, "Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture," which will open at the Joseloff Gallery on Sept. 29, was among five area exhibitions given a major preview in the "Show" section of Hartford Magazine. The exhibition focuses on designing cost-effective shelters for the poor using nontraditional materials, based on the innovative architecture and teachings of Samuel Mockbee. (Hartford Magazine, September '05 issue)
Jon Mizrachi, who studied music production at The Hartt School and also worked at the Wild Oats natural foods store, got together with friend and co-worker Dan Grenke and recently opened Lowbrow Gourmet, a small business bringing wine, beer and cheese education to the homes of regular folk, in New York. (The Forward, Sept. 2)
Other News
Enrollment at the state’s universities is growing, but not because more freshmen are going to class. Instead, transfers from other schools and students who stay in college more than four years are behind the increase. The Connecticut State University system had 23,592 full-and part-time students at its four campuses—Western, Eastern, Central and Southern. (Danbury News-Times, Aug. 30)
In a swift, compassionate and potentially problematic decision, the NCAA announced this week it would grant broad rules exemptions to schools and athletes affected by Hurricane Katrina. The NCAA says students can attend another university and still play for their own if the campus isn’t able to hold classes. (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 3)
State colleges are offering to accept students from Connecticut who were displaced from Gulf Coast universities affected by Hurricane Katrina. The four schools in the Connecticut State University system and the University of Connecticut are opening up slots for affected college students. Wesleyan University in Middletown was doing the same. And Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport extended the offer to anyone from the Northeast. (Associated Press, Sept. 2)
The Phoenix Mercury is interested in talking with Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma about a WNBA head coaching position, but haven’t made him an offer, a top team official said Monday. Reports said that Auriemma received an offer over the weekend. (Associated Press, Sept. 6)
In their zeal to keep control of UConn’s billion-dollar construction program, university officials conspired to keep problems from the public, school trustees and lawmakers, a commission that studied UConn 2000 concluded in a report released Thursday. The commission found that UConn administrators held secret meetings, kept audits critical of the program from being released and ignored recommendations on how to improve UConn 2000. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 2)
The University of Connecticut should retain control of a massive campus overhaul despite numerous fire and safety code violations, according to a commission that reported its findings to Gov. M. Jodi Rell. But the commission, formed four months ago by Rell’s order, will recommend more oversight before the university goes forward with $1.3 billion in new projects. Rell said she supports every recommendation made by the commission and will adopt some of the proposed reforms immediately and recommend others for legislative approval. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 31 and Sept. 2)
In an op-ed article, the Hartford Courant wrote that trustees and top administrators at the University of Connecticut are learning the price of abusing freedom. Gov. M. Jodi Rell put UConn’s leadership on notice that their mishandling of a gargantuan building program was unacceptable and had violated the public trust. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 4)
University of Connecticut officials said that a new dormitory with an inadequate sprinkler system is safe for students, but the school will be required to post firefighters there 24 hours a day until the problems are fixed. (Hartford Courant, Aug. 31)
Upcoming
"College Central," a program on The Golf Channel cable television network, is coming to campus on Sunday, Sept. 11, to do a feature story on the University of Hartford and its men's and women's golf teams. A representative of each team will lead the show's host on a tour of the university.
