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Media Watch (Sept. 6-12, 2005)
Posted 9/13/2005
"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.
Associate Professor Jilda Aliotta, chair of the Department of Politics and Government in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in two front-page articles by the Hartford Courant’s Washington bureau chief. One story looked at the pressure on President Bush to nominate a minority candidate to fill the seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and the other looked at the scrutiny that Chief Justice nominee John Roberts will face when his confirmation hearings begin this week. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 7 and 8)
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, said she misses New Orleans but is very appreciative of all the efforts made by the University of Hartford and others on behalf of the hurricane’s victims. (Wethersfield Post, Sept. 8)
The “Accolades” section of the Hartford Business Journal included a mention of a $24,000 gift to the university’s Hartford Scholars program by Citigroup Foundation. Through this program, any eligible graduate of a public high school in Hartford can attend the University of Hartford at half-tuition. (Hartford Business Journal, Sept. 5)
Retired University of Hartford staff member and photographer Jeff Feldmann presented “The Connecticut River: A Photographic Journey,” on Sept. 10 at White Memorial Conservation Center in Litchfield. “I’ve been kayaking for 10 years, but it wasn’t until seven years ago that I first kayaked the Connecticut River, and I fell in love with it,” said Feldmann. He first presented the program last October, when University of Hartford professor of sociology Renwick Griswold approached him to present it to his class. (Litchfield Enquirer, Sept. 12)
Hollywood Producer Kent McCray has a storied career as a television producer that began with the medium’s first live broadcasts and culminated with co-creating such classic series as “Little House on the Prairie” and “Highway to Heaven.” McCray, who has lived in Malibu for the past 25 years with his wife and business partner, Susan McCray, will be honored for his contribution to the history of television with the opening on Sept. 15 of the Kent McCray Television Studio on the University of Hartford. (Malibu Surfside News, Sept. 1)
Adam Davis, who earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and Spanish from the University of Hartford, was profiled for his efforts to help turn young adults into readers. Davis is working as reference and young adult librarian at the Delray Beach Public Library. (Palm Beach Post, Sept. 7)
Dave Wenzel, who graduated from the university’s Hartford Art School and now does paintings and illustrates children’s books (and creates editorial cartoons), was interviewed for a story about his band, The British Beats. The British Beats are a Beatles tribute band and Wenzel plays George Harrison on lead guitar. (Town Times, Sept. 9)
Lacey Bartlett, who graduated from the University of Hartford as a theater major and has had a run with the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, was featured in a story for her work as an instructor at the Stonington Human Services’ Acting Bug program at the Stonington Community Center. (Shore Publishing, Sept. 9)
Jarrett Stawarz, a right-handed pitcher for the New Haven County Cutters, was named the Can-Am League’s “Rookie Pitcher of the Year” on Sept. 8. The University of Hartford alum went 9-7 this season with a 4.58 earned run average. His nine victories tied for the team lead and he was second among Cutters pitchesr in strikeouts with 70 in 90.1 innings pitched. (OurSportsCentral.com, Sept. 9; New Haven Register, Sept. 11; Connecticut Post, Sept. 11)
Bill Drohan, a 1995 graduate of the university’s Barney School of Business, was profiled in the Boston Globe as “one of the top amateur golfers in New England.” Drohan, who enrolled at the university in 1991 on a golf scholarship, earned a business degree with a major in marketing. After working in his field and traveling for several years, he has returned to his hometown (Haverhill, Mass.) and changed careers, working as a high school math teacher. (Boston Globe, Sept. 11)
Other News
Goodwin College president Mark Scheinberg presented the college's master plan to the East Hartford planning and zoning commission. The plan includes the development of 250-300 acres stretching from the Putnam Bridge in Glastonbury to the Charter Oak Bridge in East Hartford. Plans show a lighthouse-themed learning "beacon." (East Hartford Gazette, Sept. 8)
Thousands of college students from around the globe will take classes this school year in Connecticut, which has seen its foreign student-body nearly double in past 10 years. During the 2003-04 federal fiscal year, 9,718 foreigners were admitted in the United States with the intention of studying in Connecticut, compared with 5,746 student visas approved in 1993-94, according to the Office of Immigration Statistics at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (Stamford Advocate, Sept. 11)
Before cancer kills him, University of Connecticut scientist Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang is determined to create human embryonic stem cells by cloning and see those cells implanted in a patient. To achieve his goal, Yang will have to overcome institutional caution, and address the ethical and religious concerns of many. He also will have to outrun his own cancer, which has moved from his face to both lungs. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 12)
For the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck, classes resumed this week at Louisiana State University, with the campus now home to an additional 2,300 students who were displaced from colleges in New Orleans and surrounding areas. In addition to accepting displaced students, university officials also took on the challenge of housing and managing the largest field hospital in the United States. (CNN, Sept. 8)
The most exclusive universities in the U.S., including the eight Ivy League schools, plan to waive fees and speed the admissions process for more than 500 students who fled the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities plan to admit 25 undergraduates temporarily from those areas, according to press releases on their Web sites. (Bloomberg, Sept. 9)
Michigan State University plans to open an office in China by February and could make other investments to boost its foreign presence. The new China office will aid the university's efforts to improve food safety, economic development and educational efforts in the world's most populated nation, said Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon. (Associated Press, Sept. 6)
Straight-laced Pacific University may be loosening up a bit. The newest member of its board of trustees is Tommy Thayer, the lead guitarist of KISS, the 1970s heavy metal band known for its elaborate makeup and costumes, and stadium pyrotechnics. (The Oregonian, Sept. 7)
Associate Professor Jilda Aliotta, chair of the Department of Politics and Government in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in two front-page articles by the Hartford Courant’s Washington bureau chief. One story looked at the pressure on President Bush to nominate a minority candidate to fill the seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and the other looked at the scrutiny that Chief Justice nominee John Roberts will face when his confirmation hearings begin this week. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 7 and 8)
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, said she misses New Orleans but is very appreciative of all the efforts made by the University of Hartford and others on behalf of the hurricane’s victims. (Wethersfield Post, Sept. 8)
The “Accolades” section of the Hartford Business Journal included a mention of a $24,000 gift to the university’s Hartford Scholars program by Citigroup Foundation. Through this program, any eligible graduate of a public high school in Hartford can attend the University of Hartford at half-tuition. (Hartford Business Journal, Sept. 5)
Retired University of Hartford staff member and photographer Jeff Feldmann presented “The Connecticut River: A Photographic Journey,” on Sept. 10 at White Memorial Conservation Center in Litchfield. “I’ve been kayaking for 10 years, but it wasn’t until seven years ago that I first kayaked the Connecticut River, and I fell in love with it,” said Feldmann. He first presented the program last October, when University of Hartford professor of sociology Renwick Griswold approached him to present it to his class. (Litchfield Enquirer, Sept. 12)
Hollywood Producer Kent McCray has a storied career as a television producer that began with the medium’s first live broadcasts and culminated with co-creating such classic series as “Little House on the Prairie” and “Highway to Heaven.” McCray, who has lived in Malibu for the past 25 years with his wife and business partner, Susan McCray, will be honored for his contribution to the history of television with the opening on Sept. 15 of the Kent McCray Television Studio on the University of Hartford. (Malibu Surfside News, Sept. 1)
Adam Davis, who earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and Spanish from the University of Hartford, was profiled for his efforts to help turn young adults into readers. Davis is working as reference and young adult librarian at the Delray Beach Public Library. (Palm Beach Post, Sept. 7)
Dave Wenzel, who graduated from the university’s Hartford Art School and now does paintings and illustrates children’s books (and creates editorial cartoons), was interviewed for a story about his band, The British Beats. The British Beats are a Beatles tribute band and Wenzel plays George Harrison on lead guitar. (Town Times, Sept. 9)
Lacey Bartlett, who graduated from the University of Hartford as a theater major and has had a run with the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, was featured in a story for her work as an instructor at the Stonington Human Services’ Acting Bug program at the Stonington Community Center. (Shore Publishing, Sept. 9)
Jarrett Stawarz, a right-handed pitcher for the New Haven County Cutters, was named the Can-Am League’s “Rookie Pitcher of the Year” on Sept. 8. The University of Hartford alum went 9-7 this season with a 4.58 earned run average. His nine victories tied for the team lead and he was second among Cutters pitchesr in strikeouts with 70 in 90.1 innings pitched. (OurSportsCentral.com, Sept. 9; New Haven Register, Sept. 11; Connecticut Post, Sept. 11)
Bill Drohan, a 1995 graduate of the university’s Barney School of Business, was profiled in the Boston Globe as “one of the top amateur golfers in New England.” Drohan, who enrolled at the university in 1991 on a golf scholarship, earned a business degree with a major in marketing. After working in his field and traveling for several years, he has returned to his hometown (Haverhill, Mass.) and changed careers, working as a high school math teacher. (Boston Globe, Sept. 11)
Other News
Goodwin College president Mark Scheinberg presented the college's master plan to the East Hartford planning and zoning commission. The plan includes the development of 250-300 acres stretching from the Putnam Bridge in Glastonbury to the Charter Oak Bridge in East Hartford. Plans show a lighthouse-themed learning "beacon." (East Hartford Gazette, Sept. 8)
Thousands of college students from around the globe will take classes this school year in Connecticut, which has seen its foreign student-body nearly double in past 10 years. During the 2003-04 federal fiscal year, 9,718 foreigners were admitted in the United States with the intention of studying in Connecticut, compared with 5,746 student visas approved in 1993-94, according to the Office of Immigration Statistics at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (Stamford Advocate, Sept. 11)
Before cancer kills him, University of Connecticut scientist Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang is determined to create human embryonic stem cells by cloning and see those cells implanted in a patient. To achieve his goal, Yang will have to overcome institutional caution, and address the ethical and religious concerns of many. He also will have to outrun his own cancer, which has moved from his face to both lungs. (Hartford Courant, Sept. 12)
For the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck, classes resumed this week at Louisiana State University, with the campus now home to an additional 2,300 students who were displaced from colleges in New Orleans and surrounding areas. In addition to accepting displaced students, university officials also took on the challenge of housing and managing the largest field hospital in the United States. (CNN, Sept. 8)
The most exclusive universities in the U.S., including the eight Ivy League schools, plan to waive fees and speed the admissions process for more than 500 students who fled the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities plan to admit 25 undergraduates temporarily from those areas, according to press releases on their Web sites. (Bloomberg, Sept. 9)
Michigan State University plans to open an office in China by February and could make other investments to boost its foreign presence. The new China office will aid the university's efforts to improve food safety, economic development and educational efforts in the world's most populated nation, said Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon. (Associated Press, Sept. 6)
Straight-laced Pacific University may be loosening up a bit. The newest member of its board of trustees is Tommy Thayer, the lead guitarist of KISS, the 1970s heavy metal band known for its elaborate makeup and costumes, and stadium pyrotechnics. (The Oregonian, Sept. 7)
