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Media Watch (Nov. 7-14, 2005)
Posted 11/15/2005
"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, chairman of the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance (CAP), spoke at a meeting of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics on Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C. He was speaking about the NCAA’s new Graduation Success Rate measurement, which it will use in place of the federal graduation rate and which will be announced next month. (Inside Higher Ed.com, Nov. 9; Ascribe newswire, Nov. 8)
Comments by President Harrison, who also serves as chairman of the NCAA Executive Committee, were included in an Inside Higher Ed.com story about how two institutions – Carthage College and Midwestern State University – were removed from the NCAA’s list of colleges deemed to have “hostile” Native American nicknames after they abandoned or altered the names and other icons that the NCAA had found offensive. (Inside Higher Ed.com, Nov. 10; Seattle Times, Nov. 7)
Harald Sandstrom, associate professor of politics and government in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a guest on the “Brad Davis Show” on WDRC-AM. He was interviewed about the causes of the recent rioting in France. (WDRC-AM, Nov. 10)
University of Hartford junior Julie Shiller’s opinion article in the “Fresh Voices” section of the Hartford Courant’s “Opinion” page generated a lot of response in the Courant’s letters section after its Nov. 5 publication. A letter in support of Shiller’s opinion was written by Nels Highberg, assistant professor of Rhetoric, Language and Culture and Shiller’s instructor in the course for which she originally wrote the article. High reader response to the piece was noted in a weblog by Hartford Courant Reader Representative Karen Hunter. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8 and Nov. 14)
President Walter Harrison wrote about a holiday season memory for a collection of memories by Connecticut celebrities that was published in Connecticut Life magazine’s “Holiday Life” section. (Connecticut Life, November ’05 issue)
Barney School of Business students who are taking part in a program to assist small business owners in East Granby with their efforts to grow their businesses were featured in a story in the November issue of Business Times magazine. (Business Times, November ’05 issue)
Hillyer College alum Darius Mehri, who was recently on campus to promote the publication of his first book, Notes from Toyota-Land: An American Engineer in Japan, had his book favorably reviewed by the prestigious Far Eastern Economic Review. Mehri’s interview with Ray Hardman of WNPR was broadcast on Nov. 7. (Far Eastern Economic Review, October ’05 issue; WNPR-FM, Nov. 7)
The Nov. 12 “Songs For Africa” benefit concert at the university, which was raising funds to help alleviate the suffering of survivors of the genocide that has taken place in the Darfur region of Sudan, and to help local communities in Tanzania, was previewed in the Hartford Advocate and the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Advocate, Nov. 10; Hartford Courant, Nov. 10)
In its special college basketball preseason preview supplement, the Hartford Courant did major profiles of Rich Baker and Danielle Wexler of the Hartford Hawks men’s and women’s basketball teams. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 10)
PGA Tour pro Patrick Sheehan, a University of Hartford alum, finished the season among the top 125 money-winners on the tour, earning $675,038 this year, meaning he will retain his PGA tour card for next year. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8)
Former Hartford Hawks basketball star and NBA All-Star Vin Baker is scheduled to open his new restaurant, Vinnie’s Saybrook Fish House, on Nov. 30. Baker, who recently bought out his contract with the Houston Rockets, noted that the Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers and several other teams have expressed interest in Baker. As a free agent, he will likely talk with a number of teams before deciding whether he wants to return to pro basketball after the all-star break in February or for the 2006-07 season. (Old Saybrook Pictorial Gazette, Nov. 8)
The National Lacrosse League’s Calgary Roughnecks announced that the club has re-signed forward Tracey Kelusky to a one-year contract. Kelusky, a Hartford Hawks standout, returns for his sixth NLL season and his fourth with Calgary. The veteran has served as the Roughnecks captain since 2003 and has earned All-Pro honors every season of his career. (OurSports Central.com, Nov. 9)
Other News
The University of Connecticut plans to move the schools of family studies and allied health into other schools and restructure the College of Continuing Studies next summer. Provost Peter J. Nicholls will present his proposal to the board of trustees on Nov. 15. Faculty, staff and alumni said they were disappointed they were not consulted during the decision-making process. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 11)
Students in the Kalamazoo School District in Michigan will soon go to college for free. A group of anonymous donors have offered to pay up to 100 percent of tuition and fees for Kalamazoo district graduates at any Michigan public college or university staring in 2006. (Detroit News-Times, Nov. 11)
Albert Salame is developing WestConn Park in Danbury where he would rent laboratory space to bio-science and technology companies. WestConn Park would also be a research park where students and professors at Western Connecticut State University could further their education. (The News-Times, Danbury, Nov. 14)
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, criticized earlier this year for saying that women might lack the aptitude to excel in science and engineering, said the number of tenure offers to female professors increased for the first time since he took office in 2001. Of the 33 offers for tenure made by Harvard’s College of Arts and Sciences in the 2004–05 academic year, 27 percent were to women. That is up from 12 percent the previous year. (Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 10)
The School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut has been reaccredited for a full 10-year term by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. The accreditation team gave the school’s bachelor’s degree and master’s degree programs solid marks in several areas ranging from faculty qualifications to resources provided to students. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8)
If current trends continue, the percentage of workers with college degrees will decline over the next 15 years, and that will drive personal income and tax revenues down, says a study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. New York is among the states that would be the most severely affected, along with Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Illinois, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico, says the report. (Gannett News Service, Nov. 9)
Experts say this year’s college freshman class and the rest of the millennial generation are ill-equipped for the compromises and negotiations required for living in such close quarters, with increasing numbers turning to their parents for solutions. (Indianapolis Star, Nov. 8; Seattle Times, Nov. 8)
President Walter Harrison, chairman of the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance (CAP), spoke at a meeting of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics on Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C. He was speaking about the NCAA’s new Graduation Success Rate measurement, which it will use in place of the federal graduation rate and which will be announced next month. (Inside Higher Ed.com, Nov. 9; Ascribe newswire, Nov. 8)
Comments by President Harrison, who also serves as chairman of the NCAA Executive Committee, were included in an Inside Higher Ed.com story about how two institutions – Carthage College and Midwestern State University – were removed from the NCAA’s list of colleges deemed to have “hostile” Native American nicknames after they abandoned or altered the names and other icons that the NCAA had found offensive. (Inside Higher Ed.com, Nov. 10; Seattle Times, Nov. 7)
Harald Sandstrom, associate professor of politics and government in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a guest on the “Brad Davis Show” on WDRC-AM. He was interviewed about the causes of the recent rioting in France. (WDRC-AM, Nov. 10)
University of Hartford junior Julie Shiller’s opinion article in the “Fresh Voices” section of the Hartford Courant’s “Opinion” page generated a lot of response in the Courant’s letters section after its Nov. 5 publication. A letter in support of Shiller’s opinion was written by Nels Highberg, assistant professor of Rhetoric, Language and Culture and Shiller’s instructor in the course for which she originally wrote the article. High reader response to the piece was noted in a weblog by Hartford Courant Reader Representative Karen Hunter. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8 and Nov. 14)
President Walter Harrison wrote about a holiday season memory for a collection of memories by Connecticut celebrities that was published in Connecticut Life magazine’s “Holiday Life” section. (Connecticut Life, November ’05 issue)
Barney School of Business students who are taking part in a program to assist small business owners in East Granby with their efforts to grow their businesses were featured in a story in the November issue of Business Times magazine. (Business Times, November ’05 issue)
Hillyer College alum Darius Mehri, who was recently on campus to promote the publication of his first book, Notes from Toyota-Land: An American Engineer in Japan, had his book favorably reviewed by the prestigious Far Eastern Economic Review. Mehri’s interview with Ray Hardman of WNPR was broadcast on Nov. 7. (Far Eastern Economic Review, October ’05 issue; WNPR-FM, Nov. 7)
The Nov. 12 “Songs For Africa” benefit concert at the university, which was raising funds to help alleviate the suffering of survivors of the genocide that has taken place in the Darfur region of Sudan, and to help local communities in Tanzania, was previewed in the Hartford Advocate and the Hartford Courant. (Hartford Advocate, Nov. 10; Hartford Courant, Nov. 10)
In its special college basketball preseason preview supplement, the Hartford Courant did major profiles of Rich Baker and Danielle Wexler of the Hartford Hawks men’s and women’s basketball teams. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 10)
PGA Tour pro Patrick Sheehan, a University of Hartford alum, finished the season among the top 125 money-winners on the tour, earning $675,038 this year, meaning he will retain his PGA tour card for next year. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8)
Former Hartford Hawks basketball star and NBA All-Star Vin Baker is scheduled to open his new restaurant, Vinnie’s Saybrook Fish House, on Nov. 30. Baker, who recently bought out his contract with the Houston Rockets, noted that the Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers and several other teams have expressed interest in Baker. As a free agent, he will likely talk with a number of teams before deciding whether he wants to return to pro basketball after the all-star break in February or for the 2006-07 season. (Old Saybrook Pictorial Gazette, Nov. 8)
The National Lacrosse League’s Calgary Roughnecks announced that the club has re-signed forward Tracey Kelusky to a one-year contract. Kelusky, a Hartford Hawks standout, returns for his sixth NLL season and his fourth with Calgary. The veteran has served as the Roughnecks captain since 2003 and has earned All-Pro honors every season of his career. (OurSports Central.com, Nov. 9)
Other News
The University of Connecticut plans to move the schools of family studies and allied health into other schools and restructure the College of Continuing Studies next summer. Provost Peter J. Nicholls will present his proposal to the board of trustees on Nov. 15. Faculty, staff and alumni said they were disappointed they were not consulted during the decision-making process. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 11)
Students in the Kalamazoo School District in Michigan will soon go to college for free. A group of anonymous donors have offered to pay up to 100 percent of tuition and fees for Kalamazoo district graduates at any Michigan public college or university staring in 2006. (Detroit News-Times, Nov. 11)
Albert Salame is developing WestConn Park in Danbury where he would rent laboratory space to bio-science and technology companies. WestConn Park would also be a research park where students and professors at Western Connecticut State University could further their education. (The News-Times, Danbury, Nov. 14)
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, criticized earlier this year for saying that women might lack the aptitude to excel in science and engineering, said the number of tenure offers to female professors increased for the first time since he took office in 2001. Of the 33 offers for tenure made by Harvard’s College of Arts and Sciences in the 2004–05 academic year, 27 percent were to women. That is up from 12 percent the previous year. (Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 10)
The School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut has been reaccredited for a full 10-year term by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. The accreditation team gave the school’s bachelor’s degree and master’s degree programs solid marks in several areas ranging from faculty qualifications to resources provided to students. (Hartford Courant, Nov. 8)
If current trends continue, the percentage of workers with college degrees will decline over the next 15 years, and that will drive personal income and tax revenues down, says a study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. New York is among the states that would be the most severely affected, along with Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Illinois, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico, says the report. (Gannett News Service, Nov. 9)
Experts say this year’s college freshman class and the rest of the millennial generation are ill-equipped for the compromises and negotiations required for living in such close quarters, with increasing numbers turning to their parents for solutions. (Indianapolis Star, Nov. 8; Seattle Times, Nov. 8)
