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Search results for "University of Connecticut" ...
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"Double Dipping"
Nearly 1,000 retired UConn professors are receiving duel payment from the state in the form of a paycheck and a pension. A law was enacted in 2007 that was designed to limit the number of retired professors who could be on the payroll and the length of time they could be hired, but as revealed by the Hartford-Courant, that law has been all but overlooked.
Tags: UConn; pensions; retirees; Connecticut Office of Policy and Management; Hugh Macgill; Ernest Marquez; Central Connecticut State University; Gov. M. Jodi Rell
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UConn 2000
This series investigated the construction program at the University of Connecticut, exposing significant flaws, safety violations and cost overruns in the $2.5 billion program, the largest public building project in state history. The Courant found that the university ignored recommendations from auditors on construction and budgeting issues, resulting in cost overruns and safety violations that will cost millions to correct. The university withheld critical audit findings from the state legislature even as it was requesting more than $1 billion in additional public funding. The university changed the dimensions of a student-housing complex to bypass state fire inspections that would have delayed construction. The university handed out no-bid contracts, in some cases to contractors who increased their donations at the time they received the work.
Tags: University of Connecticut; UCONN; safety violations; cost overruns; public construction; auditors; budget; Connecticut state legislature; public funding; contractors
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Behind the UConn Logo: A Broken Promise. As Colleges Profit, Sweatshops Worsen.
This investigation showed that, even though several years ago the University of Connecticut pledged to battle the sweatshop conditions under which their lucrative licensed merchandise was made, not much progress has actually been made. The reporters found that most schools merely watch from the sidelines as factory conditions deteriorate. A trend towards moving production into China is one factor that contributed to the problems.
Tags: college; merchandise; trade; maquilladoras; Nike
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Secret Files
The Courant detailed the extent and nature of an unusual practice whereby state judges selectively sealed cases, some so completely that their very existence was not publicly acknowledged. That disclosure, and the revelations that the practice often favored fellow judges, celebrities, and wealthy CEO's, stoked considerable public outrage. Six months later, judges abolished it.
Tags: state judges; dockets; Connecticut Practice Book; Connecticut Law Tribune; sealed cases; sealed files; lawsuit; divorce-court cases; Texaco; Nine West; Arthur Anderson; MasterCard; Primerica Corp.; General Electric; University of Connecticut; Level 1 sealing; Level 2 sealing; judicial branch; Superior Court Judges; U.S. Supreme Court; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford; Connecticut State Supreme Court; U.S. District Court in Hartford; sexual abuse; lawsuits public interest cases; secret court files; state-court proceedings
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A Delicate balancing act
This story looks at how student athletes cope with their academic work while fulfilling their commitment to college sports.
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Crime on Campus
In this four-part series, advanced journalism students from the University of Connecticut examine rising crime statistics and the various new types of crime at the UConn campus at Storrs, CT. Using data from the university's police department and Uniform Crime Reports, reporters found that the UConn police department was greatly understaffed despite increasing student numbers and rising crime. They also discovered that problems such as poor dormitory security and underage alcohol abuse contributed to the increase in serious and violent crime on campus.
Tags: Crime; universities; UConn; Uniform Crime Reports
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No title (id: 6944)
Hartford Courant reveals that state funds have been steered away from the University of Connecticut Health Center and into a private foundation in violation of state law, Oct. 8, 1988.
Tags: CT fraud research UConn Foundation universities colleges hospitals funding
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No title (id: 2376)
Chronicle of Higher Education reports the independent foundations of public colleges and universities are under increased scrutiny from state and federal officials; discusses investigations of foundations at Univ. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Univ. of Connecticut, Southeastern Oklahoma St. Univ., Portland State, and elsewhere, Sept. 14, 1988.
Tags: McMillen WI CT OK CA OR
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No title (id: 1225)
The Advocate (Stamford, Conn.) tells how United Technologies and the University of Connecticut negotiated to endow and run in secret a center to analyze environmental and worker health problems, March 20, 1985.
Tags: None