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She s also recruited some high-profile staffers, bringing aboard former legendary UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun to develop a new men’s basketball program in 2018, and longtime TV news anchor Dennis House as a digital media professor last year.
After closing the USJ campus in the 2020 spring semester amid the pandemic, Free led a reopening for the following fall and spring semesters, while requiring residential students to complete a seven-day quarantine before returning to in-person classes.
Since Greg Woodward became president of the University of Hartford in 2017, he’s initiated plans to build a new $58-million, 62,000-square-foot academic building that will provide a state-of-the-art facility for two of the private college’s most in-demand and growing majors: engineering and nursing.
Gov. Ned Lamont holds a lot of power over Connecticut’s purse strings, particularly with his pandemic-era emergency powers in full effect and federal stimulus aid flowing, but Melissa McCaw, his budget director, knows the state’s checkbook inside and out.
The Wesleyan alum began her career at the Office of Policy and Management in the early 2000s, and nearly two decades later she now leads the agency as secretary, following top financial roles at the University of Hartford and in Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin’s administration.
Prominent members of the large Puerto Rican disapora community in Connecticut say they are hopefully statehood will be achieved but only if the Puerto Rican people want it.
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Middletown Conservation and Agriculture member Katharine Owens and her family pose for a photograph at the Jablonski property in Middletown.Contributed photo / Katharine OwnsShow MoreShow Less
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