City of Stamford, Stamford Partnership Gift Will Help Fight Food Insecurities
The Mayor s Humanitarian Community Fund provided a gift of $10,000 to create the UConn Stamford Food Insecurity Fund.
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Food insecurity continues to be a growing issue on college campuses everywhere. Students suffering from this problem at UConn Stamford will soon begin to see some relief due to a generous gift from the Stamford Partnership on behalf of the City of Stamford.
The Stamford Partnership, the primary economic and community development non-profit organization in the region, facilitated the gift of $10,000 to the UConn Foundation from Stamford’s Mayoral Humanitarian Community Fund to establish the UConn Stamford Food Insecurity Fund.
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Connecticut Repertory Theatre Pivots to Livestream Shows Thanks to Donors
Even the pandemic couldn t keep the show from going on
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When the pandemic suddenly brought the curtain down on UConn’s Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) last spring, faculty and staff had to figure out how to pivot to virtual performances.
It was a pricey technological challenge. They had to buy laptops, software, monitors, green screens, microphones, and ring lights, and then ship it all to students so they could perform remotely from home.
Luckily, the theatre was able to tap into several UConn Foundation philanthropic funds – including the Hewitt Fund, the Nafe Katter fund, and the CRT Patrons Fund – to cover the $25,000 cost. Without the support of donors, this would be very difficult because of the significant loss of ticket revenue.
SB 678 is a bill introduced in January in the state legislature to mandate that Connecticut schools offer courses on Asian American history. Prominent members of the Asian American community praised the bill as necessary, especially with reports of a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
If COVID-19 makes campus life less attractive, CT universities will pay a stiff price
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Harry Zehner, senior at the University of Connecticut, works before attending an online class in his room in New Haven. Zehner decided to live off campus this fall semester to live with friends going to different universities and because of the uncertainty coming from living on campus.
Connecticut’s public colleges and universities have walked on a fiscal knife’s edge for years.
Forced to frequently raise fees and tuition to offset dwindling state aid, higher education faces a new threat from the coronavirus potentially worse than the initial surge that closed campuses last spring.