The Husky Report Newsletter

Dur­ing my final semes­ter (Fall 2023), I had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to take a Newslet­ter Pub­li­ca­tion class led by Pro­fes­sor Julie Serkosky. With six oth­er stu­dents, we devel­oped a Sub­stack email newslet­ter called “The Husky Report — Your Gate­way to UConn News.”

We released a newslet­ter each week focus­ing on high­er edu­ca­tion-relat­ed poli­cies and issues, such as arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence or the job mar­ket for Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut students.

Note from Pro­fes­sor Julie Serkosky, talk­ing about my most valu­able strength as a reporter.

I rotat­ed in between roles, from being in charge of copy­edit­ing one week to main bar or side­bar reporter for anoth­er week.

Through this expe­ri­ence, I dis­cov­ered and honed my strengths and learned what it is like to work on an in-per­son team in a newsroom.

A stu­dent logs in to Chat­G­PT. / Pho­to by Colleen Lucey

By Ali­cia Gomez
Sept. 29, 2023
Newslet­ter Course – UConn Jour­nal­ism Department

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut has caught one stu­dent pla­gia­riz­ing using arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, and anoth­er student’s actions are under review, accord­ing to a UConn spokesperson. 

But UConn’s pol­i­cy can be as con­fus­ing as AI. Two stu­dents with the same major or pro­fes­sor may have dif­fer­ent rules on whether they can use Chat­G­PT for their classes. 

While I con­tributed to the entire piece, my class­mate, Colleen Lucey, played a key role in explor­ing the approach­es of the Eco­nom­ics and Psy­chol­o­gy depart­ments in this article.

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The UConn sign on the Storrs cam­pus. / Pho­to by Coral Aponte

By Ali­cia Gomez
Dec. 8, 2023
Newslet­ter Course — UConn Jour­nal­ism Department 

Con­necti­cut offi­cials have tried to stave off “brain drain,” a wide­spread immi­gra­tion of edu­cat­ed res­i­dents to oth­er states, with an idea called the “Learn Here, Live Here” pro­gram.

“Learn Here, Live Here” is designed to help younger Con­necti­cut res­i­dents buy their first homes. Under the pro­pos­al, any­one who grad­u­at­ed on or after Jan. 1, 2024, from any Con­necti­cut high school, col­lege or cer­tifi­cate pro­gram who makes less than $75,000 a year could receive a tax cred­it of up to $2,500 for a first-time home­buy­er account.

The pro­gram and its $5 mil­lion fund­ing stalled this year in the leg­is­la­ture, however.

So is so-called brain drain still a prob­lem in Connecticut?

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I made this wel­come email for the food inse­cu­ri­ty issue of The Husky Report using graph­ics I made using Can­va. I also aggre­gat­ed a few inter­est­ing Con­necti­cut sto­ries from around the time this issue was pub­lished. (Oct. 27, 2023)