Jacqueline Rabe Thomas M’17, who earned her master of arts in public policy at Trinity College and is now an investigative reporter with Connecticut Public’s Accountability Project, returned to campus in the spring 2022 semester to report on the work that students were doing in an Educational Studies class.
Following up on the January settlement agreement of the 26-year-old Sheff vs. O’Neill Hartford schools desegregation case, students in Professor of Educational Studies Jack A. Dougherty’s “Cities, Suburbs & Schools” course created data visualization graphics to illustrate the current state of Hartford school integration.
The Connecticut Public story published by Rabe Thomas on May 11, “Trinity College Students’ Analysis Finds State Far from Promises Made to Desegregate Hartford Schools,” says, “Students spent a semester taking the 87-page Sheff v. O’Neill agreement filled with hard-to-digest numbers and legal jargon and translating it into a few graphics to help the public understand how far the state is from the agreement’s goal.” Quoted in the story along with Dougherty are students Maria Vicuna ’24 and Victoria Asfalg ’23.
Click here to read (or listen to) the full story, and to see some of the charts created by the students.
Trinity has announced that it will cover full tuition, housing, and meals for admitted students who live in Hartford. Trinity also is eliminating application fees and offering half-tuition grants to admitted students from Hartford County and five neighboring counties.
Trinity College is included in The Princeton Review’s newly released list, “The Best 392 Colleges: 2027 Edition.” Trinity is among 10 higher institutions in Connecticut to be featured on the unranked list.
Trinity College’s Austin Arts Center and its resident theater company, HartBeat Ensemble, will present Athol Fugard’s South African drama “A Lesson from Aloes” from October 8 through October 17, 2026.
Trinity is number 5 for liberal arts colleges and moved up to number 36 nationally among all colleges and universities on LinkedIn’s second annual list of best colleges for long-term career success in the U.S.
