Pitt showed a better-than-average growth in the market value of its endowment last year compared to other schools surveyed in the annual National Association of University Business Officers (NACUBO) Endowment Study, but the picture was bleak all around. The 791 colleges and universities in the survey averaged growth of 0.5 percent in their endowment values […]
Senate group wants Pitt to address ADA concerns >
February 5th, 2009A University Senate committee wants Pitt to address two concerns related to the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and its sequel legislation, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. Lynn Fitzgerald, chair of the Senate’s anti-discriminatory policies committee, said her committee has heard complaints regarding the University’s evacuation procedures as they relate to those with disabilities. […]
Pitt will punish student vandals, chancellor says >
February 5th, 2009Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg has committed “to deal quickly and aggressively,” with any Pitt student who violated laws or the Student Code of Conduct following last Sunday’s Super Bowl. After the Steelers’ victory, thousands of revelers took to the streets of Pittsburgh; a number of them caused damage in Oakland that included arson, overturned vehicles, […]
University competes to increase recycling >
February 5th, 2009An expanded emphasis on recycling in Pitt’s residence halls has brought RecycleMania to campus. Pitt is among some 500 schools participating in the College and University Recycling Council’s nationwide campus recycling challenge. The 10-week competition concludes March 28. Pitt is among 169 institutions that have registered for the less formal benchmark division, in which recycling […]
Census Bureau tracks changing face of U.S. >
February 5th, 2009One of the things that President Barack Obama referenced in his inauguration remarks was this country’s “patchwork heritage.” In his Jan. 22 Pitt talk, “Measuring Race and Ethnicity in a Changing, Multicultural America,” part of the Center for Race and Social Problems lecture series, a U.S. Census Bureau official discussed that patchwork heritage in relation […]
GSPH, Peace Corps join forces >
February 5th, 2009In collaboration with the Peace Corps, the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) has instituted a program that blends classroom learning with real-world experience for students interested in a career in global health. The Master’s International (MI) track enables students to earn a master’s degree in public health and also volunteer with the Peace Corps. […]
Financial Times ranks Katz program “best value” >
February 5th, 2009The Financial Times, a London-based business news organization with a print and online readership of 1.3 million people, has ranked the full-time MBA program at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business first in the United States for the third consecutive year in the “Best Value for the Money” category. The program was ranked […]
Katz alum to address honors convocation >
February 5th, 2009Raymond W. Smith, an alumnus of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business (KGSB) and a former Pitt trustee, will be the keynote speaker at Pitt’s honors convocation, to be held at 3 p.m. Feb. 27 in Carnegie Music Hall. His address is titled “Heisenberg’s ‘Certainty’ Principle.” In 2005 Smith was named a Pitt […]