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The Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert will mark its 27th year Oct. 28 through Nov. 1 with an all-star jazz line-up and the traditional on-campus seminars, brown bag lunches and an outreach program. Performers will include, at left, pianist Patrice Rushen and, at right, saxophonist Ernie Watts. Other performers include: saxophonist and director of Pitt's […]

Mentors aid Pitt students through Generations Together To the University community: Since 1993 the University of Pittsburgh's Generations Together Program has been recruiting retirees to serve as mentors to our Pitt undergraduate and graduate students. To date more than 40 retirees with a variety of professional work skills have given 15,000 hours of service to […]

Thomas Detre, senior vice chancellor for Health Sciences, is Pitt's highest-paid employee. In addition to his $438,000 salary, he is entitled to a University car, special health benefits and financial counseling, among other perks available to officers of the University. Detre plans to retire at the end of the current academic year or when his […]

Some people would walk a mile for a Camel (assuming their hearts and lungs could handle the trip). Faculty Assembly merely wants Pitt employees who participate in the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund pension plan to open their mail from TIAA-CREF this month — and then complete and return an enclosed ballot, […]

Now that Faculty Assembly has endorsed a proposal to extinguish tobacco stocks from the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) retirement plan, some University Senate leaders are considering asking the Pitt Board of Trustees to divest the University's own endowment of tobacco company stocks. Pitt owns about $1.6 million worth of stock in companies involved in […]

A 12-point agenda designed to improve academics, diversity, undergraduate life, staff relations and communications at Pitt's Greensburg campus (UPG) has been unveiled by UPG president Frank Cassell. Developed with input from persons on campus and in the community, the agenda was revealed by Cassell during an Oct. 7 speech to UPG's Senate Council. "In general […]

Pitt's Planning and Budgeting System (PBS) got mixed reviews in the first-ever survey of faculty, staff, students and administrators who serve on PBS committees at the responsibility center level. Asked to rate their committees' effectiveness on a scale of 0 (the committee has no impact on the unit's planning and budgeting) to 100 (major impact), […]

Negotiators for Pitt and the union that represents 540 University custodians, grounds-keepers and food service workers agreed Tuesday on the final wording of a new contract. A spokesperson for Local 29 of the Service Employees International Union said SEIU officials hope to present the proposed contract to workers for a ratification vote next week. Pitt […]

Following are the committees that will work on the 12-point improvement plan laid out for Pitt's Greensburg campus by campus President Frank Cassell: * Academic council: Chair Norman Scanlon, Estry Ang, Patricia Duck, William Martin, Mark McColloch, Donald Reilly and ex officio member Frank Cassell. * Undergraduate life: Co-chairs Rick Fogle and Larry Whatule, Gerry […]