Pitt's School of Education and the Pittsburgh Public Schools have selected five candidates for this year's African-American Teaching Fellowships. They are: Harold Grant, North Versailles; Reginald Hickman, Monroeville; John Strayhorn, Wilkinsburg; Maurice Washington, Washington, Pa., and Laura Williams, Pittsburgh. Funded mainly by the Pittsburgh Foundation, the fellowship is designed to increase the number of African-American […]
Pitt faculty pay still in middle of AAU schools >
May 25th, 1995The average salaries of Pittsburgh campus faculty members continue to rank in the middle of the pack among the 59 U.S. member institutions of the American Association of Universities (AAU), a group of elite North American research universities. The rankings are included in a report by Pitt's Office of Institutional Research, based on data published […]
Pitt Kennywood tickets on sale >
May 25th, 1995The annual Kennywood Park picnic for Pitt staff, students and faculty will be July 1. Park hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., with rides starting at noon and fireworks at 10 p.m. Ride-all-day tickets, normally $18, cost $12 for Pitt personnel. General admission remains at $4. Tickets must be purchased in advance, by June […]
Faculty retirement plan to be studied >
May 25th, 1995Under federal law, mandatory retirement ages for faculty have been illegal since Jan. 1, 1994. Pitt has offered a series of early retirement incentive plans to its tenured faculty since 1982. For those two reasons and others, Pitt's administration can only guess how many professors will retire in a given year, and how those retirements […]
Dental school staffer's dismissal protested >
May 25th, 1995Some 260 School of Dental Medicine students, alumni and employees have signed a petition asking the school's administration to reinstate a staff member in the dental medicine Student Services office. Charlotte Celidonia, 57, was dismissed May 5 after five years as a staff specialist III. According to Alfred W. Whitehead, director of dental Student Services, […]
Fund set up in memory of newscaster >
May 25th, 1995An Al McDowell Memorial Fund has been established in memory of the late Pittsburgh newscaster. The purpose of the fund is to endow an scholarship in the English department's non-fiction writing program. The scholarship will be given annually at the Al McDowell Pittsburgh Media Forum, designed to bring Pittsburgh-area journalists to Pitt to share with […]
M O V I N G ! >
May 25th, 1995After almost 11 years of being scattered throughout Bellefield Hall, Pitt's University Child Development Center (UCDC) will open for business May 30 at its new home at 635 Clyde Street. The neo-classical style building is near the Pitt chancellor's residence and a half-block from Central Catholic High School. By moving from Bellefield Hall to the […]
Pitt Zone on Port Authority buses debuts; renovations begin in Forbes Quad garage >
May 25th, 1995If early reports are any indication, the new "Pitt Zone" program devised by the University's Department of Parking and Transportation and the Port Authority Transit system (PAT) could be a great success. The program, which went into effect May 1, allows Pitt students, faculty and staff with a valid University identification card to ride PAT […]