University Times

While Pitt administrators and attorneys continue to work out details of a proposed new early retirement plan for full-time, tenured faculty, University Senate leaders complain that they've been left in the dark about the plan's progress. "I don't know what interpretation to put on this," Senate benefits and welfare committee chairperson James Holland said at […]

Associate Provost for Research George Klinzing and Michael Becich, chairperson of the University Senate computer usage committee, are forming a committee that will begin meeting later this fall to: * Review Pitt's existing computing policies. * Judge whether those policies should be updated. * Make recommendations to the senior administration on privacy issues related to […]

Pitt freshman enrollment, applications and SAT scores all increased this fall. But for the third consecutive year the University failed to meet its overall enrollment goals. The shortfall was small, just 70 full-time-equivalent students, or 0.2 percent of Pitt's total enrollment. According to final figures for fall 1996, Pitt freshman enrollment increased by 10 percent […]

Of all the famous 19th- century industrialists, aka "robber barons," none remains more reviled in the public eye than Henry Clay Frick. Over three-quarters of a century after his death, guides at Clayton, the Frick home in Point Breeze, continue to hear nasty remarks about the former resident. Tour group members actually have refused to […]

James H. Moon, a faculty librarian and the principal cataloger with the University Library System, died Sept. 21, 1996, after a long illness. He was 63. Moon began his career with the University in 1967 as a cataloger. During his tenure he also served as coordinator of original cataloging, social sciences/special projects cataloger, head cataloger, […]

Campus police are warning members of the University community to beware of a letter seeking investors for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. Pitt Police Chief Rick Boyd said the letter is a fraud and that the company is being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service. According to Boyd, several letters already have been received by […]

The law of the United States sets aside today, Yom Hashoah, as a Day of Remembrance–of the Holocaust. On Yom Hashoah 1996, we recall that 50 years ago another member of the Court on which I sit, Justice Robert Jackson, joined representatives of other nations, as a prosecutor, at Nuremberg…. Justice Jackson described the Nuremberg […]

Sixteen Bosnian educational leaders, representing all 10 regions of the newly formed Bosnian Federation, are meeting at Pitt to plan teacher education reform in their country. The visit, which will end Nov. 9, is being hosted by Pitt's Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE) and will include trips to Mars Elementary School, Arsenal Middle […]

A search committee has been appointed to find a replacement for George Chambers, retiring president of Pitt's Greensburg campus (UPG). The 13-member committee is chaired by Robert Pack, vice provost for Academic Planning and Resources Management on the Pittsburgh campus. Pack said members of the committee will meet some time during the week of Nov. […]

Magee-Womens Hospital has been designated one of six National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Each center was chosen for the way it integrates health care services with research, education and health care professional training. "This national recognition is a reaffirmation of our 85-year-old commitment to […]