University Times

The University Senate community relations committee (CRC) wants community service to be considered in faculty tenure and promotion decisions. The committee is recommending that the Provost’s office approve guidelines that would permit individual departments to incorporate public service and service-learning into faculty tenure and promotion decisions. The guidelines also are designed to assist academic units […]

The University’s Pittsburgh campus is a big place with lots of people who carry with them lots of stuff. Occasionally, some of that stuff gets lost. Some gets found. When that happens, some gets into the hands of Pitt’s police department. “Tell them to come get their stuff,” said Pitt police sergeant Joe Patterson with […]

For rural wheelchair users, a perfect storm is brewing. The aging population in rural areas is creating growing health care needs complicated by access issues based both on physical limitations and geographic isolation. And now health insurers including Medicare are tightening their policies on who qualifies for mobility devices, said Mark Schmeler, an assistive technology […]

As the saying goes, first impressions are lasting. With that in mind, Pitt-Bradford business management professor Brian Vander Schee is studying how his way of welcoming students on the first day of his introductory marketing class may make a difference in their perception of the class and perhaps in their overall performance. Vander Schee said […]

Mentoring is not just for faculty and students anymore. Although mentoring relationships between senior and junior faculty, and between faculty and students are commonplace in an academic institution, units also benefit greatly by the improved staff social cohesion and social integration that mentoring can provide, said Jane Thompson, who last month led the workshop “How […]

Pitt will launch Wireless PittNet, the University’s campus-wide wireless Internet service, tomorrow, Dec. 8, by activating wireless network service in five campus buildings. Over the next 18 months, wireless network service will be installed in buildings across the 132-acre Pittsburgh campus and the four regional campuses. A technology fair will be held noon-4 p.m. Dec. […]

When Pitt smokers return to campus following the holiday break, they will have to move at least five feet away from most building entrances to light up, under a county-wide smoking ban that goes into effect Jan. 2. (See Oct. 26 University Times.) Under the ordinance, passed by Allegheny County Council Sept. 26 and most […]