University Times

The annual comparison of Pitt faculty salaries with selected peers has had yet another wild card tossed into the mix. This year’s data does not include salary figures from the six University of California campuses that are included among the administration’s Pittsburgh campus peer group of 34 public Association of American Universities institutions. Data for […]

Pitt’s Asian Studies Center, part of the University Center for International Studies, has been re-funded as a National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA) site and upgraded from a regional site to a national site by NCTA. NCTA is a multi-year initiative to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about Asia in world history, geography, […]

Pittsburgh campus faculty pay Pittsburgh campus professors’ average salary of $121,900 placed faculty at No. 9, up from last year’s 12th place ranking with an average salary of $119,500. The absence of UCLA, UC-Berkeley and UC-San Diego, which ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 6 in the 2006-07 comparison, pushed the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill […]

The University Library System (ULS) announced that its five millionth volume is “Making the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary,” by William Strickland. Strickland is a Pitt alumnus, trustee and chair of the ULS board of visitors. He also is president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell […]

Head men’s basketball coach James P. Dixon II topped the list of Pitt’s five highest-paid non-officer employees during the 2006-07 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2007. Compensation figures for those five employees appeared on Internal Revenue Service forms filed May 15 by Pitt. Form 990 requires tax-exempt, private corporations to reveal compensation figures for […]

The School of Arts and Sciences has awarded $200,000 to support Cave Canem Foundation’s retreat for African-American poets at Pitt-Greensburg, 2008-2012. Pitt professor of English Toi Derricotte co-founded Cave Canem with poet Cornelius Eady to remedy the under-representation of African-American poets in MFA programs and at writing workshops. The Cave Canem retreat annually serves 54 […]

Again this year, UPMC president and CEO Jeffrey R. Romoff topped all UPMC employees in total pay, netting more than $4 million for fiscal year 2007. Compensation figures reported on IRS form 990 for highly paid officials at UPMC were released May 16 for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2007. (For figures on […]

Study-abroad opportunities increasingly are touted as an important addition to higher education, enriching students’ cross-cultural awareness and preparing them with first-hand experience that will serve them in an increasingly global environment regardless of their field of study. Although it is among the Pitt Study Abroad Office’s goals to integrate study abroad as a component across […]

Officers of the Staff Association Council (SAC) would be permitted to succeed themselves without term limits under a proposal to amend the council’s bylaws. Currently, officers may serve for a maximum of three consecutive two-year terms. Peggy McNeil reported that the governance committee, which she co-chairs, had approved a revision to the bylaws (Article VII, […]

Who better to offer advice on mentoring than those who’ve already walked in those shoes, either as a mentor or as a mentee? Participants in the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education’s Summer Instructional Development Institute (SIDI), “Mentoring Student Research,” on May 8 received advice not only from experienced mentors, but also from a […]