University Times

For the first time in years, Pitt can remove the quotation marks from around the words “revenue-producing” when describing its football and men’s basketball programs. The two teams generated more money than they cost the University during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2002, according to an in-house study required by the NCAA. By […]

Pitt’s five highest-paid employees last year were all School of Medicine professors. They included: • James D. Luketich, an associate professor in the surgery department — $1,167,917 in salary and $20,572 in employer contributions to benefit plans. • L. Dade Lunsford, professor and chairperson of neurological surgery — $823,731 in salary and $24,460 in contributions […]

In addition to disclosing salary information, IRS Form 990s list the five independent contractors that received the most money from employers during FY 2001-02. For Pitt, those contractors included: • Computer consultant IT Convergence of San Francisco ($1,039,394) for work on Pitt’s new Human Resources and payroll information systems. • Investment advisers Capital Guardian Trust […]

Mayor Tom Murphy plans to talk at the June 3 Faculty Assembly meeting about the city’s financial woes and plead the case for taxing non-profit institutions such as Pitt. The city will face a $60 million shortfall starting July 1 unless it implements a series of budget cuts, and Pennsylvania’s General Assembly grants additional state […]

Pitt met the city’s May 15 deadline for submitting plans on how campus buildings with seven or more stories would be evacuated in an emergency. Now, Pitt — like other city employers with high-rise buildings — faces an Aug. 15 deadline for staging evacuation drills. A city ordinance passed in the aftermath of the Sept. […]

American civil litigation has been protecting the rights of the powerless and impoverished for much of the last half-century, said high-profile securities attorney William S. Lerach. But that golden age of American law has been tempered recently by a widespread and growing assault on the individual legal rights of U.S. citizens. “There have been changes […]

The number of on-line applications to both Arts and Sciences (A&S) graduate programs and Pitt undergraduate programs is skyrocketing, reflecting the national trend away from paper applications. But because graduate applicants tend to be independent adults while undergraduate hopefuls usually need guidance from their families, electronic applications elicit different feelings among admissions specialists here. Associate […]

This week, Oakland traffic and transportation changes on and around Fifth Avenue commenced, as workers started staging and construction of Pitt’s Biomedical Science Tower 3 (BST3) at a site between Darragh and Lothrop streets. The north lane of Fifth Avenue will be closed from west of the entrance to Children’s Hospital — starting at the […]

Pitt’s movement science major, housed in the School of Education, has received the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) endorsement as part of the ACSM University Connection Endorsement Program. The movement science curriculum covers the knowledge, skills and abilities expected of an ACSM health and fitness instructor. It also meets the standards of the National […]