The University unit focused on nontraditional student education employed an unconventional format last week to reach its constituents. With its first-ever on-line "town hall" meeting, billed as "CGS Live," the virtual audio-stream, interactive broadcast of an open meeting between College of General Studies administrators and students covered a variety of issues CGS faces as it […]
CGS employs nontraditional format to reach its nontraditional students >
March 22nd, 2001Poverty is major problem for U.S. public schools, lecturer says >
March 22nd, 2001What failing American public school system? Despite a drop in relative salaries of teachers, despite the fact that a rising percentage of teachers are teaching outside their field, and despite thinly spread education budgets in this country, test scores still have gone up over the past 30 years, kids continue to learn more than their […]
Nursing moves to 5th in NIH funding >
March 22nd, 2001Pitt's School of Nursing now ranks 5th in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research support to the nation's schools and colleges of nursing. The nursing school ranked 8th last year in NIH funding. The ranking is based on the amount of research grant dollars awarded by NIH to each school. Pitt's nursing research program, which […]
Plans call for cooler, less congested Cathedral >
March 22nd, 2001Central air conditioning throughout the Cathedral of Learning? Undergraduate classes restricted to the Cathedral's ground-through-third floors — eliminating elevator traffic jams caused by hundreds of students simultaneously trying to reach, or return from, upper floor classrooms? Those long-held dreams should come true by the end of the decade, Pitt administrators told a University Senate committee […]
Change in ID cards on Pittsburgh campus poses problems for regional staff, SAC told >
March 22nd, 2001Staff at Pitt's regional campuses have been denied certain services enjoyed by their Pittsburgh campus counterparts, according to a Greensburg campus staff official. Nancy Young, vice president of the Greensburg campus Staff Association Council, told the Pittsburgh campus Staff Association Council (SAC) that Greensburg staff with I.D.s had been denied access to Pitt libraries and […]
Wellness Fair scheduled >
March 22nd, 2001Health screenings, exercise demonstrations, specialized booths and free food are some of the features of the annual Wellness Fair, a free event for the Pitt community. This year's fair will be held 10-2 p.m., March 29, in the William Pitt Union. The event has grown so much over the years that the fair now is […]
Pre-registration accepted for Stargate Internet services >
March 22nd, 2001Pitt faculty, staff and students can preregister for dial-up or high-speed DSL (digital subscriber line) Internet access service under the University's recently announced Internet service provider partnership with Stargate. (See University Times, Feb. 8.) Pitt entered an agreement with Stargate on Feb. 5. Services are expected to become available by March 31. Under this plan, […]
ULS gets Cultural Trust archives >
March 22nd, 2001Pitt's University Library System has acquired the archival records of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The collection was donated by the Cultural Trust and covers the period 1984 (the first year of the trust's operations) through 1999. The records include many of the organization's office files, development plans and proposals, architectural drawings and business records spanning […]