University Times

Pitt was included among the nation's top graduate schools in several disciplines by U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of America's best graduate schools. The magazine measures grad programs in five major disciplines (business, education, engineering, law and medicine), using measures such as entering students' test scores and faculty/student ratios, and reputation ratings drawn […]

This year's benefits enrollment period for Pitt faculty and staff runs from April 9 to May 25. During that time, faculty and staff may change their health benefits selections. Changes will go into effect July 1, the beginning of Pitt's fiscal year. According to Human Resources, open enrollment information will be mailed to employees this […]

Toni Carbo plans to resign as dean of the School of Information Sciences (SIS), effective June 30, 2002. She will return to teaching and research as a professor in SIS and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. "I've been a manager for the last 30 years and I've been working full-time since I […]

A memorial service for Jack Matthews will be held on Friday, April 20, at 2 p.m. in the Frick Fine Arts auditorium. A reception will follow in the cloister. Matthews, who died Dec. 18, 2000, was a faculty member here from 1950 until he retired in 1987. He was professor of communication and chair of […]

Officials for both the University and the Port Authority of Allegheny County expect to reach an agreement to extend the ride-for-free service to Pitt I.D. holders before the current contract year ends July 31. (See related story on page 8.) Pitt is in the second year of a five-year deal that went into effect Aug. […]

Bruce T. Williams, professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, died Tuesday, March 27, 2001. He was 58. Williams joined the UPJ faculty in 1970 as an instructor of anthropology. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1973, associate professor in 1976 and to professor in 1994. From January 1980 to December […]

A regional campus staff member last month filed a protest with Pitt's Human Resources that the new Pittsburgh campus I.D. cards penalized regional staff whose I.D.s were no longer recognized for certain University services, including free bus rides in Allegheny County. (See University Times, March 22.) This week, two faculty members raised related issues at […]

In an effort to combat hunger in the region, the University is kicking off "Pitt's Partnership for Food" campaign with a food collection drive April 10-20. Steve Zupcic, who is coordinating Pitt's efforts, notes that over 400 area universities, companies and governmental agencies have launched their own food collection campaigns. Contributions go directly to the […]

Both the highest and lowest median sala- ries among the ranks of non-unionized Pitt employees last year were in the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences. Among the office's six executive, administrative and managerial staff, the median salary was $173,825. That included Senior Vice Chancellor Arthur S. Levine's salary of $537,000, the […]

Average faculty salaries in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) ranged last year from $25,564 for instructors in the humanities division to $87,558 for full professors in the social sciences division. Average and median salaries for employees in FAS and other Pitt units as of Oct. 31, 2000, appeared in a recent report by […]