Four Health Sciences professors and head football coach Walt Harris were the University's five highest paid, non-officer employees during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2001, according to an IRS form that Pitt filed this week. The five employees included: * Ronald B. Herberman, professor of medicine/pathology and Health Sciences associate vice chancellor — […]
Four Health Sciences profs, football coach top list of highest paid non-officer employees >
May 16th, 2002
New SIS dean named >
May 16th, 2002A national leader in information technology and digital library initiatives has been named dean of Pitt's School of Information Sciences (SIS), effective July 1. Ronald L. Larsen, 55, executive director of the Maryland Applied Information Technology Initiative, where he directs the activities of a consortium of 10 Maryland universities, will succeed Toni Carbo, who has […]
Same-sex partner health benefits inevitable, committee says, but urges University not to offer them now >
May 16th, 2002Eventually, the University should offer medical benefits to its employees' same-sex partners — but doing so now "would not be prudent," Pitt's special committee on domestic partner health insurance benefits has advised. After 10 months of study, the committee concluded in a report to Chancellor Mark Nordenberg that "there is no simple solution" to the […]
Senate election produces tie for VP >
May 16th, 2002Economics professor James H. Cassing has been re-elected to a second one-year term as president of the University Senate. Josephine E. Olson of the Katz Graduate School of Business has been elected as the group's new secretary. Their terms begin July 1. Voting for the Senate's vice president resulted in a tie between incumbent Thomas […]
Faculty elected to Senate committees >
May 16th, 2002The following faculty members have been elected to three-year terms on standing committees of the University Senate: Admissions and financial aid — Otto L. Graf, education; G. Lance Lugar, University Library System (ULS), and Sheel M. Petel, pharmacy. Anti-discriminatory policies — Eric O. Clarke, Jane Feuer and Richard C. Tobias, Faculty of Arts and Sciences […]
Senate surveys part-time faculty >
May 16th, 2002Part-time faculty who responded to a University Senate survey expressed a high degree of satisfaction with physical resources at the Pittsburgh and regional campuses (secretarial support, access to departmental computers and mailboxes) and moderate-to-high satisfaction with academic support (such as departments providing adequate grading guidelines, and matching teaching preferences with course offerings). Respondents were less […]