University Times

Responding to faculty complaints that they were excluded from the process of setting next year's medical insurance rates for Pitt employees, Assistant Chancellor Jerome Cochran detailed and defended the administration's actions to Senate Council March 16. "We reached a critical place in time [this winter] when we had to make decisions" on rate increases for […]

Frank A. Cassell will be installed as the third president of the Greensburg campus March 25. More than 150 academic deans, faculty members and administrators from colleges and universities across the state are expected to join local community and University leaders at the installation. Ceremonies begin on the Greensburg campus at 1 p.m. with an […]

Some 1,300 School of Medicine faculty members are being asked whether they want to form a faculty association. In a March 13 letter to all full-time medical faculty, a committee of senior professors wrote that the association's aims would be to: * "Preserve the professional and scholarly values held by the faculty." * "Protect and […]

Pitt trustee Karen S. Fisher is assistant vice president, division of health care affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. An outdated job title for Fisher was published in the March 5 University Times.

University staff who spend more than 50 percent of their time on the job supporting the clinical activities of Pitt faculty practice plans are scheduled to be transferred to a new employer on Jan. 1, 1999 — the University of Pittsburgh Physicians (UPP) Management Co. The move is part of UPMC Health System's planned acquisition […]

John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain, will be the featured speaker at Pitt's 1998 Pitt Ambassadors Scholarship Dinner on April 30 at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers. John Major was appointed prime minister in November 1990 and served in that post until May 1997. Prior to becoming prime minister, he was serving as […]