University Times

Two influential Pitt committees have recommended that the University boost the pool of money available for salaries by 3 percent for the fiscal year that begins July 1 – without first cutting the base compensation budget, as in recent years. Chancellor Mark Norden-berg declined to comment on the proposal this week. For faculty, the proposed […]

The Family Enterprise Center at the Katz Graduate School of Business and the Family Firm Institute, Pittsburgh chapter, selected nine winners for the 1998 Western Pennsylvania Family Business of the Year awards. The fourth annual awards program recognizes the accomplishments of successful businesses for positive family/business linkages, multigenerational family business involvement and contributions to industry […]

Besides recommending a 3 percent increase in faculty and staff compensation for the fiscal year that begins July 1, the University Planning and Budgeting Committee (UPBC) has proposed 4 percent increases in tuition and financial aid for next fall. UPBC unanimously approved those budget parameters and others at a closed-door meeting May 4. Meeting minutes […]

Hillman Library's archives were bolstered this month with the addition of the former Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad records. The records were donated to Pitt by Jack Polaritz, director of the Western Pennsylvania Interactive Railroad Learning Center Project, a subsidiary of the Coraopolis Economic Revitalization Center. Hundreds of boxes of employee job applications, labor union […]

Pitt's five highest paid professors during the 1996-97 fiscal year were – as usual – from the School of Medicine, according to an Internal Revenue Service form that the University filed this month. The professors were: Bartley P. Griffith, professor of cardiothoracic surgery – $591,650 in salary (up from $380,600 the year before), $42,434 in […]

After six years and three searches, Pitt finally has found a replacement for Thomas Detre, senior vice chancellor for Health Sciences. Arthur S. Levine, 61, currently scientific director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will succeed Detre Nov. 1. In addition to taking on […]

Average salaries of full, associate and assistant professors at the Pittsburgh campus lost ground last year compared with the median of salaries at other American Association of Universities (AAU) schools. No surprise there. Last year, Pitt awarded average raises of 2.1 percent for professors, 2 percent for associate profs and 2.2 percent for assistant professors. […]

Eva Reid Brosius, former clerk of the University Senate who held the job for over 27 years, died May 25. Brosius joined the University in 1969 as associate director of the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. Appointed the first clerk of the University Senate that year, Brosius went on to work with 15 Senate […]

The School of Medicine has established a first-of-its-kind endowed chair focusing on the patient-doctor relationship and patient-centered care. A national search will be conducted to identify the physician who will hold the newly created Leo H. Criep, M.D., Chair in Patient Care. The Criep professor will hold the appointment in Pitt's Department of Medicine. The […]

To Arthur S. Levine, culture isn't just something you grow in a Petri dish. "I've always been as interested in the humanities as in the sciences," says Levine, who was named last week as Pitt senior vice chancellor for Health Sciences and dean of the medical school, effective Nov. 1. Levine, 61, currently is scientific […]