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Volume 28 Issue 18

Chancellor search is slowed by scheduling difficulties >

May 9th, 1996

Because of difficulties in scheduling interviews with candidates, the chancellor search committee is running about two weeks behind schedule, according to committee chairperson James C. Roddey. Originally, the committee had planned to complete interviews and background checks on candidates by early May, trim the list to four semi-finalists, and bring those people to the Pittsburgh […]

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What they're asking the chancellor candidates >

May 9th, 1996

They're not rigidly scripted, but the Pitt chancellor search committee's interviews with candidates all follow the same general format and prepared list of questions. The question list distributed to the 24 committee members points out: "These should be viewed as basic questions. Other questions leading from answers to these questions and questions of your own […]

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Average salaries here range from high of UPMC executives to low of Titusville clerical personnel >

May 9th, 1996

The average salary among the 14 executives, administrators and managers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was $205,656 as of Oct. 31, 1995. Meanwhile, the nine secretaries and clerical workers at the Titusville campus were pulling in an average of $13,233. Those numbers represent the high and low salary ranges for full-time, non-union […]

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Assembly approves policy on faculty-student relationships, but with two amendments >

May 9th, 1996

A proposed policy that would restrict con- sensual sexual relationships between Pitt faculty and students has won conditional support from a key faculty group. At its May 7 meeting, Faculty Assembly voted 18-3 to endorse the policy, but with two amendments. According to the Assembly, the policy should be rewritten to: * Prohibit faculty from […]

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Compromise on Burger King site = park + parking >

May 9th, 1996

Approximately 16 metered parking spaces are being added to plans for the former Burger King/Pitt Tavern site along Fifth Avenue between Oakland Avenue and Bouquet Street. In January, the University announced plans to turn the entire site into a mini-park while considering future development possibilities that could include student housing. According to Associate Vice Chancellor […]

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Media watch group founder tackles "Limbecility" >

May 9th, 1996

Did you know the press ignored the Contract with America during the 1994 elections? That the Earth's ozone layer has been depleted by volcanic eruptions and not greenhouse gases? That not one person was indicted by Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh? And that the media never let it be known that Capt. Scott O'Grady credited […]

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Pitt hosts technology summit >

May 9th, 1996

Pitt hosted the first of four national Ernest L. Boyer Technology Summits for Educators April 29 in the Hilton Hotel, Downtown. Co-sponsored by Pitt, Carnegie Mellon University, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, WQED and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the two-day summit was expected to draw some 200 educators. Among the featured […]

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