Average salaries of Pittsburgh campus professors and faculty librarians have lost ground since last year, compared with the median of salaries at other American Association of Universities (AAU) schools. The decline was hardly unexpected, considering that the only Pitt employees to receive pay raises this year were those earning $35,000 or less. Their raises ranged […]
Faculty salaries here lose ground in ranking of pay at AAU schools >
April 25th, 1996BOOKS & JOURNALS >
April 25th, 1996In this 25th annual edition of Books and Journals by the Faculty, we recognize Pitt faculty members who write or edit books as well as edit or co-edit journals. Book submissions have been arranged according to school, and listed alphabetically by title for easier reference. In instances of co-authored and co-edited books, the Pitt faculty […]
AIM's co-founder takes issue with some common images of Indians >
April 25th, 1996Nineteenth century Plains Indians did not hunt buffalo the way Kevin Costner did in the movie "Dances With Wolves." They were not nomadic. They did not belong to a warrior society. And when they were forced onto reservations they adapted and became successful ranchers, so successful that the federal government had to create the farm […]
CGS dean named >
April 25th, 1996Robert L. Carter, dean of the College of Lifelong Learning at Wayne State University in Detroit, has been named dean of Pitt's College of General Studies (CGS). According to a letter that Provost James Maher sent yesterday, April 24, to Pitt's Council of Deans and to Pitt trustees who serve on the CGS Board of […]
United Faculty suspends campaign >
April 25th, 1996The United Faculty (UF) has suspended its latest campaign to unionize Pitt faculty. UF leaders announced this week that they are calling off indefinitely the campaign that they launched a year ago to get faculty to sign cards authorizing UF to represent them in collective bargaining. United Faculty President Mark Ginsburg said the group has […]
Arts and Sciences restructure plans proposed >
April 25th, 1996A provost-appointed committee has recommended overhauling Pitt's arts and sciences administration. In its April 19 final report to Provost James Maher, the Ad Hoc Committee on Restructuring the Arts and Sciences recommends that: * Lines of authority should be changed so that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean has clear, overall responsiblity for […]
Bigelow test closing okayed >
April 25th, 1996Get ready for another public hearing in the continuing saga that has become the test closing of Bigelow Boulevard between the Cathedral of Learning and the William Pitt Union. Pittsburgh City Council on April 22 unanimously voted to conduct a hearing on a bill to study ways of modifying Bigelow to provide Pitt with more […]
New option reviewed for investment policy >
April 25th, 1996In its own small way, Pitt may have helped to topple South Africa's white-minority government. In March 1987, the Board of Trustees voted to purge Pitt's endowment of holdings in companies doing business in the then-racially segregated nation. The ban remained in effect until June 1994, when the trustees rescinded the policy in response to […]