Faculty shun technology Why don't more faculty use technology in teaching? Technophobia is the answer. Or, it's the popular or politically correct answer. As one who has never been accused of being politically correct, and usually not even correct, I would like to suggest several other potential answers based upon my experience and interaction with […]
University takes its case to state House appropriations committee >
March 14th, 1996HARRISBURG — During Pitt's March 5 hearing before the state House of Representatives appropriations committee, most of the committee members' questions and comments sounded as if they had been scripted by Pitt officials themselves. Perhaps it was a case of Democratic lawmakers seeking to portray a Republican governor as a short-sighted skinflint — six of […]
Hillman isn't the only Pitt library that is coping with overcrowding >
March 14th, 1996Hillman Library's overcrowding has been well documented in news articles and reports to such groups as the Board of Trustees and Senate Council's plant utilization and planning committee. It also is readily apparent by the number of students who can be found sprawled on the library's floors studying because of seating sacrificed for additional shelving. […]
Chancellor search list down to 10, Roddey reports to Assembly >
March 14th, 1996The committee searching for a new Pitt chancellor has narrowed its list to 10 candidates, chairperson James C. Roddey told Faculty Assembly March 12. "We are down to 10. That could be eight or nine in another week or so as we really begin to press these candidates and tell them that we're going to […]
Death ruled a suicide >
March 14th, 1996College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate John Solot, 25, committed suicide March 7 by jumping out a 35th floor Cathedral of Learning window sometime between 5:45 and 6 a.m., according to city and campus police and the Allegheny County coroner's office. Pitt custodian Francis Fuhrer found the body shortly after 6 a.m. near the east […]
Cabins to Mansions >
March 14th, 1996Cabins to Mansions: The University Press reissues a classic work on western Pennsylvania's early architecture– by Mike Sajna Jim Burke, a staff photographer in Pitt's Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education, says his involvement in the University Press's new reprint of Charles Morse Stotz's classic 1936 work "The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania" was […]
Book Center staff member helps to preserve 200-year-old Neill log cabin in Schenley Park >
March 14th, 1996Nobody knows exactly how many of the buildings featured in "The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania" remain standing. It would take another survey to determine that figure. Judging by the deteriorated condition of some of the structures when they were photographed in the 1930s, though, it's a safe bet that a large portion of them […]
Employees can buy into vision, dental plans as part of new benefits >
March 14th, 1996Beginning July 1, Pitt faculty and staff will have three new fringe benefits options: purchase of dental insurance and vision insurance, and the ability to borrow money against their TIAA-CREF retirement accounts. Pitt retirees aged 65 or older will gain a new, Blue Cross-affiliated medical insurance option. Interim Chancellor Mark Nordenberg approved the new options […]