The committee searching for a new president of Pitt's Greensburg campus has narrowed the list of candidates to three unranked finalists whose names will be presented to Provost James Maher on May 13. According to Joan Cutone, who is providing staff support for the search, the names will not be released until they have been […]
UPG search down to 3 >
May 1st, 1997Committee examining relationship between Pitt, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center System >
May 1st, 1997If you can offer insights into the relationship between Pitt and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center System (UPMCS), a new University Senate committee wants to talk with you — confidentially, if you'd prefer. The committee is studying whether the University's academic mission is compatible with the business goals of UPMCS, which is a separate […]
Pitt, UPMCD, UPMCS: Keeping it all straight is difficult >
May 1st, 1997The relationships between Pitt, its University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Division (UPMCD) and the separate corporation called the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center System (UPMCS) are so complex that even Pitt's Board of Trustees was fuzzy about them. So last year, the board's health sciences committee undertook a special project to trace the histories of […]
Probable cause found in discrimination suit against Pitt >
May 1st, 1997The Pittsburgh Human Relations Commission late last month found probable cause that Pitt discriminated against a former law school faculty member by refusing to extend health care benefits to her same-sex partner. Deborah Henson, who left Pitt in April 1996 to become a judicial clerk with the Louisiana Supreme Court, filed the discrimination suit against […]
Drue Heinz prize winner writes from Portuguese-American view >
May 1st, 1997After 30 sleepless hours spent doing rewrites on her second novel, Katherine Vaz was too dazed to appreciate what was being said when the call came informing her that she had won the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Award. As the University Press's Ed Ochester congratulated her on the award for her short story collection, "Fado […]
Cathedral Publishing: Filling a small press nitch on campus >
May 1st, 1997Have a best-seller from the turn of the century or an Abbie Hoffman tome from the '60s that you would love to use in a class, but can't because it's out of print? Or maybe it's a collection of your own articles or those of colleagues that you would like to use in your teaching, […]