University Times

The 18th annual Mark M. Ravitch History of Medicine lecture will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in Scaife Hall’s lecture room 5. An incorrect date was listed in the Feb. 22 University Times.

HARRISBURG — “Once you get yourself into a hole, it’s really hard to climb out,” Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg told state House of Representatives appropriations committee members Feb. 27 as he testified about Pitt’s budget needs alongside fellow presidents of Pennsylvania’s three other state-related universities. Later in the day Nordenberg reiterated the message to Senate […]

After a lengthy search, Pitt has named John T.S. Keeler dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, effective July 1. Keeler, a scholar of European politics and transatlantic relations and comparative public policy, is a professor of political science and chair of the Division of French and Italian Studies at the University […]

Among the 30 full professors in Pitt’s Katz Graduate School of Business, the average nine-month contract salary was $138,469 as of Oct. 31, 2005. That’s not counting consultation fees or other non-Pitt compensation that those professors may have received. During the same period, the 21 technical, skilled and service staff in the Office of Human […]

In the Management Information and Analysis report reviewed by the Senate budget policies committee on March 2, staff salary averages and medians, as of October 2005, were broken down into four categories: • Executive, administrative and managerial employees. • Other professionals. • Secretarial and clerical. • Technical, skilled and service. To avoid revealing individuals’ pay, […]

In the Management Information and Analysis report, faculty in each responsibility center are broken down into academic ranks: professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor and lecturer/other. To avoid revealing individuals’ pay, average and median salary figures were omitted from the report for faculty categories that did not have more than three faculty members. Thus, some […]