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UPMC will make the U.S. Steel Tower its new corporate headquarters. The new site in Downtown will consolidate UPMC’s corporate, administrative and integrated business functions in one location and reflects UPMC’s commitment to the city and the community. UPMC initially will lease five floors with 185,000 square feet of space and will lease as much […]

Welcome to the New Benefits Newsletter! To help keep faculty and staff up to date on changes in events affecting benefits, the Benefits Buzz will now appear on a more frequent basis and within the University Times. As always, feel free to give us your feedback at: feedback@exchange.hr.pitt.edu or 412-624-8160 Open Enrollment Is Here! All […]

Hillman Library will be open continuously from 9 a.m. Saturday, April 21 until 10 p.m. Friday, April 27. During the 24-hour schedule, a University ID is required to enter between midnight and 7 a.m. Services available during all hours of operation are: Current Periodical Room; computers on the ground floor (database/electronic resources searching); CSSD lab […]

Pitt employees will see premium increases as well as certain co-payment and prescription drug cost increases for the health plan year that begins July 1. According to Human Resources officials, the overall increase to Pitt’s medical plans, which are administered by UPMC Health Plan, is 3.9 percent. Regionally and nationally, health care renewals, after adjustments […]

May 4 is the nomination deadline for the 2007 Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award. The award is presented to the outstanding Pitt program area that, or individual who, has made a significant contribution in affirmative action. Program areas are preferred over individuals. For purposes of the award, affirmative action has been defined as “increase of access […]

A new report by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) shows that average salaries for professors at Pitt’s Oakland campus for 2006-07 were higher than the average at similar schools nationwide. Although Pitt administrators use a group of 34 public Association of American Universities (AAU) institutions for benchmarking salary comparisons for the Pittsburgh campus, […]

The tragedy at Virginia Tech this week has prompted questions nationwide about campus security and emergency communication in general. In the aftermath, Pitt Police Chief Timothy R. Delaney has been fielding his share of inquiries from the media, employees and worried parents. The incident at Virginia Tech has prompted numerous “what-ifs” and worried concerns about […]

Faculty Assembly last week endorsed a policy change in the Faculty Handbook to add at a school’s discretion “community service” as a weighted factor in promotion and tenure decisions. At the April 4 Assembly, Andrew Blair, vice provost for Faculty Affairs, reported that Provost James Maher had approved the change, which was recommended by the […]

A new University Senate subcommittee convened to address sustainability issues — recycling, “green” building practices, energy efficiency and others — at Pitt got off to a roaring start last week. Building on suggestions by subcommittee chair Attilio “Buck” Favorini (see University Times April 5 Senate Matters column), the group, which was formed by the Senate […]

Benefits were the hot topic at the Staff Association Council’s (SAC) April 11 meeting. SAC President Rich Colwell, who is a member of the University-wide medical advisory committee, reported on the three most prominent changes in the UPMC Health Plan, set to go into effect July 1. The biggest changes, Colwell said, are higher premiums […]