University Times

“I’ll cut to the chase and address why an aging white guy is talking to you about race and the media,” said Mark Roth, senior staff writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, at a Center on Race and Social Problems Feb. 17 lecture. Roth, who has more than 30 years of experience as a newspaper writer […]

Wages for average working women in the region and the nation continue to lag behind their male counterparts. To explore the causes of the pay gap — and efforts to eliminate the disparity — Pitt hosted a daylong conference Feb. 20 titled “The Gender Wage Gap: Strategies for the Future.” Featured were two keynote speakers; […]

Equal pay for equal work is more than simply a women’s issue, said keynote speaker Jocelyn Frye. “Even though we often talk about it in gender terms it’s clearly not just a women’s issue,” she said. “These days it’s much more than a gender issue; it’s really an economic security issue.” In spite of the […]

The disgraced investment fund operators who are accused of spending institutional money — including a chunk of Pitt’s endowment — to fund extravagant lifestyles have asked a U.S. District Court judge in New York to release more than $1 million in frozen assets to cover living and other expenses. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), […]

Faculty Assembly last week amended its resolution urging Pitt units to provide private space for new mothers to pump breast milk. A similar resolution was passed by Assembly in January, but the wording was altered to accommodate an objection from the senior administration, according to Paul Munro, chair of the University Senate’s plant utilization and […]

Michael D. Jones, Public Broadcasting System (PBS) chief operating officer, will be the keynote speaker at the 21st annual commencement ceremony at Pitt-Greensburg, scheduled for 11 a.m. April 25 in Chambers Hall. Prior to joining PBS in January, Jones was senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. FINRA […]