University Times

New hoops coach introduced

Pitt officials named Ben Howland the new head men's basketball coach March 8, replacing Ralph Willard whose resignation became effective at the end of the Panthers' season. Howland, 41, is the former coach of Northern Arizona University, a team he led to three straight 20-win seasons, an NIT bid and the school's first-ever NCAA tournament berth.

The new coach played intercollegiate basketball at Weber State and played one season professionally in Uruguay before beginning his coaching career in 1981 as assistant coach at Gonzaga University. From there, Howland moved to California-Santa Barbara, where he was assistant coach for eight seasons, before taking the head coaching job at Northern Arizona in 1994.

Howland's 1996-97 team followed a 6-20 season by going 21-8, marking the 10th biggest single-season turnaround in NCAA annals. He is the 13th head basketball coach in Pitt's history. aAverage salaries range from low of Human Resources staff to high of medical school full professors

Among the 291 full professors in Pitt's School of Medicine last year, the average nine-month contract salary was $142,183.

Meanwhile, the 18 technical, skilled and service staff in the Office of Human Resources earned average salaries of $13,592 for 12 months' work.

Those highs and lows appeared in a report this month by Pitt's Office of Institutional Research in accordance with Pennsylvania's Financial Disclosure Law.

The report reveals mean (average) and median (mid-range) salaries for major ranks of full-time, non-union faculty, staff and administrators in each Pitt responsibility unit as of Oct. 31, 1998.

"Salary" as defined by the report includes all contract salaries paid by the University, whether the source was Pitt hard money salary funds, a research grant awarded to Pitt, an endowment or other source.

Salaries for faculty with 12-month contracts were converted to standard (nine-month) academic contracts. Staff salaries covered 12 months.

The report attributes employees' salaries to the responsibility centers through which their employee records were processed.

To avoid revealing individuals' salaries, the report does not list salaries for ranks and job classes with three or fewer employees. As a result, salary data is sketchy for some offices, especially smaller ones. For example, the Office of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees employs seven administrators and staff members in three job classifications (with no more than three employees in any classification), so the report lists only the average ($58,326) and mid-range ($39,528) salaries for that unit as a whole.

Staff/administration highs and lows

The report divides staff into four categories: executive, administrative and managerial; other professionals; secretarial and clerical; and technical, skilled and service.

It lists 12 units where executives, administrators and managers earned both mean and median salaries exceeding $60,000. Those units included:

The Office of Athletics (seven executives, administrators and managers) — $81,681 average, $66,960 mid-range.

The Bradford campus (six) — $67,854 average, $62,229 mid-range.

The Office of Budget and Controller (35) — $69,390 average, $63,318 mid-range.

The Katz Graduate School of Business (seven) — $72,056 average, $80,004 mid-range.

The Office of the Chancellor (17) — $93,871 average, $82,416 mid-range.

The Office of Computing and Information Services (22) — $65,574 average, $63,246 mid-range.

The Office of Facilities Management (six) — $73,193 average, $68,772 mid-range.

The Office of the General Counsel (seven) — $79,783 average, $81,912 mid-range.

The Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences (six) — $140,435 average, $142,557 mid-range.

The Office of Human Resources (13) — $70,317 average, $69,984 mid-range.

The Office of the Provost (52) — $89,862 average, $82,302 mid-range.

The Office of Student Affairs (12) — $66,293 average, $63,929 mid-range.

Staff groups in 23 units earned mean and median salaries of less than $20,000. They included:

* Technical, skilled and service employees in Human Resources, the School of Dental Medicine, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Administration and Student Affairs.

* Secretarial/clerical staff in athletics, the Office of Budget and Controller, the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Business, Computing and Information Services, dental medicine, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' humanities and social sciences divisions, the Greensburg campus, the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, Human Resources, the Office of Institutional Advancement, the Johnstown campus, the School of Nursing, the Office of the Provost, Student Affairs, the Titusville campus, the University Center for International Studies and the University Center for Social and Urban Research.

Faculty highs and lows

Professional and Health Sciences schools, especially those with large proportions of senior professors, had the highest-paid faculties. The four regional campuses had the lowest-paid faculties, on average.

Faculties at seven units earned average and mid-range salaries exceeding $60,000:

The Katz Graduate School of Business employed 73 faculty members who earned average and mid-range salaries of $81,835 and $76,875, respectively.

That included 33 full professors ($99,788 average, $98,560 mid-range), 17 associate professors ($66,873 average, $70,139 mid-range), 17 assistant professors ($69,260 average, $68,960 mid-range) and six faculty members in "other" ranks.

In the School of Engineering, 99 faculty members earned an average salary of $68,326 with a mid-range of $66,140.

The total included 44 full professors ($83,757 average, $84,307 mid-range), 37 associate professors ($61,025 average, $61,570 mid-range), 14 assistant professors ($51,413 average, $52,234 mid-range) and four others ($25,302 average, $24,818 mid-range).

In the arts and sciences division that includes the FAS dean's office and Mellon Professors, 10 professors earned $107,688 average and $98,229 mid-range salaries.

The 45 School of Law faculty members earned an average salary of $77,080, with a mid-range of $83,065.

That included 22 full professors ($105,458 average, $106,505 mid-range), four associate professors ($62,127 average, $58,596 mid-range), seven assistant professors ($61,087 average, $57,273 mid-range), four instructors ($36,645 average, $34,282 mid-range) and eight others ($40,730 average, $34,666 mid-range).

The Learning Research and Development Center employed three full professors and two assistant professors — not enough in either category for salary numbers by rank. Combined, the five faculty members earned $79,577 average and $92,308 mid-range salaries.

The School of Medicine, Pitt's largest academic unit, employed 1,394 faculty members who earned average and mid-range salaries of $100,639 and $90,865, respectively.

The total included 291 full professors ($142,183 average, $124,497 mid-range), 349 associate professors ($100,620 average, $92,250 mid-range), 647 assistant professors ($88,842 average, $81,818 mid-range), 100 instructors ($44,519 average, $34,798 mid-ran ge) and seven others, including department chairpersons ($266,668 average, $292,075 mid-range).

The 33 faculty in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs earned an average salary of $75,513, with $77,268 as the mid-range.

That included 17 full professors ($87,248 average, $87,251 mid-range), 10 associate professors ($72,627 average, $73,627 mid-range), and six assistant professors ($47,074 average, $50,437 mid-range).

Again last year, the regional campuses had the lowest average faculty salaries.

The Bradford campus's 74 faculty members earned an average of $41,525, with $40,156 as the mid-range.

The total included 10 full professors ($56,233 average, $56,442 mid-range), 23 associate professors ($45,538 average, $44,231 mid-range), 29 assistant professors ($37,238 average, $36,000 mid-range), eight instructors ($30,770 average, $29,492 mid-range) and four others ($34,267 average, $33,497 mid-range).

At Greensburg, 61 faculty members — not including three in the "other" category, who weren't figured into the total — earned an average salary of $41,695, with a mid-range of $40,686.

That included 10 full professors ($55,427 average, $56,226 mid-range), 24 associate professors ($44,959 average, $45,347 mid-range), 18 assistant professors ($35,612 average, $35,150 mid-range) and nine instructors ($29,899 average, $29,685 mid-range).

Johnstown employed 142 faculty members earning $44,405 average and $43,077 mid-range salaries.

The total included 19 full professors ($60,057 average, $61,255 mid-range), 68 associate professors ($46,968 average, $47,322 mid-range), 26 assistant professors ($34,648 average, $34,734 mid-range), 20 instructors ($31,644 average, $29,397 mid-range) and nine others ($48,540 average, $48,122 mid-range).

The Titusville campus is the only Pitt academic unit that does not offer four-year degree programs. It also does not employ any full professors.

Again last year, Titusville was the campus with the lowest average and mid-range faculty salaries: $33,677 and $34,554, respectively, among 22 faculty in the survey. The total included 10 associate professors ($38,040 average, $37,994 mid-range), eight as sistant professors ($32,755 average, $32,501 mid-range), four instructors ($24,613 average, $25,607 mid-range) and three others.

— Bruce Steele