University Times

Gordon K. MacLeod Professor, health services administration, Graduate School of Public Health, and clinical professor of medicine, School of Medicine.

Current member of Faculty Assembly (since 1994), Senate Council (since 1995) and the benefits and welfare committee (since 1991).

At a time when the Senate is focusing its attention increasingly on employee health benefits and the relationship between Pitt and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, MacLeod sees himself as a link between the upper and lower campuses.

Although his background is in the health professions (MacLeod launched the federal HMO program and is a former Pennsylvania Secretary of Health), he also has been active in Provost area and University-wide governance issues. He served on the chancellor search committee last year and was a faculty representative on the Board of Trustees health sciences committee from 1992 to 1996, among his other service.

In his position statement as a candidate, MacLeod cited "perennial and newly developing issues" confronting the Senate, including: faculty participation in seeking support from state lawmakers, "critically examining incipient academic corporatism," championing "warranted salary increases for faculty and staff," helping to determine how health care and other benefits will be allocated, implementing a new retirement program, establishing close working relationships between the University Senate and faculty leaders from the Senates or councils of individual academic units, strengthening connections between Pittsburgh campus faculty and faculty at the regional campuses, and examining what he called the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's ongoing absorption of the academic components of the Health Sciences schools.