INSIDE Margaret E. Wilkes Scholarship..................... 3 Lung research at Pitt................................. 4 PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume X • Number 16 • May 26, 2009 Cynthia Golden Named Director of Pitt’s CIDDE Pitt to Host Working Class Studies By John Fedele Cynthia Golden, a vice president of the cially with its Learning Initiative, has Association Conference on Class Matters nonprofit professional association EDU- brought her into close contact with key lead- CAUSE, has been named the new director ers and practitioners in teaching and learn- of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center ing. She is responsible for the association’s for Instructional Development and Dis- conference and professional development tance Education (CIDDE), activities and leadership effective August 1, 2009, and management programs Pitt Provost James V. and institutes, as well as its Maher has announced. content and knowledge man- Based in Washington, agement initiatives. D.C., and Boulder, Colo., Prior to joining EDU- EDUCAUSE serves higher CAUSE in 2001, Golden held education information senior management posi- technology professionals tions at Duquesne University, in the areas of instruction where she led the educa- and learning, research tional technology area and and scholarship, and man- served as executive director agement and leadership. of computing and technology Golden, who works for services and codirector of the EDUCAUSE out of its Center for Distance Learn- D.C. office, earned her ing. Her work at Duquesne Master of Science degree Cynthia Golden included leading all aspects in information science at of instructional design, dis- Pitt in 1983 and graduated cum laude with tance education, computer labs, media a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University services, and other technology units, and of Pennsylvania in 1980. working closely with the provost, deans, and “Cynthia Golden is an experienced faculty. Prior to her work at Duquesne, she By Patricia Lomando White manager and leader, with a strong back- was a manager in the Information Systems ground in strategic planning, budgeting, and group at MIT. Golden’s career began in The 2009 conference of the Working Union, and Nelson Harrison and the Pitts- organizational development. I look forward 1984 at Carnegie Mellon University, where Class Studies Association (WCSA) will burgh Jazz Network All-Stars; a dramatic to working with her as she and members of she held the position of associate director of be held June 3-6 in the University of Pitts- adaptation of Thomas Bell’s “Out of This the CIDDE staff continue to strengthen the administrative systems. burgh’s William Pitt Union. The biennial Furnace”; and “The Point of Pittsburgh,” instructional development and support ser- Golden has written extensively for gathering—four days of panels, workshops, a history of the city told through readings, vices available to faculty of the University,” professional publications and edited and and performances—draws hundreds of music, and visual art. In addition, tours Maher commented in announcing Golden’s contributed to the EDUCAUSE book Culti- activists, artists, educators, scholars, and have been arranged to historical sites in appointment. vating Careers: Professional Development students from around the world. the valleys of the Monongahela, Ohio, and Golden’s work at EDUCAUSE, espe- for Campus IT. The conference comes to Pittsburgh Allegheny rivers. after stints in Youngstown, “The conference Ohio, and St. Paul, Minn. caps off the Pittsburgh This year’s conference “Pittsburgh is the right 250 celebration by look- theme is Class Matters. ing at the city’s history of PITT ARTS Cheap Seat Sales Soar 20 Percent “Pittsburgh is the place for an event on production and struggle, right place for an event the theme of Class how time and again the played a key role in the program’s success. on the theme of Class aims of political and cor- In 2006, Pittsburgh Opera was the first Matters,” said Nicholas Matters. Aside from porate elites collided with participating arts presenter to develop a Coles, conference orga- homegrown, organized Web site that allowed Pitt constituents to nizer and a professor in being attractive to resistance—how this pay the same price for a Cheap Seats ticket Pitt’s Department of Eng- class-based resistance purchased online that they would have lish. “Aside from being visitors, the city has a often created improved paid at the PITT ARTS office. The Pitts- attractive to visitors, the conditions,” said confer- burgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh city has a deep tradition deep tradition of indus- ence cochair Charles Public Theater, Pittsburgh Civic Light of industry, labor, and try, labor, and ethnic McCollester, director of Opera, MCG Jazz, and Pittsburgh Ballet ethnic migrations, and the Pennsylvania Center Theatre followed suit. Patrons making now the turn to a greener migrations, and now the for Labor Relations and purchases online or at the PITT ARTS economy. The time is professor of industrial office in the William Pitt Union pick up right, too. Understand- turn to a greener econ- and labor relations at their tickets at the performance venue’s ing how class affects us Indiana University of Will Call window, where they show their socially and economi- omy. The time is right, Pennsylvania (IUP). Pitt IDs. cally may be more impor- The conference is The total 2008-09 participation num- tant now than any period too. Understanding how supported by WCSA, bers for PITT ARTS programming was since the 1930s.” class affects us socially IUP’s labor center, and By Sharon S. Blake 42,843, 11.5 percent more than in 2007-08. Conference speak- Pitt’s School of Arts and The Free Visits program, which allows ers include labor histo- and economically may Sciences, as well as by PITT ARTS, which connects Pitt stu- students to swipe Pitt IDs for free admis- rian David Montgomery, programs and volunteers dents to the city’s cultural hub, reached a sion to five Pittsburgh museums and the the Farnam Professor be more important now from Pitt’s Departments new milestone during the 2008-09 academic Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gar- of History Emeritus at of English, Anthropol- year with more than 12,000 tickets sold in dens, benefited 19,018 students in 2008-09, Yale University, on class than any period since ogy, History, and Soci- its Cheap Seats Program. 250 more than in the previous year. Nearly and empire; educator Ira ology and the Cultural The program allows Pitt students, 8,000 Pitt undergraduate students took Shor, a professor in the the 1930s.” Studies and Women’s faculty, and staff to purchase deeply dis- advantage of Arts Encounters, which pro- City University of New —Nicholas Coles S t u d i e s p r o g r a m s; counted tickets to the Pittsburgh Symphony vide Pitt students with free transportation York’s Graduate Center, Carlow University Wom- Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh to performances, catered receptions, and on class in the classroom; en’s Studies Program; Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, opportunities to meet artistic directors or Bill Fletcher Jr., director of Field Services Carnegie Mellon University Department Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh performers; that number was also higher and Education, American Federation of of English; Chatham University; Duquesne CLO Cabaret Theater, Quantum Theatre, than the previous year’s figure. Government Employees, on the current University Women’s and Gender Stud- MCG Jazz, and other area arts presenters. PITT ARTS was founded in 1997 as economic crisis; and Fred Redmond, inter- ies Center; Youngstown State University The ticket total—12,182—represents a way for Pitt undergraduate students to national vice-president, United Steelwork- Center for Working-Class Studies; the a 20 percent increase in Cheap Seats ticket experience arts and cultural programming ers, on labor and globalization. United Steelworkers of America; and the sales compared to sales during the 2007-08 at little or no cost. The PITT ARTS staff There also will be evening perfor- Battle of Homestead Foundation. For more academic year. conducts regular surveys to observe and mances, including music by Anne Feeney information, visit the conference Web site at PITT ARTS director Annabelle Clip- understand what young adults value in arts and Friends, Mike Stout and the Human www.workingclassstudies.pitt.edu. pinger says online ticket purchasing has experiences. 2 • Pitt Chronicle • May 26, 2009 UniversityUpdate leadership,” and as one are very important to those organizations can provide connections to more than 100 of “the larger cities but so is the fact that direct connections destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and that are hubs for jet can be made from most major European the Middle East from Paris. The initial flight airlines so that faculty cities to important business destinations schedule is as follows. can come and go.” in other parts of the world. In private con- Flight 188: Departs Pittsburgh at 6:15 Any comments versations, some major p.m. Arrives in Paris the next that I might make regional employers, with day at 8:20 a.m. about the first two of current leadership that “Now, of course, it is Flight 189: Departs those factors will need is very loyal to Pitts- most important that Paris at 10:40 a.m. Arrives to wait for another day. burgh, have gone so far in Pittsburgh at 1:55 p.m. However, as now is as to predict that without business and leisure Frequency of both painfully clear to all such nonstop air connec- flights: Monday, Wednes- of us, Pittsburgh’s loss tions, their companies travelers going from day, Thursday, Saturday, and of its “hub status” has almost certainly will Sunday. made it far less con- be forced to move their Pittsburgh to Europe, The aircraft to be uti- venient for members headquarters to some lized on this route will be a of our administration, better-served region.