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Download the Latest Issuepdf F E A T U R E I N T H I S I S S U E Investing for retirement? Chief Tim Delaney provides a A TIAA-CREF strategist offers detailed look at the G-20 Pittsburgh Summit events from behind police some new rules on what you should lines...................................................3 — and shouldn’t — do. Progress is to blame for the chaos See page 5. that is health care, a lecturer here U N I V E R S I T Y says....................................................6 TIMES VOLUME 42 • NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 15, 2009 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH State budget passes but Pitt Most of first H1N1 vaccine here reserved for students Pitt has received its first batch of H1N1 vaccine, but faculty still awaiting appropriation and staff will have to wait a while longer before the vaccine is available to them. lthough the state budget lor for Governmental Relations, While the University is not The first batch of 1,200 doses of the nasal spray vaccine, which signed Oct. 9 by Gov. told the University Times he is directly getting involved in the is appropriate only for healthy people ages 2-49 who are not preg- AEdward G. Rendell awaiting the exact figures from table games issue, Supowitz said, nant, is being distributed beginning today, Oct. 15, to Pittsburgh includes nearly $168 million for the DPW, but expected that Pitt Pitt officials are stressing to leg- campus students who pre-registered online. Pitt, University administrators would receive an estimated $17.4 islators the urgency of resolving According to John Fedele, associate director of news, another aren’t betting on when Pitt’s million in state and federal funding the table games matter. “It’s the 200 doses of the nasal spray have been distributed to Student budget will be finalized. through the DPW budget. final piece of the whole revenue Health Service workers and emergency responders, such as the The state’s $27.8 billion fiscal Legislators now are pulling picture for the Commonwealth,” Pitt police. “The H1N1 flu is impacting younger persons, those year 2010 general fund budget together the details for a plan Supowitz said. up to 24 years of age, at a higher rate than other groups within includes more than $160.4 million to bring table games to Penn- The University’s appropriation our population. For this reason, students have been targeted for in state funds and $7.5 million in sylvania’s casinos, a move that is bill, which matches the general vaccination at this time,” Fedele said. “Based on the doses available federal American Recovery and expected to bring $200 million in fund’s total of $168 million in in each subsequent shipment, decisions will be made regarding Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimu- taxes and fees to the state coffers. support for Pitt, is one House their distribution.” lus money for the University as Separate bills are under consid- vote away from going to the gov- The four regional campuses have requested, but not yet received, part of its education budget. eration in the House and Senate. ernor for approval. But, until that the vaccine, he said. “We anticipate that in the coming weeks, each However, until a table games Supowitz clarified that table games appropriation bill is passed, the campus will receive a supply of nasal spray and an ample supply of bill is passed, those numbers will not be a revenue source for the state has no authority to release the injectable form of the H1N1 vaccine,” Fedele said. merely represent “expected” University, but rather “just one the monthly increment of $15 Pitt has a web site for updates on H1N1-related news available at amounts, said state budget office small piece of the revenue picture” million - $16 million Pitt typically www.pitt.edu/swine-flu. n spokesperson Susan Hooper. Pitt’s for the state’s budget. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 appropriation bill will be consid- ered “after we get the bill for the table games,” Hooper said. Pitt tops all public schools in neighborliness Before Pitt’s appropriation can be released, the legislature must itt is the nation’s top- qualitative esprit of the institution pass a separate appropriation ranked public “Best ’Tis the season for rankings, apparently. In addition in its engagement, and recognition bill for Pitt. (As institutions not PNeighbor” educational to making Mr. Rogers proud with its neighborliness, of the impact of these institutions entirely under the state’s control, institution in the 2009 edition of Pitt has been included in other recent surveys: AARP’s within their communities. Pitt, Penn State, Temple and Lin- “Saviors of Our Cities: A Survey ranking of best employers for the over-50 crowd; the Dobelle cited Pitt’s Commu- coln universities receive their state of Best College and University nity Outreach Partnership Center, funding through non-preferred Civic Partnerships.” top 200 universities worldwide, and an evaluation of the the selection of the city as the site appropriations that are approved The top 25 institutions listed “green” policies of major U.S. schools. For the details, of the 2009 G-20 Summit and the in individual bills after the general in the rankings “were selected see page 2. PITT ARTS program, which con- fund budget is finalized.) because of their positive impact nects students to the city’s cultural The medical school’s portion on their urban communities, this week’s announcement of the among all of the nation’s public and art scene. of state funding, which comes including both commercial and results by Evan S. Dobelle, the universities in the Saviors of Our With respect to the economic through the Department of Public residential activities such as survey’s author. He is president of Cities survey is a wonderful form criteria considered in the rank- Welfare, isn’t impacted by the revitalization, cultural renewal, Westfield State College in Mas- of recognition for those efforts ings, Dobelle cited the following lack of an appropriations bill. economics and community service sachusetts and former president of and their impact.” statistics of Pitt’s annual impact Paul A. Supowitz, vice chancel- and development,” according to the New England Board of Higher This is the second Saviors of on the local economy: Education. Our Cities ranking; in the first, • $5.6 billion in earnings by Maintaining that the cur- issued in 2006, Pitt was ranked nearly 74,800 Pitt alumni residing Scholarship drive to be launched rent state of the U.S. economy 6th among public institutions and in Allegheny County; Pitt’s African American Alumni Council (AAAC) will launch the makes the economic relationship 18th among all schools. • $1.74 billion in total Univer- public phase of its $3 million scholarship campaign as part of its Oct. between institutions of higher The Saviors of Our Cities sity-related spending; 24 Distinguished African American Alumni Awards banquet gala. education and their local commu- rankings “are composed of aca- • $1.3 billion in personal Led by AAAC President Linda Wharton-Boyd and chaired by nities “more important than ever,” demic institutions diverse in size, income generated from nearly Douglas Browning, the scholarship campaign seeks to aid students Dobelle released the report’s find- geography and course offerings,” 33,800 Pitt-supported jobs; from underrepresented groups through three funds: the Bebe Moore ings during the annual conference according to the survey. “They • $642 million in sponsored Campbell Scholarship Fund, the Jack L. Daniel Endowed Book Fund of the Coalition of Urban and have demonstrated and docu- research, supporting more than and the AAAC Endowed Scholarship Fund. Metropolitan Universities. mented long-standing cooperative 23,100 jobs; The late Bebe Moore Campbell, a Pitt alumna and best-selling When ranked with all institu- efforts with community leaders to • $151.7 million in direct and author, also was a Pitt trustee. Distinguished Service Professor of tions of higher education, public rehabilitate the cities around them, induced expenditures associated Communication Jack L. Daniel, former vice provost for undergradu- and private, Pitt was tied for to influence community revitaliza- with people visiting Pitt; ate studies and dean of students, was a student leader at Pitt during second place in the survey with tion and cultural renewal, and to • $145.2 million to communi- the 1960s. the University of Dayton. The encourage economic expansion of ties, including sales, wage and real The fundraising effort is part of the University’s $2 billion Build- University of Pennsylvania and the local economy, urban develop- estate taxes, and ing Our Future Together capital campaign, which to date has raised the University of Southern Cali- ment and community service.” • $140.7 million average $1.38 billion. fornia were tied for first place in Among the assessment crite- annual investment on construc- The awards gala is part of AAAC’s homecoming weekend themed the survey. ria in the survey were length of tion from FY 2006 through FY “Blue, Black and Gold: The Colors of Celebration,” during which “Over the course of recent involvement with the community; 2008, generating more than 1,300 AAAC will showcase four decades of African-American progress years, the role that our Univer- real dollars invested; the presence jobs in construction and related at Pitt. The celebration of 40 years is tied to 1969 when a student sity has played in this region’s felt through payroll, research and industries. group, the Black Action Society, occupied Pitt’s computer center and rebirth has been cited with envy purchasing power; faculty and stu- The survey results are available called for the University to address the inadequate number of black by observers from other parts of dent involvement in community at www.prnewswire.com/news- students, faculty, administrators and staff; to provide academic support the country,” said Pitt Chancellor service; continued sustainability releases/2009-survey-names- and resources for black students, and to recognize the significance of Mark A.
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