N O T I C E I N T H I S I S S U E Written any books lately? The Pitt’s Center for Biologic Imaging deadline for this year’s edition of the creates art with its science.........6 & 7 University Times Books, Journals Women need to advocate more & More supplement is Jan. 31. For for themselves in the workplace, a speaker here tells a business submission form, go to www.utimes. school audience.................................8 pitt.edu/?page_id=8465. U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES VOLUME 43 • NUMBER 9 JANUARY 6, 2011 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Compromise possible on budget info sought by Senate committee he Senate budget policies director Steve Pederson to a public but we’d apportion them using committee (BPC) may meeting and wanted the document the respective percentages by Treceive some of the Uni- made public to permit discussion responsibility center,” he said. versity financial information it of the Athletics budget with him. Every third year, the actual report has been seeking. BPC members (See Dec. 4, 2008, University Times.) would be generated. responded favorably to a proposal That discussion has never taken BPC member James Cassing by the University’s chief financial place, nor has the report been of economics agreed that year-to- officer Arthur G. Ramicone to made public. year changes likely would not be prepare a revenue and cost attribu- More recently, BPC and large, but that it is useful to have tion report every three years, with UPBC members have debated a sense of how much each area less-detailed reports presented in what alternative information within the University is subsi- Pitt among top 5 for the two intervening years. Previ- might take the place of the report. dized. “I think it’s really useful to ously, the full report had been “We don’t lack for data,” do it, but to do it and talk about it prepared annually. Ramicone said at the Dec. 10 every three years seems reasonable most improvement in While the University Plan- BPC meeting, noting that his to me,” he said. ning and Budgeting Committee office reports University financial BPC’s Baker said, “I under- (UPBC) must approve the plan as information to the state and other stand the problem with the work 6-year graduation rate well, BPC chair John J. Baker said government entities regularly. involved with generating it, espe- many BPC members “strongly Revenue and expense information cially if it’s not being used by the itt ranked among the top Mason University, which rose to support this as an idea and would and tuition data could be provided people putting together budgets. five public research insti- 61 percent; Georgia State, which like to see it go forward.” to BPC, but Ramicone noted that There are a lot of academic deci- Ptutions in the increase of rose to 44 percent, and Temple, The report, which the Office would require the committee to sions that go into deciding what a six-year graduation rates over the which rose to 66 percent. of Budget and Controller prepares put it into cohesive form to make particular unit’s budget should be past five years. Graduation rates on Juan J. Manfredi, vice provost for UPBC, shows the revenues it useful. That prompted him to and they’re not reflected by this the Pittsburgh campus increased for Undergraduate Studies, said and expenses attributable to each propose that his staff prepare a full document.” 12 percentage points from 2003 Pitt is proud of its progress, adding of the University’s academic units report every three years. “It really Still, he said, the faculty want to 2008, according to an analysis that the University aspires to a six- and other responsibility centers. seems fair in terms of who’s going the document and find it useful. published last month in The year rate comparable to or better Ramicone said the document to know the information better “I think part of that is because we Chronicle of Higher Education. than the best public research is time-consuming to prepare, than us,” he told BPC, adding that don’t see the other information Of freshmen entering Pitt in schools in the nation. estimating that each attribution eliminating the preparation of a that the administration gets.” fall 1997, 65 percent had gradu- Additional gains are needed to report takes 300-350 hours of staff full report every year would cut BPC member Phil Wion con- ated by 2003. For freshmen enter- move into the company Pitt wants time. “The discussion has been the workload for his staff as well. tinued to advocate for the value ing in fall 2002, 76 percent had to keep. Although it ranked among over the years to kill it because the He noted that there tend not of the report’s Athletics financial graduated by 2008, according to the fastest risers, the University’s senior administration has always to be large changes from one year data, noting that the most recent federal Integrated Postsecondary 76 percent rate placed it behind 25 said they don’t rely on this docu- to the next in how the institu- attribution report showed that Education Data System (IPEDS) other public research universities ment to make resource allocations tion allocates its resources to the the revenue-producing sports data. in the Chronicle ranking. to the units,” he said. various responsibility centers. He of football and men’s basketball San Diego State topped the list The University of Virginia led The document — and the value proposed that current revenues were generating more revenue of public research schools with the the list with a six-year graduation of it — has become the subject of and expenses for each area be than they were costing, thereby highest six-year graduation rate rate of 93 percent in 2008, fol- much debate since BPC sought provided, but that the University’s subsidizing in part non-revenue gain, rising 17 percentage points lowed by the College of William UPBC permission to discuss the support for each be in the form sports. “That’s a good thing for to a 2008 rate of 61 percent. and Mary (91 percent) and the report in open session. UPBC of a percentage. “We’d use the the University. Lots of institutions Pitt’s gain of 12 percentage University of California-Berkeley has since declared the document actual expenses from each year, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 points was shared by George (90 percent.) private and questioned its useful- Manfredi said, “The factors ness in aiding understanding of that have played into our current University finances. UPBC meet- steady increase are ones that we ings are not open to the public. are confident will continue to have According to minutes from Pitt launches 2nd coach search a positive effect on our retention UPBC’s Feb. 19, 2009, meeting, itt is looking for a head mother of his 21-month-old child, backwards, resulting in bodily and graduation rates,” although the committee passed the fol- football coach — again — in the presence of the child, a class injury, to wit ... dark red marks on he would not estimate how long lowing motion by a vote of 21 in Pfollowing its Jan. 1 firing D felony. her neck and lower face/jaw area.” it might take to lift Pitt’s six-year favor, none opposed and three of recently hired coach Michael A. The police report alleges that Haywood posted $1,000 cash graduation rate to among the top abstentions: “While the commit- Haywood after he was arrested in following an argument, Haywood bond and was released Jan. 1. He schools. tee values transparency of the fiscal South Bend, Ind., on a domestic “wrapped his arm around the neck was arraigned in South Bend on Manfredi said Pitt’s rising affairs of the University, the sub- battery charge. of Beth A. Marriott and threw her Jan. 3, Dvorak’s office said. The graduation rate is a reflection committee report, ‘Revenue and Haywood, who coached the attending magistrate entered a not of the University’s commitment Cost Attribution,’ is not one that Miami University (Ohio) Red- guilty plea on Haywood’s behalf to undergraduate education, should be shared with other ele- Hawks the past two seasons, was and ordered him not to have any re-emphasized in the Univer- ments of the University’s internal named successor to Dave Wannst- contact with the woman. The sity trustees’ 1996 resolution to governance structure unless those edt Dec. 16 by Steve Pederson, magistrate scheduled another aggressively pursue academic elements are willing to maintain director of Athletics. Wannstedt hearing for Jan. 11 to establish a excellence. (See Feb. 29, 1996, confidentiality.” resigned Dec. 6 after six seasons as court date. University Times.) The most recent attribution head coach and was named special If convicted, Haywood could Pitt’s 2010 freshman class had report presented to BPC, which assistant to Pederson. be sentenced to 6-18 months in an average high school grade point covered fiscal year 2007, was According to court documents jail, Dvorak said. average of 3.91, with 51 percent presented in draft form during provided by Michael A. Dvorak, In a prepared statement Jan. graduating in the top 10 percent of a closed session at BPC’s May 2, St. Joseph County (Ind.) prosecu- Michael Haywood was intro- 1, Chancellor Mark Norden- their class and 78 percent graduat- 2008, meeting. tor, Haywood, 46, was arrested duced as Pitt’s 35th football berg said in part, “After careful ing in the top 20 percent.