There are fifteen senate committees. The committees can be searched by clicking on their names along the side of this page. You will find meeting dates, membership rosters and meeting minutes. Chairs and co-chairs of Senate committees are considered members of Faculty Assembly. If you have any additonal questions, please contact the Senate Office at 412-624-6505.
Active Issues Under Consideration in Senate Committees
| Issue | Status | Committee |
Contact |
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Name, Image & Likeness (NIL) and Pitt Wellness & Recreation Center |
Ongoing | Athletics & Recreation | Mike Epitropoulos |
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Examining on campus faculty and staff health resources; ways that our various benefits apply to faculty, staff and family members who are out of state |
Ongoing | Benefits & Welfare | Linda Tashbook |
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Planning and Budgeting Oversight RCM & Shaping the Workplace Initiative |
Ongoing |
Budget Policies | |
| Campus safety, policy review for safety & campus environment, Senate capital budget process input, Year of Wellbeing and the Campus environment | Ongoing | CUPS | Jeanine Buchanich or David Salcido |
| Data Privacy. How can we standardize information about where to go when challenges arise? | Ongoing | CITC | Ilia Murtazashvili |
| Classroom recordings, Assessment of teaching and ACIE, Growth and assesment of Outlier | Ongoing | Ed. Policies | |
| Disability advocacy on campus also looking into the frequency & circumstances surrounding transcipt witholding @ Pitt | Ongoing | EIADAC | Ally Bove or Natasha Tokowicz |
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The SLC is working on an initiative to promote Pitt scholars whose work is public-facing and/or supportive of expanding possibilities for open scholarship. In line with this effort, a project is underway to write a series of profiles for the University Times. |
Ongoing | Library | Karen Shephard |
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Working with HR and Faculty Affairs to promote DEI in hiring across research and in particular focusing on how to retain research faculty and employees. Working with UPSOM and UPMC to better enable IT crossover with Pitt and facilitation of research data sharing and access to patient records for research |
Ongoing | Research | Melanie Scott or Katherine Wood |
| Support for Students who Observe Ramadan (transportation, meal availability, etc), Student academic performance in a test-optional admissions environment, Data security issues for students, campus security | ongoing | SAAA | Nancy Glynn or Sybil Streeter |
