At Tuesday’s meeting, Student Government Board introduced a new allocations bill that it plans to vote on at the next meeting. The bill changes the monetary caps for requests to attend competitions and speaker honoraria, as well as deadlines to submit allocations requests. SGB President Ryan Young explained that traditionally, any monetary request over $1,000.
Before Pennsylvania lawmakers adjourned for their summer break this year, they failed to pass a bill that would provide select universities, including Pitt, with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. This article offers a look into the history, process and people behind this bill.
Chancellor Joan Gabel announced that the search for a new provost is “getting ready to launch” at the first Senate Council meeting of the academic year. “It’s a full national search on-campus, internal, external will all be considered and I’m very much looking forward to it,” Gabel said. Senate Council met Thursday afternoon in.