We are your Union of Pitt Faculty Council of Representatives. The role of the Council of Representatives is (1) to oversee our contract negotiations and (2) to serve as a resource to colleagues in their area while negotiations are taking place. The Council of Representatives will elect, from its own ranks, a standing Bargaining Committee which will be responsible for formulating proposals and meeting with the administration, assisted by USW staff with expertise in negotiations, research, and the law.
Dietrich School
Humanities Division
Tenured or Tenure Stream
(T/TS)
Tyler Bickford
(English)
Bargaining Committee Chair
Giuseppina Mecchia
(French and Italian Languages and Literatures)
Omid Shekari
(Studio Arts)
Dietrich School
Humanities Division
Full-Time Non-Tenure Stream
(FT/NTS)
Gretchen Aiyangar
(Linguistics)
Marcelle Pierson
(Music)
Chair of the Council of Representatives
Dietrich School
Humanities Division
Part-Time Non-Tenure Stream
(PT/NTS)
Lech Harris
(English)
Tyler McAndrew
(English)
Sabrina Robinson
(Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Dietrich School
Natural Sciences Division
T|TS
Evan Schneider
(Physics and Astronomy)
Dietrich School
Natural Sciences Division
FT/NTS
Pete Bell
(Chemistry)
Melinda Ciccocioppo
(Psychology)
Communication and Action Team (CAT) Chair
Abagael West
(Biological Sciences)
Dietrich School
Natural Sciences Division
PT/NTS
Michael Schneier
(Mathematics)
Dietrich School
Social Sciences Division
T|TS
Michael Goodhart
(Political Science)
Dietrich School
Social Sciences Division
FT/NTS
James Hill
(History)
Dietrich School
Social Sciences Division
PT/NTS
Eugene DePasquale
(Political Science)
Dental Medicine
T|TS
Alejandro Almarza
(Oral and Craniofacial Sciences)
Dental Medicine
FT/NTS
Deb Polk
Professor of Dental Public Health
Dental Medicine
PT/NTS
Deborah Hart
(Restorative and Comprehensive Care)
Nursing
FT/NTS
Paul Scott
(Health and Community Systems)
Nursing
PT/NTS
Nicholas Bircher
(Nurse Anesthesia)
Pharmacy
FT/NTS
Victoria Grieve
(Pharmacy and Therapeutics)
Public Health
FT/NTS
Anthony Fabio
(Epidemiology)
Public Health
PT/NTS
Max Slater
(Health Policy and Management)
School of Health and
Rehabilitation Sciences
FT/NTS
Lea Sayce
(Communication Science and Disorders)
Michelle Varnell
(Sports Medicine and Nutrition)
Libraries
Chloe Dufour
(Hillman Library, ULS)
Helenmary Sheridan
(Health Sciences Library System)
Business
T|TS
Carrie Leana
(Organizations and Management)
Business
FT/NTS
Andrew Washburn
(Business Administration)
General Studies
Peter Gilmore
(History)
Education
T|TS
Eleanor Anderson
(Education Foundations, Organizations, and Policy)
Education
FT/NTS
Loretta Fernandez
(Teaching, Learning, and Leading)
Education
Falk Laboratory School
Lindsay O'Sullivan
(Grade 3)
Megan O’Brien
Engineering
FT/NTS
Amro El-Jaroudi
(Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Engineering
PT/NTS
Prahlad Menon
(Bioengineering)
GSPIA
T|TS
Sabina Deitrick
Law
T|TS
Philip Hackney
Law
FT/NTS
Stephanie Dangel
School of Computing
and Information
T|TS
C. Michael Lewis
(Informatics and Networked Systems)
School of Computing
and Information
FT/NTS
Marcia Rapchak
(Information Culture and Data Stewardship)
School of Computing and Information
PT/NTS
Stephen Ellis
(Computer Science)
Social Work
T|TS
Jeffrey Shook
Social Work
FT/NTS
Jennifer Caruso
Social Work
PT/NTS
Laura McCarthy
Bradford/Titusville
PT/NTS
Rekha Gajanan
(English)
Greensburg
T|TS
Stacey Triplette
(Spanish and French)
Greensburg
FT/NTS
Kelli Maloy
(English)
Greensburg
PT/NTS
Daniel Hitt
(English)
Johnstown
T|TS
Paul Newman
(History)
Johnstown
FT/NTS
Matthew Tracey
(Chemistry)
Formula for calculating positions
The positions on the Council of Representatives were determined in the following way, with the goal of approximating (as closely as integers allow) the proportions of faculty in the different schools and campuses as well as the proportions in different ranks, while also keeping it to a functional size:
- The faculty members of the bargaining unit were grouped together by the “segment” in which they have their primary appointment. Each of the schools on the Oakland campus is a segment, except that each division of the Dietrich School is treated as a separate segment (because it is so large), all three library systems are combined into one segment (because the Law Library especially is very small), and the Falk Laboratory School is treated as a separate segment from the School of Education (because the Falk teachers have unique terms and conditions of employment). Each regional campus is treated as a segment, except that Titusville is counted with Bradford (since the two campuses are now administratively a single responsibility center).
- Each segment gets three positions minimum, normally one for tenured and tenure stream faculty, one for full-time non-tenure stream faculty, and one for part-time non-tenure stream faculty (since these three job classes each represents about one third of the faculty bargaining unit). The libraries, the College of General Studies, and the Falk Laboratory School each gets three positions that can come from any rank.
- In order to approximate as closely possible the proportional size of each segment (as a subset of the bargaining unit) and the proportional size of each of the three job classes (in each segment), while also keeping the Council to a reasonable size, positions are added to larger segments in the following manner:
- An initial baseline of 64 positions is set, and each segment is allocated its share of those 64 positions based on its size relative to the bargaining unit, rounded to the nearest integer.
- Any segment that is allocated 3 or fewer positions based on those percentages is allocated 3 positions (thus increasing the number of positions to 3 in segments that would otherwise only get 1 or 2).
- In the segments that are allocated more than 3 positions, those positions are allocated according to the proportions of the three job classes in that segment, rounded to the nearest integer. (For example, 4 positions in a segment that was 50% T&TS, 25% FT/NTS, and 25% PT/NTS, would be allocated so that there were 2 T&TS positions, 1 FT/NTS position, and 1 PT/NTS position.)
- Any unallocated positions from the initial baseline are then added as positions that can come from any job class in that segment.
- Or, more formally: