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CCAC faculty weigh walkout amid push for wage hike
Starting wages for faculty at the Community College of Allegheny County are among the lowest in the state. Seven months into contract negotiations, 96% of union members back a strike authorization.
Can GLP-1s trim more than weight? Effect on drug use, crime to be studied in Pittsburgh.
The $13.3 million study will be one of the largest and broadest looks at whether and how the popular weight loss drugs can impact a variety of social ills.
Timeline: Feds subpoena Pitt, others alleging visa fraud
A timeline of federal higher ed changes and responses by Pittsburgh-area colleges and universities.
City, county leaders want more diverse contracting from ALCOSAN
Pittsburgh Mayor O’Connor and Allegheny County Executive Innamorato called for improvement following a Pittsburgh’s Public Source report on the diversity numbers in a $1 billion sewer tunnel contract. Neither got specific.
Minority contractors largely absent from ALCOSAN’s billion-dollar tunnel plan
The sewer agency aims to steer 10% to 25% of project dollars to minority- or women-owned business enterprises. For its big dig along the Ohio River, the prime contract shows less than 1% of the work heading to MBEs, with 9% to WBEs.
My mother grieved my transition. What if she’d had a chatbot?
I’m glad my mom didn’t have a chatbot in 2020. But I wrote the play “AURA” to explore how AI will change the way parents process queerness.
CMU got a record $3 billion donation toward a new campus. What does that mean for Pittsburgh?
Hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin’s unprecedented donation will go largely to a new Miami campus for Carnegie Mellon University, but Pittsburgh will see investment in computer science and unspecified priorities.
With federal aid stalled, Pitt offers med students notes to landlords
The university is offering students food and household products while they resolve a jam in loan money stemming from new Department of Education codes.
Professor Claude? College unions negotiate for protection against AI teachers and evaluators.
As AI threatens to supplant jobs and possibly upend teaching norms, university faculty, grad students and staff at Pitt seek security through contracts.
When the Steelers sell tickets, here’s how much the public sector gets
Acrisure Stadium will fill this weekend for the Steelers’ opener. Public Source asked: How much ticket revenue flows to the public, which largely paid for the venue?
CMU admin could repaint Fence in emergency under new guidelines
Carnegie Mellon’s icon of campus expression has traditionally been governed entirely by students, but a year of controversy has led the administration to assert the right to repaint to avert “physical harm.”
Bill to limit new short-term rentals in Pittsburgh stalls as planning commission awaits legal review
More than 30 people spoke before the City Planning Commission, largely favoring regulation of Airbnbs and their like, but a vote on new rules will have to wait.
PRT’s bus route ‘refresh’ could have short shelf life, unless state steps up
PRT hopes that a comprehensive redesign of its system can generate enough momentum to avoid painful cuts in service in a few years. The plan would shrink the agency’s footprint area while boosting weekend service.
On Penn Avenue, First Friday’s Unblurred vision peers into the future
Garfield’s arts crawl has grown from gallery walls into a network of bars, studios and street-level encounters. Nearby development hasn’t dulled the artists’ determination to enliven the neighborhood.
‘It’s not going to be the same.’ Back-to-school in Pittsburgh bittersweet ahead of closures.
With 12 schools set to shutter next year or beyond, PPS parents brace for different teachers, class-sizes and cultures from those they and their children have known.
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