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University of Pittsburgh. United Faculty
University of Pittsburgh
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Throughout its history the University of Pittsburgh has received occasional support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the early 1960s it suffered an unprecedented fiscal crisis and sought a solution that linked it to the Commonwealth. On August 23, 1966, House Bill No. 2 of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania was signed and the University officially became state-related.
The United Faculty, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and American Association of University Professors, formed in 1982 at the University of Pittsburgh out of the merger of the Pitt Professional Union and American Association of University Professors, which both lost the right to represent the faculty in collective bargaining negotiations in 1976. Throughout 1984 and 1985, United Faculty and the university were locked in a legal battle over representation issues which resulted in a ruling that stated the union must represent all full-time and part-time faculty members with the exception of the Medical School. In 1987, the union was forced to redirect its organization efforts when it was ruled that full-time professors are managers and therefore not eligible for collective bargaining. The union then put emphasis on part-time professors and librarians which were deemed to be eligible for union representation. A 1991 vote saw faculty and librarians at the university reject the United Faculty as a collective bargaining agent.
The University of Pittsburgh traces its origin back to 1787, when the Pittsburgh Academy was established by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, who got the Pennsylvania legislature to grant land for the school.
The name was changed in 1819 to the Western University of Pennsylvania. The devastating fire that destroyed downtown Pittsburgh (April 10, 1845) also destroyed the university's hall where all the academy and university records, books, files, furniture and scientific equipment were kept. Another fire (April, 1849) destroyed the new building.
Operations were suspended until 1854, when the university reopened after constructing a new building at Ross Street and Diamond (now Forbes Avenue).
In 1882, the university relocated to Allegheny City (now the North Side of Pittsburgh). In 1908 the name was changed to "University of Pittsburgh," and the move to relocate the university to the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh was begun. The centerpiece of the new campus was its neo-Gothic buildings: the Cathedral of Learning (1929); the Stephen Collins Foster Memorial (1937) and Heinz Chapel (1938). The first four Nationality Rooms in the Cathedral were completed in 1938. The University of Pittsburgh is well-known for many of its programs, in particular its Medical Center in the field of transplantation surgery.
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