The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
Pitt's Faculty Assembly met Wednesday afternoon.

Pitt to allow in-person classes if ‘definable benefit,’ remainder to stay online during Elevated posture

By Rebecca Johnson, Jon Moss, and Alice Tang • September 9, 2020
Provost Ann Cudd said in a Wednesday afternoon email to faculty members that they can apply to teach their classes in person if there is a “definable benefit” to in-person instruction, and if an instructor’s dean or regional campus president approves teaching plans.
Be Fit Pitt instructors lead an Awakening Morning Yoga class in a Zoom webinar last Friday. Zoom Screenshot

Be Fit Pitt offers live workout classes on Zoom

By Amanda Zelnis, Staff Writer • September 8, 2020
When Pitt students, faculty and staff were still settling into online classes and work due to the COVID-19 pandemic back in April, Be Fit Pitt began streaming three to four free workouts per day to help keep the Pitt community moving and healthy.
Pitt's outdoor COVID-19 testing site is located outside Posvar Hall.

Nose goes: A glimpse inside Pitt’s surveillance testing program

By Elise Roessner, Staff Writer • September 7, 2020
Vorndran is one of the roughly 2,200 students Pitt has tested thus far as part of its surveillance testing program. This program includes randomly selecting students living on and off campus for self-conducted COVID-19 testing.
Pitt's outdoor COVID-19 testing site is located outside Posvar Hall.

Pitt adds 33 COVID-19 cases since Monday, strengthens mask requirements

By Ashton Crawley and Jon Moss • September 4, 2020
Pitt added 33 new COVID-19 cases, composed of 32 students and one employee, in the four days since Monday alongside a stricter mask policy.
Pitt’s Title IX office has implemented a number of new controversial changes announced by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, meeting the federal government’s Aug. 14 deadline and drawing concerns from some students and Title IX officials in the process.

‘Terrifying’: Title IX office, students react to new federal regulations

By Natalie Frank, Staff Writer • September 4, 2020
Pitt’s Title IX office has implemented controversial new federal Title IX regulations — meeting the federal government’s Aug. 14 deadline — despite strong opposition from some University officials. Carrie Benson said she has many concerns about the new rules, but her office will comply with them.
Pitt’s centers for Governance and Markets and Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, as well as the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh and Congregation Beth Shalom, all collaborated to host a virtual event Tuesday to raise awareness about the geneocide of Uyghur Muslims in China.

‘They kill us here’: Survivor of Uyghur concentration camps recounts torture

By Anushay Chaudhry, Staff Writer • September 1, 2020
Tursun shared her story during a virtual event hosted by Pitt’s centers for Governance and Markets and Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, as well as the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh and Congregation Beth Shalom. The organizations held the event to raise awareness about the ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims in China.
Pitt adds 11 cases after first week of online classes

Pitt adds 11 cases after first week of online classes

By Rebecca Johnson, News Editor • August 24, 2020
Pitt added 11 new COVID-19 cases, composed of eight students and three employees, as of Monday’s weekly case report.
Jeff Ahearn | Senior Staff Photographer

All social, no distancing: Parties in Oakland continue amid ongoing pandemic

By Nathan Fitchett and Martha Layne • August 21, 2020
Before almost entirely online classes started Wednesday, large social gatherings among students gained the attention of concerned students, parents, community members and Pitt administrators.
Pitt’s Benedum Hall houses the Swanson School of Engineering.

Swanson engineers a path for fall semester

By Benjamin Nigrosh, Senior Staff Writer • August 20, 2020
Although Pitt is implementing the new Flex@Pitt teaching model, which allows students to experience classes “in person, remotely, synchronously or asynchronously,” it is unclear when in-person classes will begin.
Keeping the humanities ‘human’: A look ahead at Dietrich’s fall semester

Keeping the humanities ‘human’: A look ahead at Dietrich’s fall semester

By Benjamin Nigrosh, Senior Staff Writer • August 20, 2020
Despite the unprecedented circumstances for academia, Gayle Rogers said Pitt’s faculty members have adapted their curriculums to non-traditional learning spaces before and are ready to do it again.
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