PRINTER'S NO. 3516
No. 2669 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY EVANS, MAY 6, 1992
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, MAY 6, 1992
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of July 28, 1966 (3rd Sp.Sess., P.L.87, No.3),
2 entitled "An act providing for the establishment and
3 operation of the University of Pittsburgh as an
4 instrumentality of the Commonwealth to serve as a State-
5 related university in the higher education system of the
6 Commonwealth; providing for change of name; providing for the
7 composition of the board of trustees; terms of trustees, and
8 the power and duties of such trustees; authorizing
9 appropriations in amounts to be fixed annually by the General
10 Assembly; providing for the auditing of accounts of
11 expenditures from said appropriations; providing for public
12 support and capital improvements; authorizing the issuance of
13 bonds exempt from taxation within the Commonwealth; requiring
14 the chancellor to make an annual report of the operations of
15 the University of Pittsburgh," making appropriations for
16 carrying the same into effect; providing for a basis for
17 payments of such appropriations; and providing a method of
18 accounting for the funds appropriated.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. (a) The following sums, or as much thereof as
22 may be necessary, are hereby appropriated to the Trustees of the
23 University of Pittsburgh for the fiscal year July 1, 1992, to
24 June 30, 1993, for the purposes and in the amounts as shown:
25 (1) For educational and general expenses...... $118,349,000
1 (2) For instruction - Doctor of Medicine only. 6,239,000
2 (3) For operation of dental clinics in the
3 school of dentistry............................... 1,030,000
4 (4) To enhance the recruitment and retention
5 of disadvantaged students. This appropriation is
6 contingent on the university submitting to the
7 General Assembly by October 1, 1992, a report
8 evaluating the university's effort to recruit and
9 retain minority students and teachers............. 300,000
10 (5) For general maintenance and operation of
11 the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic...... 7,693,000
12 (6) For the teen suicide center at the Western
13 Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.................. 497,000
14 (b) The appropriations provided in subsection (a) shall be
15 contingent upon the university complying with all provisions of
16 the act of June 21, 1957 (P.L.390, No.212), referred to as the
17 Right-to-Know Law, as they are applied to agencies covered by
18 that law.
19 (c) No funds from an appropriation made by this act shall be
20 made available for expenditure after October 1, 1992, unless a
21 good faith effort, as prescribed by the Department of Public
22 Welfare, has been made to hire welfare clients for new jobs
23 created as a result of the State appropriations. No existing
24 employees or employees on unemployment compensation are to be
25 displaced by this effort. A report detailing these efforts is to
26 be submitted to the Department of Public Welfare by September
27 15, 1992. The Department of Public Welfare shall give written
28 notification of compliance to the State Treasurer.
29 Section 2. Payments to the University of Pittsburgh on
30 account of the appropriations for all items as provided in
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1 section 1 shall be made on the basis of costs during the fiscal
2 year.
3 Section 3. If necessary, the University of Pittsburgh may
4 transfer funds between the appropriations listed in section 1(1)
5 and (2): Provided, That the aggregate amount transferred into or
6 out of each appropriation during the fiscal year shall not
7 exceed 5% of the amount specifically appropriated for that
8 purpose.
9 Section 4. (a) Payments to the University of Pittsburgh of
10 the appropriations provided in section 1 shall be made monthly
11 during the fiscal year.
12 (b) Such monthly payments shall be made in accordance with
13 the provisions of section 2 on the basis of estimated costs. The
14 estimate of costs shall be submitted by the University of
15 Pittsburgh to the Secretary of Education, the General Assembly
16 and the State Treasurer not later than 30 days prior to the date
17 on which such payment is to be made.
18 Section 5. (a) The University of Pittsburgh shall apply the
19 moneys appropriated by this act only for such purposes as are
20 permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain proper
21 records showing the application of such moneys. Not later than
22 120 days after the close of the fiscal year to which this act
23 relates, the University of Pittsburgh shall file, with the
24 Secretary of Education, the General Assembly, the Auditor
25 General of the Commonwealth and the chief administrator of each
26 branch campus, a statement setting forth the amounts and
27 purposes of all expenditures made from moneys appropriated by
28 this act and other university accounts during said fiscal year,
29 as provided in section 2, used as a basis for receipt of any
30 appropriation during said fiscal year.
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1 (b) Such statement of expenditures and costs shall be
2 reviewed by the Auditor General of the Commonwealth, and he
3 shall have the right, in respect to the moneys appropriated by
4 this act, to audit and disallow expenditures made for purposes
5 not permitted by this act and to cause such sums to be recovered
6 and paid by the University of Pittsburgh to the State Treasurer.
7 In respect to expenditures made by the university from moneys
8 other than those appropriated by this act, the Auditor General
9 shall have the right to review only, and he shall file annually
10 with the General Assembly such information concerning such
11 expenditures as the General Assembly or any of its committees
12 may require.
13 Section 6. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
14 the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
15 House of Representatives and shall include data for all
16 programs, except for the Doctor of Medicine program. The report,
17 to be submitted prior to September 1, 1993, shall cover the 12-
18 month period beginning with the summer term 1992 and shall
19 include:
20 (1) The following counts and distributions for each term
21 during the period:
22 (i) The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
23 full time, of faculty members employed part time, of full-time
24 students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
25 enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
26 enrolled in graduate courses and of part-time students enrolled
27 in undergraduate courses.
28 (ii) The total numbers of undergraduate student credit
29 hours, divided into lower division and upper division course
30 levels, and of graduate student credit hours, divided into three
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1 course levels--master's, first professional and doctoral.
2 (iii) The number of different courses scheduled by level of
3 instruction and the number of sections of individual instruction
4 scheduled by level of instruction, each further subdivided by
5 two-digit Classification of Instructional Program (CIP)
6 categories of instructional programs of higher education as
7 defined by the National Center for Education Statistics, United
8 States Department of Education.
9 (iv) The number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
10 (2) For the summer term and the following academic year in
11 total and for each two-digit CIP program category, a
12 classification of faculty members or other professional
13 employees by title, including: professor, associate professor,
14 assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, research associate,
15 librarian and academic administrator; faculty members or other
16 professional employees under each title to be subdivided by type
17 of assignment: teaching and nonteaching; and each such set of
18 faculty members or other professional employees to be further
19 subdivided by type of employment: full-time or part-time; and
20 the following aggregates for each such subdivided
21 classification:
22 (i) The number of faculty and other professional employees
23 and their full-time equivalence in instructional and
24 noninstructional functions.
25 (ii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
26 courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
27 courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
28 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
29 (iii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate
30 individual instruction courses and the sum of credits assigned
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1 to graduate individual instruction courses taught, divided into
2 lower division, upper division, master's, first professional and
3 doctoral course levels.
4 (iv) The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit hours
5 and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
6 generated, divided into lower division, upper division,
7 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
8 (v) The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
9 credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
10 student credit hours generated, divided into lower division,
11 upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
12 levels.
13 (vi) The total salary paid for instructional functions and
14 for noninstructional functions and the amount of this salary
15 paid for each of these functions from university funds, Federal
16 funds and other funds.
17 (3) For each term of the period covered for each faculty
18 member employed full time identified by two-digit CIP program
19 category and title, the report shall contain an analysis of the
20 average hours per week spent in university-related activities,
21 stating specifically hours spent in undergraduate classroom
22 contact and graduate classroom contact, hours spent in
23 preparation, hours spent in research and hours spent in public
24 service.
25 Section 7. In addition to the requirements in section 6
26 relative to this appropriation, the report covering the 12-month
27 period beginning with the summer term 1992 shall include for all
28 programs of the university:
29 (1) Minimum number of credits required for a baccalaureate
30 degree and for a master's degree.
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1 (2) Number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, first
2 professional degrees and doctoral degrees awarded in 1990, 1991,
3 1992 and estimated 1993.
4 Section 8. The University of Pittsburgh shall provide full,
5 complete and accurate information as may be required by the
6 Department of Education or the Majority Chairman or the Minority
7 Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate or the
8 Majority Chairman or the Minority Chairman of the Appropriations
9 Committee of the House of Representatives.
10 Section 9. The University of Pittsburgh shall report its
11 revenues and expenditures and present its financial statements
12 required under the provisions of this act in accordance with
13 generally accepted accounting principles and procedures for
14 educational institutions as set forth in the "Higher Education
15 Finance Manual, United States Department of Health, Education
16 and Welfare (1975)" and the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget
17 Instructions for the State System of Higher Education, State-
18 Related Universities and Non-State-Related Colleges and
19 Universities."
20 Section 10. This act shall take effect July 1, 1992, or
21 immediately, whichever is later.
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