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University of Pittsburgh trustees have called a special meeting for Monday and are expected to vote on a resolution to name a successor to Chancellor Patrick Gallagher.
The 11 a.m. main campus meeting inside Alumni Hall’s Connolly ballroom is to be livestreamed and will include “Remarks of the Chancellor Elect,” according to an agenda added over the weekend to Pitt’s website.
What the new chancellor’s pay will be, if elected, is not yet known. The trustees compensation committee, which sets Pitt officer salaries, is to hold a special meeting at 3 p.m. Monday.
That panel is expected to vote on a “Resolution Approving Compensation Package for Nineteenth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh.”
Gallagher, the school’s 18th chancellor, has a salary of $698,202. He announced plans last year to step down this summer and teach on campus, having served nine years.
Pitt is Western Pennsylvania’s largest university. It has 34,000 students on its main Oakland campus and branches at Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville, as well as 14,000 employees.
It has a $5.5 billion endowment, 26th largest of any campus nationally as of fiscal 2022, and does more than $1 billion in sponsored research.
Since September, a 26-member search committee has worked to identify Gallagher’s successor, aided by the firm Storbeck Search, headquartered in Philadelphia.
Eva Tansky Blum, past Pitt trustees chair, headed the search panel representing board members, students, faculty, staff, alumni and others.
Blum also headed the search that brought Gallagher to Pitt in 2014.
Early in the process, Blum said the university sought someone who could further Pitt’s global reach, support its entrepreneurial efforts and positively impact the broader community. A subsequent job posting in the Chronicle of Higher Education expanded on those and other sought-after attributes.
The school’s 19th chancellor will lead a public institution that, under Gallagher, saw enrollment, research and fundraising gains despite a tenure complicated by social and political unrest nationally, as well as a shrinking student market, in particular in Western Pennsylvania.
On top of that, in March 2020, the covid-19 pandemic shuttered Pitt and other campuses. It forced instruction online, kept international students home and cost the university tens of millions of dollars in covid-19 remediation and testing, housing refunds and lost revenue from canceled events.
By fall 2022, enrollment rebounded, and Pitt crossed the $1 billion funded-research threshold.
Several admission milestones were reached last year.
Pitt received a record 73,000 undergraduate applications, including 27,500 from Pennsylvanians, an all-time high. The share of students either advancing their education or entering the workforce within six months of graduation also reached an all-time high of 97% on the Oakland campus.
Bill Schackner is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Bill by email at bschackner@triblive.com or via Twitter .
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