Chris Bonneau, political science faculty member and former Senate president, who sits on the University committee overseeing the parallel implementation of the new and old budget models this year, said it was still uncertain whether Pitt would need a new mechanism of oversight for the budget model that would include more input from faculty groups. “Is it going to change the way things operate at all, or is it just … going to make accounting more transparent?” he asked. “I think its going to change the way deans act, including hiring,” he added, noting that the new model was designed in part “to get deans to take some risks and create new streams of revenue” for their schools.
