Community Outreach & Engagement Update
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Prevention at Pitt team received the Community Champion Award!
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The Prevention at Pitt team was recognized as a community champion against sexual violence from the regional organization Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR).
Each year, PAAR hosts the Teal Ball to honor and celebrate the strength of survivors of sexual violence while recognizing those who help eradicate sexual violence in the Pittsburgh community. This year’s ceremony, the 52nd, was held at the Wyndham Grand Hotel in Downtown Pittsburgh.
The University team was represented at the Teal Ball by Benson, Dev Hayostek (SOC WK ’23G), Angie Jack, Willa Campbell (SPH ’23G) and Chad Jurica, along with graduate students Leigh Marques and Kelisa Hysenbegasi and undergraduate students from Pitt’s Sexual Assault Facilitation and Education team.
Learn more about the Prevention at Pitt Team and their growth over the past 4 years.
For more information about Prevention at Pitt, visit pitt.ly/prevention.
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Registration for the 2024-25 Community Engaged Scholarship Project Development Cohort is Open!
The Community-Engaged Scholarship Project Development Cohort provides project teams the dedicated planning time and facilitation to develop high impact community-engaged scholarship projects. Over four facilitated sessions, teams of up to four people work together to refine and advance their project plans to ensure logistic feasibility, community relevance, scholarly rigor, and social impact.
Applications for the 2024-25 Project Development Cohort are open now. Learn more about the cohort and submit your application today. The application deadline is Friday, August 30, 2024. Learn more about the process and submit an application.
Faculty and Staff Development Program: Courses in Community Engagement
Are you a Pitt faculty or staff member interested in learning more about community engagement? Consider completing the Community Engagement Professional Foundations Certificate as part of the University's Faculty & Staff Development Program (FSDP)! Registration for the FSDP spring 2024 term is open.
Learn more about the community engagement certificate program on Pitt's Office of Human Resources website (select the Learning Opportunities dropdown menu in the "Professional Development" section).
Check out the description for the next course taught by the ECA team: Equity and Inclusion for Engaged Scholarship on June 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. Dr. Shallegra Moye from the Office of Child Development, Pitt School of Education, will join ECA as a co-teacher.
Congratulations to Pitt junior Connor Diaz who was named a 2024 Newman Civic Fellow!
Diaz is one of 142 student problem-solvers selected for the 2024-25 Newman Civic Fellowship, a yearlong program designed to help fellows enact positive change on their college campuses and in their communities. Learn more in Pittwire.
Oakland will be home to a new affordable housing community for LGBTQ+ older adults
Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood will be the new home for a 48-unit affordable housing complex near the corner of Forbes and Craft avenues tailored for LGBTQ+ seniors. Learn more about the project in Pittwire.
Congratulations to Melissa Bilec of the Mascaro Center for Sustaninable Innovation on their recent National Science Foundation award!
A joint research team from the University of Georgia's College of Engineering and the University of Pittsburgh’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation have been awarded a $5,000,000 cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue their Phase 1 project, “A Tale of Two Cities: Optimizing Circularity from Molecules to the Built Environment,” as a part of the NSF's Convergence Accelerator. Learn more about the NSF project.
A day off for Juneteenth, a day on for service.
Pitt's Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (OEDI) and PittServes are teaming up to provide three opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to volunteer on Friday, June 21, and then attend a community discussion. Transportation will be provided from campus to each volunteer site. For more information and to sign up, visit OEDI's website.
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Metropolitan Universities, "Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations
Metropolitan Universities special journal issue, "Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations," published in collaboration with the Place-Based Justice Network, is out now. This issue looks at the challenges and obstacles to equitable and anti-racist place-based community engagement in higher education. The issue is available online.
Community Engagement Professional Credential Information Session
Join Campus Compact on the first Thursday of every month from 2 to 3 p.m. ET for an informal informational session about the Community Engagement Professional Credentialing Program. In the first half of the session you'll learn more about the competency areas, the application process, associated learning opportunities, and the path to full certification. The second half will be reserved for answering participant questions and providing applicant assistance. Learn more and register online.
LAST CHANCE - Barbara A. Holland Scholar - Administrator Award
Holland Scholars are mid-career individuals distinguished by an integrated record of administrative leadership and high-impact scholarship that has shaped ideas and actions within and beyond their institution. They hold or have held administrative roles with significant reach and responsibility within an institution of higher education, and are viewed by their peers as having both a scholarly approach to their administrative role and the potential for future advancement in leadership in or related to higher education. Call for nominations closes on June 17, 2024. Nominate someone today!
MUJ Dialogue Series: Public Scholarship for Innovative Practice
Metropolitan Universities, the journal of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, provides an opportunity for scholarly peer-reviewed online publication that centers the relationship between communities and campuses. In this webinar series, authors and editors discuss key ideas from the most recent issue and invite readers to join in the work of connecting our scholarship to our practice.
In collaboration with the Place-Based Justice Network, a recent issue of Metropolitan Universities journal focuses on the role of higher education institutions in fostering epistemic justice. What critical conversations need to be fostered and how do you approach community engagement through the lens of epistemic justice? In this webinar, participants will engage with the guest editors and authors to discuss this topic in more depth.
This webinar takes place on June 18, 2024 at 3 p.m. ET and is open to all. Register online.
2024 APLU Commission on Economic and Community Engagement Summer Meeting
The APLU's Commission on Economic & Community Engagement (CECE) hosts a summer conference to bring together its members focused on economic and community engagement.
The 2024 CECE Summer Meeting, Reimagining Engagement: A National Conversation will be held in Washington, DC on Wednesday, June 26 through Friday June 28.
Questions regarding the program? Contact APLU’s Caydan Henslee by emailing chenslee@aplu.org. Register today!
Seeing is believing: How the Engagement and Outreach Map makes Pitt’s community engagement come to life
Join Gregory Kienzl, PhD, Director of Data & Impact and Shatara Murphy, MBA, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Anchor Initatives both of the University of Pittsburgh's Office of Engagement and Community Affairs for a webinar to discuss how the Engagement and Outreach Map was created, improved, consistently updated, and used as a resource by faculty, institutional leadership, and community members. This webinar takes place on Thursday, August 15, 2024 from 3 to 3:45 p.m. Learn more and register today!
Place-Based Justice Network Summer Institute
This summer, from July 22-24, the Place-Based Justice Network will host its annual Summer Institute at Gonzaga University, centering two primary themes; Accompaniment (how we show up, respond to, and engage with existing systems) and Epistemic justice (how we know what we know, how knowledge is constructed, and what is considered “legitimate” knowledge). Register today!
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Greater Hazelwood
SolarPUNK
You are invited to participate in the SolarPUNK Future Festival on Saturday, June 29, from 1 to 5 p.m. at Velum Fermentation (2120 Jane St, Pittsburgh, PA 15203) in the South Side. This unique event is a blend of an art show, jobs fair, and future expo, dedicated to envisioning a sustainable and equitable future. Visit their website to learn more and register today.
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Hill District
City in the Streets and Uptown Partners Community Day!
The City in the Street and Uptown Partners Community Day will take place on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Learn more about this fun-filled day.
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Homewood
Homewood Appreciation Day!
The Community Engagement Center in Homewood will be hosting "Homewood Appreciation Day" on Monday, June 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Staff will be grilling beef hot dogs, turkey, veggie and beef burgers. Chips and water will also beprovided. This will take place outside of the CEC in Homewood.
CAMP BIO-E 2.0 Registration is Open!
CampBioE 2.0 is a dynamic day camp that engages young scholars in the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through intentional mentorship and exposure to cutting edge, hands-on activities related to bioengineering. Learn more and register online.
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