Plan for Pitt 2025

U.S. Law and Legal English Program (LLEP)

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A Place for Pitt–Johnstown in the Cure Violence: Johnstown Campaign

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Pitt Prison Education Project (PPEP)

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The Pittsburgh Black Media’s Frank Bolden Urban Multimedia Workshop

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Abstract

This project will build on the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation’s Frank Bolden Workshop, which for 40 years has trained students in writing, self-development, and self-confidence.

A Makerspace on the Move: Mobilizing the OPEN LAB

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Humanities at Work in the Community, Health and Tech Industry

Principal Investigator

Abdesalam Soudi
Linguistics

Select Collaborators

Judy Chang
Magee Women’s Hospital

Shelome Gooden
Linguistics

Audrey Murrell
David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership

Jeannette South-Paul
Family Medicine

Abstract

This project draws on the Linguistics department’s existing internship program and aims to create an engagement platform for connecting linguistics to the community and industry, and ultimately, a center to house this program.

The Business of Humanity®—Enhancing Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability in Disadvantaged Communities through Radical Business Models

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Building Bridges: Promoting Equity and Justice through Empowering Minoritized Students in Education

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Abstract

Our purpose it to strengthen education research and practice to be culturally responsive to a changing demographic of students in the U.S. by developing a sustainable, impactful, transdisciplinary continuum of wrap-around support services for minoritized graduate students (MGS).

We will: