Registration is open for the Community Engaged Scholarship Forum on March 4

Each year, Pitt elevates, celebrates and reflects on collective approaches to community-engaged scholarship at the University at the annual Community Engaged Scholarship Forum (CESF).

CESF provides an opportunity for faculty, students, staff and community members to present their community-engaged work, discover new avenues of partnership, network with those who do similar work and celebrate Pitt's commitment to community engagement.

This year's theme, Reducing Barriers, Creating Opportunity, continues last year’s conversation around the vital conditions for community resilience. The forum will showcase cross-sector and multi-organization approaches to community-informed scholarship that reduces barriers for our region.

Attendees will learn from public policy, research, and nonprofit leaders working to create systems integration approaches that connect and coordinate different programs and initiatives to become more human-centered, data-driven and cost-effective. They’ll also hear from Andre M. Perry, director of Brookings’ Center for Community Uplift, who will serve as keynote speaker.

This year’s CESF is March 4, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at the William Pitt Union. Registration is now open. A full agenda will be shared in mid-February.

There’s still time to submit a workshop proposal or nominations for awards. The deadline is Jan. 31.

Photography by Aimee Obidzinski