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This is the first article in the blog series "Advancing Equity through Ability to Benefit and College Promise Programs." The blog series is part of the grant project A2B4Equity: Advancing Adults’ Ability to Benefit Through Equitable College Promise Programs. 

The $540,000 grant will support an expansion of operational capacity that allows for deeper engagement with students as they transition from high school to college.

The Office of Child Development boasts two Fulbright Scholars in their Student Fellows program: Meghan Orman and Jennifer Ponce Cori.

Faculty member Xu Qin has been selected as a 2022 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.

A desire to facilitate more school-based research at Falk led to the establishment of a research coordinator role at the school.

McCambly's dissertation explores how grantmakers influence postsecondary policy systems.

Alumna TaMisha Greathouse has been appointed as the Director of Campus Activities at the University of Southern California (USC). 

The Pitt Momentum Funds support innovative projects that contribute meaningful insight, understanding, or solutions to societal challenges.

An online high school co-founded by Richard M. Goldman (BA A&S ’64; MEd ’66, PhD ’70) has partnered with Amazon to provide the company’s global workforce with a pathway to a high school diploma.

Alumnus Chris Olshefski recently received the 2022 Dissertation of the Year Award from the American Educational Research Association Religion and Education Special Interest Group.

Dawna Jones, a 2009 alumna of the Master of Higher Education program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, was appointed as director of Duke University’s Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture.