The pandemic accelerated enrollment declines at the Community College of Allegheny County, but the trend stretches back years.
Emma Folts
Higher education reporter for PublicSource in partnership with Open Campus.
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Student loan forgiveness faces an uncertain future. What does that mean for Pittsburghers?
Thousands of eligible people in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County have applied for debt relief. Now, they’re in a holding pattern.
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Pitt’s chancellor-elect talks police relations, unionization and controversial speakers on campus after vote
Joan Gabel, president and chief executive of the University of Minnesota system and Twin Cities campus, is the first woman in Pitt’s 236-year history to hold the position.
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‘What about Black history bothers you?’ Pittsburgh students value AP African American Studies course criticized in other states
PPS Allderdice is one of about 60 schools nationwide that’s piloting the course, recently at the center of a curriculum debate.
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‘Anti-trans’ speakers are coming to Pitt. Student safety and speech rights collide.
In an environment of rising rhetoric against transgender people, impending presentations by the College Republicans and Turning Point USA have energized debate on hateful speech on campus.
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Pitt has launched a program to support students in crisis. It’s unclear how well it’s working.
The university has not yet begun a formal review of the HEART program, which allows mental health professionals to join campus police in responding to some students in crisis.
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At Pitt, CMU, ‘We’re workers when they want us to be, but then we’re graduate students when they don’t want to pay us’
Graduate student workers at Pittsburgh’s largest universities join nationwide push for better and more equitable pay.
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Pittsburgh universities are ramping up efforts to tackle food insecurity
Food insecurity may impact not only students’ health but also their ability to perform well academically and stay in school.
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‘We were the guinea pig generation’: How the pandemic shaped current college freshmen
We asked first-year students from around the country one question: What is something they missed out on in high school because of the pandemic, and how did that affect their first semester in college?
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ChatGPT could turn writing into ‘technical Mad Libs.’ But could it also spark needed change in higher ed?
Several Pittsburgh-area professors are trying to embrace AI in the classroom rather than resist the new wave of technology.