After a classmate was sexually assaulted on campus, Pitt students are grappling with solutions. “Something needs to come out of this.”
Emma Folts
Higher education reporter for PublicSource in partnership with Open Campus.
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Fed up with sexual assaults, Pitt students demand safety measures
Reports of an afternoon assault in the Cathedral of Learning spurred fear, but also concrete demands for change.
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They are Pittsburgh college students and survivors of sexual violence. Here, they share their stories.
Six people detailed to PublicSource how they were violated, its effects on their well-being, and what support they sought and received.
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Across Pittsburgh colleges, students step up to prevent sexual violence through education, advocacy, and support
From organizing marches to educating their peers on consent, here’s how college students are protecting and supporting one another.
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We asked Pittsburgh higher ed institutions what they are doing to address sexual violence. This is what they said.
Finding advisers for students who report to Title IX is one of several challenges that university officials in the Pittsburgh region shared with PublicSource.
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A Pitt student’s initiative wants to help survivors of intimate partner violence ‘be the leader in their own healing’
Project Healing Sideways is at the table with Pitt’s Title IX office, bringing the perspectives of survivors to policy discussions.
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CMU’s answer to prof’s tweet, wishing ‘excruciating’ pain for queen, stirs campus backlash
In a flurry of petitions, Carnegie Mellon University students and faculty are blasting the school’s reaction to a professor’s anti-colonialist tweet issued as Queen Elizabeth II was dying.
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Medical emergencies, mac-and-cheese mishaps, and elevator rescues: Pitt dorms draw city services, but should the university help fund them?
Pittsburgh public safety crews serve addresses regardless of tax status, but some high-call-volume locations — including dorms — don’t generate taxes to support them.
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Another Pittsburgh promise?
Payments from “eds and meds” would bring millions to Pittsburgh Public Schools, allowing district to slash deficit and consider “wonderful things.”
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Who decides the future of Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood?
Should the Oakland of tomorrow be a place where children play in sunny yards or where towers cater to students and “eds and meds” workers? Seven perspectives illustrate the stresses facing the booming center of Pittsburgh’s tax-exempt growth.