The Pittsburgh Promise scholarship program launched in 2008 to help make college more financially accessible. It is available to eligible Pittsburgh Public Schools students and can be used to attend college in Pennsylvania.
Since its founding, millions of dollars in scholarships have been distributed to thousands students.
Without the scholarship, the Promise wants to advocate for a public policy solution to funding post-secondary education in Pennsylvania. College affordability has been a long-standing issue in the state, though, with no clear resolution in sight. ⬇️
Since its founding in 2008, The Pittsburgh Promise has helped nearly 12,000 students to attend college by funneling $170 million into fees, tuition and living expenses. But in a few years that funding will dry up.
Andy Kelemen wrote a first-person essay about how the growing presence of short-term rental properties in Lawrenceville makes him nostalgic for “a strong community of neighbors.”
A group of Carnegie Mellon University graduate student workers served the provost with a petition with over 1,000 signatures, urging the university to provide all its workers with a $1,500 payment that eligible faculty and staff received in June to offset inflation.
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