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In this newsletter: Our higher education reporter, Emma Folts, checks back on the progress of a Pitt program she wrote about a little more than a year ago as it launched. The university developed the program in response to national calls to reduce or eliminate the role of police in many mental health emergencies.

And, we have a story about what educators and advocates in Southwestern PA want from the Shapiro-nominated acting education secretary — sans secretary after about six weeks of trying to secure an interview.

Our top story

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. While Pitt's counseling director said the program needs more data to have an "accurate representation," some other universities are sharing updates and assessing early.

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NOT TO MISS

What’s next for PA schools? The state Ed Department isn’t talking, but Pittsburgh educators and advocates are

Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures welcomes Booker Prize-finalist Ruth Ozeki, author of “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” to the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland on March 13. This season’s 2022/23 Ten Evenings speakers include Joy Harjo, Hanif Abdurraqib and Hanya Yanagihara.

See the full roster at pittsburghlectures.org/ten-evenings. Purchase your in-person or virtual tickets and subscriptions at pittsburghlectures.org.

WANT MORE? WE'RE ON IT..

Graduate student workers at Pittsburgh’s largest universities join nationwide push for better and more equitable pay. “I can’t make my money get any bigger,” CMU doctoral student Alex Tabor said. “How do I shrink the expenses that I do have to handle? Well, I can eat less. I can use less electricity.”
CDC keeps Allegheny County in low level of community COVID-19. Check out the latest March 1 update to our stats dashboard.

FROM OUR ARCHIVES

The beauty and decay around my North Braddock home drove my art forward with a question: Where do we think this is going?

Symposium featuring gender equity leaders open to the public March 24

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East Palestine real estate market rattled by derailment, as residents weigh how to respond

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