Education Opportunities
Overview
Living-Learning Community: The Research Experience
In partnership with the Office of Residence Life, the Center co-sponsors one of the University’s Living Learning Communities. As a part of the University’s Competitive Edge Program, LLCs are special floors in the residence halls where small groups of students with similar interests work on projects beyond the classroom. More information on the LLCs can be found here.
The CRSP-sponsored LLC in 2006-2007 is called The Research Experience. A dozen undergraduate students are each paired with a CRSP faculty associate to work on social science research projects, thus gaining experience and knowledge in the design and execution of programs of research, grant-writing and funding sources, and writing and publishing research findings.
The projects include:
- Allegheny County Jail Collaborative Evaluation
- Ethnic Identity & Epistemology
- Legal Socialization of Children and Youth
- Minority Access to Prime Contracts at Pittsburgh Public Schools
- Multidimensional Characteristics of Incarcerated Youth and the Role of Race
- Practicing Safety: Preventing Child Neglect and Abuse
- Seeing is Believing: Perceptions of Support and Career Outcomes Among African American Employees
- Solutions to America's Race Problems
- Teacher-Student Relationships Across the Racial Divide
- Youth Reentry Experiences from Juvenile Justice Placement: A Qualitative Study Exploring Race, Gender, and Service Needs
Mentoring
In the past five years, more than two dozen graduate and undergraduate student assistants have been employed on center-sponsored research projects. These students have come from the School of Social Work, the School of Education, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Public Health, the College of Business Administration, and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
