The final deliverable that we Urban Studies people were responsible for was the asset map, the previous focus of this project, which we started to complete and widen scope from this year. What that meant is that instead of a larger effort to gather data, a more limited team of Urban Studies students took…

               My experience of the Connellsville presentation was probably the most “real” community development work in my entire illustrious career, and, like most important things in life, it felt like it went by extremely quickly. Before the presentation, we sat and mingled with guests drawn from various backgrounds and recruited by various members of our…

It’s been just shy of two weeks since we did our site visit (is that what we call field trips these days?), and the longer I sit on that experience, the more its significance grows. The disconnect between what I assumed I would see and what I actually ended up taking away from the experience…

Hi! My name is Moses Lemann, and I’m majoring in Urban Studies and Political Science. Something unique about me is that I’m blind in one eye and have been since birth. Obviously, that sounds like a massive disability, and it is I guess, but I don’t see it that way. To me, it’s just a…