Throughout my time working with the Fayette County Cultural Trust, I have learned numerous valuable skills surrounding asset-based community development and working with community organizations. This internship experience began with the overarching goal of doing preliminary research on entrepreneurship centers around the country and how the FCCT’s version of these centers can come to fruition…
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Mapping the Semester
Over the past semester, I had the opportunity to work as an intern with the Fayette County Cultural Trust (FCCT), under the guidance of Michael Edwards and Dan Cocks, and in collaboration with other faculty members and students from the University of Pittsburgh. This internship was offered to me to continue research I began last…
Update on My Internship with the Fayette County Cultural Trust
Throughout these few months working with the Fayette County Cultural Trust, my fellow interns and I have been working on much of the preliminary research on small business and entrepreneurship centers in other areas around the country that have applicable qualities to the entrepreneurship center being created in Downtown Connellsville. This research has been very…
Interning with the Fayette County Cultural Trust
Hello! My name is Natalie, and I am a senior at Pitt majoring in Urban Studies and Anthropology, minoring in Political Science, and getting a certificate in Public and Professional Writing. In addition to my studies, I am an intern with the Fayette County Cultural Trust for this Spring semester. The Fayette County Cultural Trust…
Final thoughts: The Appalachian Resilience Project
It has been an incredibly long semester, one of the longest of my college career. That being said, working with my teammates, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and the Fredrick Honors College this semester to do our community research has been the most rewarding experience I have had in my time at Pitt. After completing our…
About the Appalachian Teaching Project
Our group’s project timeline involved a site visit to both Connellsville and Uniontown, where we met with local community members and leaders, gained community input, and experienced the distinctive features of both towns. The main assets my group and I identified during our site visit, particularly in Connellsville, was the Great Allegheny Passage, and the…
My Time with the Appalachian Teaching Project
Hello! My name is Natalie Frank, and I am a senior at Pitt majoring in Urban Studies and Anthropology, minoring in Political Science, and getting a certificate in Public and Professional Writing. Through one of my Urban Studies classes this past semester, I had the opportunity to work with a great group of fellow students…
Reflecting on the Appalachian Collegiate Research Initiative Project
After a long semester of hard work, our group of 8 interdisciplinary collegiate students presented our final research at the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Community Research Symposium.
Beginning the Appalachian Teaching Project
Hi, Y’all! My name is Alex Marlow and I’m a senior double majoring in urban studies and psychology with a sustainability certificate. A fun fact about me is that I swam for Pitt’s D1 swim team for the first half of my college career, and was born in Toronto. When I started the Sustainability capstone…
Fayette County Economic Resilience
During our research in Fayette County, specifically in Connellsville and Uniontown, we spoke with local residents, community leaders, and business owners to learn about their perspectives on particular assets in their town. The community is surprisingly open about all topics and were incredibly inviting during our visits. It was extremely apparent that there is a…