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Welcome to the Pitt
Learning Integrated with Needed Construction and Service
(L.I.N.C.S.) website
This is the hub of information about our service-learning course sequence,
related activities and our participants and partners. Enjoy browsing the
sites to find out more about the diverse Pitt LINCS projects from 1998 to the
present, ways that you can support and interact with us, and information
about the different Andean sites where we have worked.
This program is a core offering of the Social and Comparative Analysis of
Education Program of the Administrative and Policy Studies Department in the
School of Education.
Pitt Students receive 9 graduate credits for the work we do
together, and several have gone on to do extended supervised research,
thesis, and dissertations on related topics. This intense experience offers
participants opportunities to engage with their head, heart, and hands.
LINCS brings together undergrads, grad, faculty, staff, and friends to
participate in a series of service-learning activities that unite academic
and field-based learning. Students begin in a spring semester seminar,
offered every second year, that introduces critical issues in the ethics
and leadership of experiential education programs. We explore both
long-standing and cutting edge issues in education and international
development.
We build on this foundation through a multi-week service-learning project
with a partner community. In the past, we have been invited work hand in
hand with civic groups to construct schools in several rural Andean
neighborhoods. Through their own democratic planning processes and in
conjunction with a regional non-governmental organization, they approach us
to propose a joint endeavor. We then labor together to give their dreams a
home. The result is much more than just a sturdy, culturally appropriate
school structure - we join forces to create a community of practice
centered around transformative, reciprocal engagement.
We welcome you to check out what we have accomplished as a community so
far, to propose new adventures, and to support us financially and
academically. And, certainly, consider becoming a member of a future Pitt
LINCS project!
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