Outreach Programs - Diversity Resource Guide - Carnegie Mellon University

Outreach Programs

Carnegie Mellon faculty and staff raise about $2 million in grants each year to support K–12 outreach projects in our community, and is committed to educational and social outreach projects through the Leonard Gelfand Center for Service Learning and Outreach. The university and its employees participate in a variety of community support programs and/or organizations:

  • Women in Science and Engineering: This program was designed to attract women to the fields of science and engineering. It sponsors activities and career workshops for high school sophomore and junior women, parents and guidance counselors.
  • The Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource Center (CMARC): This program is designed to enhance students' undergraduate experience at Carnegie Mellon, with a particular focus on recruiting African American, Hispanic, and Native American students. CMARC helps the Admissions Office identify and recruit minority students in an attempt to create a more ethnically diverse university. Students served by the program are from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Mellon College of Science, College of Fine Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tepper School of Business and the School of Computer Science. The program assists students in all phases of academic and personal growth by providing the following: summer bridge program, academic services, personal development and career development.
  • Andrew's Leap: The School of Computer Science conducts a summer program for 30 mathematically and computer-literate high school students from Pittsburgh's schools. The ten-week program builds on their earlier exposure to computing.
  • Westinghouse High School Science and Mathematics Project: This one-week residential program during the summer is for tenth graders from George Westinghouse High School, a city school with a largely African American student population. While the program is not exclusively for minority youth, all but one participant over the past ten years have been African American.
  • Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students (C-MITES): Founded in 1992, C-MITES provides many services for academically talented students in Pennsylvania. Currently, C-MITES offers testing for the Elementary Student Talent Search. Through individual test report interpretation, newsletters, educational materials, teacher training sessions, ongoing research, weekend workshops, and parent information meetings, C-MITES has improved the educational experiences of over 22,000 students.
  • Mentors Program at the Community Literacy Center: At least 20,000 elementary and secondary school students use materials developed at Carnegie Mellon, or study with teachers who attended in-service programs at the university. At least 600 teachers participate in our in-service programs each year.
  • Business Services and the Corrections Community Center in the South Side have teamed up to help individuals in transitional living find employment with dining facilities at the university.