PanAf GPSU serves all graduate and professional students at Pitt with research and/or cultural interests in Black America, the African Continent, the Caribbean, West Indies, Latin America, and the entire Diaspora.
The PanAf GPSU philosophy is to design blueprints and build collaborative mechanisms for the Black community on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). As a union of Pan-African organizations and administrative entities, we seek to network with all charitable, diversity, minority professional, National Pan-Hellenic Council’s sororities and fraternities, and cultural organizations. Our role is then to coordinate efforts that improve the quality of cross-cultural relationships and education for students of color in higher education. In effect, strengthening the Pan-African network allows us to collectively be of greater service to the cultural and research interests at Pitt.
By promoting community awareness, we aspire to protect and project a sense of community that celebrates the breadth of Pan-African diversity, while also guiding our network of groups within the union to support the same ideals. In essence, PanAf GPSU works to build bridges with Black scholars across schools and departments, while infusing campus-wide activities that support interdisciplinary connections and outward exposure into the city of Pittsburgh. At the same time, we exist to ensure that all Black graduate and professional students at Pitt have an organization directly receptive to their needs in the absence of a school and/or departmental level organization (Read the PanAf Constittuion).
