student activities fair Archives

Student organizations use new tactics to attract new members after not getting tables at fall activities fair

By Ryleigh Lord, Staff Writer • January 10, 2023

After missing out on tables at the fall activities fair, student leaders have found innovative ways to attract new members to their organizations without the help of the popular August event.

‘All you have to do is reach out’: Getting involved in Pitt’s student organizations

By Rashi Ranjan, Senior Staff Writer • June 24, 2021

With nearly 700 student organizations, Pitt features clubs that serve a variety of interests, from writing letters as random acts of kindness to visiting immigrant-owned restaurants around Pittsburgh.

Student orgs adapt recruiting to virtual Activities Fair

By Rashi Ranjan, For The Pitt News • August 23, 2020

Students flocked to virtual Zoom calls to find social, service, sport and academic organizations to join. Held from 1-3 p.m. online through Campus Labs, the virtual Activities Fair featured 424 clubs, each with their own virtual room for students to drop in to learn more about the organization, ask questions and express their interest.

In photos: Pitt students welcomed to campus

By Stephen Caruso and Abigail Self / The Pitt News Photo Staff • August 29, 2016

After a lazy summer, Oakland is starting to buzz again with the sounds, sights and smells of college life. While it may still be summer, the first hint of an autumn breeze fills the air with the joyful...

6 Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make at Pitt

By Jai-W Hayes-Jackson / For The Pitt News • May 28, 2015

Your first year at Pitt will bring you late-night pizzas, enough pictures of the Cathedral to fill a photobook and a catalog of opportunities to grow as a person as you navigate the many necessary and...