Pittsburgh Promise at Carlow

With a wide support network, Pittsburgh Promise students have the opportunity to thrive personally and academically at Carlow University. Once enrolled at Carlow, you’ll join our Keeping the Promise group, a supportive, diverse community of classmates, mentors and friends. Your support network will also include a personal success coach who will help you transition to college life and access specialized tutoring, study groups, and stipends for internships.

Program benefits

• Participate in personalized coaching sessions
• Learn success skills in online & on-campus weekly workshops
• Gain professional experience through a sponsored internship ($17/hour)
• Earn incentives (up to $200/year) for participating in coaching sessions and workshops

Personalized coaching sessions

You will meet one-on-one with your success coach to explore your academic strengths and challenges, and create goals to achieve academic success. You may schedule sessions as often as you’d like.

During this time, develop valuable skills including:

• Goal setting
• Study and test-taking strategies that work for you
• Time management and organization
• Self-advocacy

Carlow offers additional University resources to further support you on your academic journey that you may be referred to by your success coach.

Weekly workshops

Our learning workshops are designed to help you improve your academic and personal skills. Offered weekly, online and in person, they cover a range of topics including:

• Learning skills (reading, note-taking, test prep & time management techniques)
• Financial Literacy (understanding credit scores, debt to income ratio, budgeting & saving)
• Career Preparation (career planning, resume building, interview prep)
• FAFSA Assistance (completing accurately & meeting deadlines)
• Resiliency & mindfulness (managing stress, setting & keeping goals)

Sponsored internship opportunities