The Carolina Parents Council has recognized the People, Ideas, and Things (PIT) Journal for its contributions to student learning, awarding the journal a grant to fund the journal’s continuing expansion during 2011-2012.
UNC sophomore Sydney Stegall, along with Ph.D. student Ashley Hall, Prof. Dan Anderson, sophomore Ben Whitley, and junior Joe Albernaz, developed the successful grant application, which earned high praise from the Council:
The Committee was impressed with the efforts of those involved with the PIT Journal and with the opportunities for scholarship and publication for our students. This project is an excellent example of a student responding to the mission of the Chancellor’s Innovation Campaign. [ . . . ] The Parents Council is excited about your proposal and the value it places on student learning and the opportunity to engage in serious scholarship and is looking forward to receiving feedback from this program.
The People, Ideas, and Things (PIT) Journal is a scholarly, peer-reviewed, online journal run by and for University of North Carolina students.The broad lenses of people, ideas, and things are intended to offer undergraduates three flexible entry points for sharing scholarship about virtually any topic that is relevant to the UNC community. The PIT Journal invites submissions that take full opportunity of the affordances offered by publishing electronically on the Web including web texts, video essays, audio projects, visual projects, and mixed media projects. Navigate to http://pitjournal.unc.edu to learn more and browse the first issue of PIT.
