• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
University of Pittsburgh logo
PITT HOME | FIND PEOPLE
University of Pittsburgh Neighborhood Commitments wordmark

Pitt Neighborhood Commitments

Partnerships that build stronger communities and a stronger University

  • Home
  • Homewood
    • Calendar
    • Programs
    • PittEnrich
    • Spaces & Places
    • About
    • News
  • Hill District
    • Calendar
    • Programs
    • About
    • News
  • Our Impact
  • Contact
  • About
    • Pitt Staff
    • Internal Advisory Council
    • FAQ
    • Resources
  • News
  • COVID-19 Community Resources

Lina Dostilio

photo of Lina DostilioDr. Lina Dostilio is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement at the University of Pittsburgh. She is responsible for supporting community-facing work that includes community relations, cultivating strategic opportunities to advance Pitt’s community engagement agenda, and implementing the University’s place-based community engagement initiative through the development of neighborhood-based community engagement centers.

Dostilio is the 2019 Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Research Fellow. In this role, she is developing a multi-institution research project that investigates the impact of place-based community engagement on community capacities. She was previously the Scholar in Residence directing the Campus Compact’s Project on the Community Engagement Professional, a national research project staffed by 19 research fellows across the country that has produced, The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field (Stylus Publishing, 2017) and The Community Engagement Professional Guidebook (Stylus Publishing, 2019). Dostilio has also served as a past-chair of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and is on the editorial board of the Metropolitan Universities. Her research as a scholar-administrator has focused on multi-sector partnership development, place-based community engagement, and the evolution of the community engagement profession within higher education.

Footer

Neighborhood Commitments

Partnerships that build stronger communities and a stronger University

4227 Fifth Avenue
710 Alumni Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Homewood: 412-383-0830 Hill District: 412-598-2491

cecinfo@pitt.edu

Neighborhood Commitments is a program of the Senior Vice Chancellor’s Office, housed in the Office of Community and Governmental Relations.

Connect with us in Homewood:

  • Twitter icon
  • Facebook icon
  • Instagram icon
  • Map pin icon
  • Phone icon
  • Email icon


Connect with us in the Hill District:

  • Twitter icon
  • Facebook icon
  • Instagram icon
  • Email icon

The University of Pittsburgh works in close collaboration with hundreds of community partners throughout Pittsburgh.

Pitt Engagement Map
Find Pitt in Your Community

Copyright 2021