Educational Collaboration
Pratt Center works with students and faculty primarily from Pratt Institute's Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development as well as other departments, including the School of Library and Information Science and Communications Design. Graduate students provide research, technical assistance, mapping, and other services for Pratt Center clients. Each academic year, the Pratt Center invites Pratt Center Fellows, a select group of Pratt Institute students, to work in Pratt Center's office and in New York City neighborhoods on research, planning, design, and other projects.
In 2013 Pratt Center launched the Taconic Fellowship program, made possible by a grant from the Taconic Foundation. The Fellowship program supports field work conducted by Pratt Institute faculty, staff, and students, that advances the Pratt Center's goals of sustainability and equity in community development and responds to the evolving needs of a changing society. The goals of the Fellowship are to expose more disciplines to community development work and to support Pratt Institute's commitment to collaboration, inter-disciplinary projects and service learning opportunities.
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