The Office of Engagement and Community Affairs (ECA) is the core unit at the University of Pittsburgh with responsibility to advance a community engagement strategy for the University, to ensure Pitt is a partner and asset to the region, to mobilize the University’s response to community-identified problems and concerns, and to support faculty and staff in delivering sustainable and substantive engagement and outreach activities.

Everything that ECA does ultimately has a single purpose: to make it easier for communities, public leaders, faculty, staff and students to forge meaningful and more effective collaborations.