. @CarnegieMellon has engaged in the modern version of redlining: erasing Black communities in Pittsburgh & encouraging newly admitted students to live elsewhere. CMU: How did this happen & what will be done so it doesn't again? cc: @CMUProvost @cmugsa @thetartan See below, 1/.

Here is a screenshot from the University Admissions @CM_Admission's website, where they mention "88 city neighborhoods" in text, but notably admit the Hill District, a historically black neighborhood close to campus.

Here are two photos of the Cohen University Welcome center's brochure of "Thriving" neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, given to newly admitted students, to tell them where to shop, see sights, and eat. Again, missing is the Hill District.

the Hill District is not an empty white space on a map. It is a community, with a name and history, close to us. Let's not encourage students to stay in a white bubble from their first day on campus, let's encourage them to eat, shop, and hang out with people not like them.

also, in case you think this is about "CMU protecting students from crime", its not: see this map of crime stats, and see that sections of Bloomfield, Oakland, Greenfield, South Side, and East Liberty, all recommended by CMU, are also dark blue thus "high crime":

(ignoring major issues with crime stats, over policing, etc)

@CarnegieMellon, @CM_Admission, @CMUProvost: Do better by your students: let them experience all of Pittsburgh. Do better by your Black students, not perpetrating racism against people who look like them. I am ashamed. Do better.

To put this in appropriately sharp language: CMU, this is undeniably, egregiously *racist*. This is institutional racism on paper, on screen. Black students often say they do not feel welcome here, this is (one of a million reasons) why.