ComPITence helps professors teach students the tools to enter the field of public interest technology, and helps students and those already in the field to develop PIT skills and access PIT jobs, materials and organizations.
To do that, the project team of academic and industry experts (from institutions such as Fordham University, IBM, All Tech is Human, CUNY, MIT AI Watson Lab, Brown University) co-created a list of academic competencies–reflecting the values, knowledge, skills and behaviors, with SOUR’s facilitation of the process. We encourage instructors to adopt these competencies in course and curricular design. We also created a toolkit with of syllabi, books and job hunt information to help people learn about the field. This work is supported by funding from the Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) and is freely available to any instructor interested in infusing PIT in their courses.
