Brian Williams serves as Associate Director for Student Success Scholars Programs and directs both the Kessler Provost Scholars program, a program that supports a cohorts of 20 first-generation students throughout their undergraduate degree, and which welcomed its third cohort in Fall 2025, and the Posse program, a program that prepares students for college and supports them throughout their undergraduate degree. He also oversees the daily operations in the Student Success Hub, a space for students to collaborate with each other and with University resources in Langley Hall.
Brian serves as a liaison to the Pitt CARE Team, a group of University collaborators that serve as a centralized team to identify and resolve student academic, behavioral, and mental health concerns, as well. Brian also works on the First at Pitt Initiative at Pitt. The First at Pitt initiative identifies, supports, and celebrates our current first-generation students, as well as first-generation faculty, staff, and alumni through programming and an award-winning mentorship program.
Being a first-generation student himself, he is dedicated to ensuring every student has the chance to succeed and feel they belong at Pitt, regardless of their background or situation.
Brian earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Pitt and later received his master’s in Sports-Exercise Psychology.