In an effort to make visible the national landscape of access to educational technology in prison education programs, Ithaka S+R launched a first-of-its-kind national survey in the fall of 2022, with grant funding support from Ascendium Education Group. The survey asked respondents about student access to technology in their higher education in prison program, collecting demographic information before focusing on four thematic areas: technological devices, learning management systems and software, network connection and internet access, and future technology plans. In the wake of this…
This report provides an introduction to services and programs available within California by collecting descriptive information about each. These programs do not necessarily represent a catalog of best practices or model programs that have been proven to be effective. Rather, this report is a starting block from which to build that analysis, and the authors suggest that as the next important stage in related research.
An abridged account of the keynote address at the 2013 National Conference on Higher Education in Prison at Saint Louis University, which focused on the power of prison higher education to bring about an end to this society’s grossly excessive reliance on incarceration.
This report seeks to expand college opportunities for currently and formerly incarcerated students in California.
The campus scan is an examination of the policies and practices of campus units with which formerly incarcerated individuals are likely to have contact. This document seeks to better understand the obstacles and challenges formerly incarcerated people (FIP) may have in navigating campus, and where on campus they are likely to encounter resources, support, and points of encouragement.
Guidelines prepared by EJP students to assist those with responsibility for representing students enrolled in higher educations programs in prison.
This resource highlights existing higher education programs in Illinois state prisons and uplifts the need for additional programs and supportive policies across the state.
A compiled list of terms that replace oppressive institutional terminology with empowering and uplifting language.
The overall purpose of NCHEP is to provide an annual opportunity for the higher education in prison community to gather and mobilize the talent, resources, and energy needed to expand access to quality higher education and academic reentry support services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.
A sampling of academic studies and research articles about colleges and universities providing higher education for formerly incarcerated individuals and the range of considerations this work entails.
