A guide created for colleges and corrections departments seeking to set up new programs to help program coordinators launch a college in prison program—from the decision to undertake this work to the first day of class.
This webinar discusses some key factors in successfully setting up a satellite campus. Experts in the field discuss the importance of institutional support, creating learning communities that transcend prison walls, creating academic calendars, and more.
This webinar explores how organizations and educational programming can effectively recruit and train leaders and staff. Specifically, this webinar provides insight into important hiring techniques to ensure that formerly incarcerated people have significant roles in the work that impacts them and their communities.
This webinar features multiple perspectives from professionals in the field of higher education in prison on developing memorandums of understanding (MOUs). These experts provide valuable advice on negotiating and collaborating with various stakeholders and navigating multiple financial considerations throughout the development of the MOU.
This webinar offers a review of research related to postsecondary education in prisons and recidivism. Panelists discuss some of their own research on this subject, what this and other research means for evaluating postsecondary education programs, and what is or should be on the horizon in this field.
This data brief summarizes results from the first six years of the Vera Institute of Justice's Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative (SCP), launched by the U.S. Department of Education in 2015.
This report from the Vera Institute of Justice summarizes five case studies of state departments of corrections and their partners that have created robust job training programs. These programs provide incarcerated people with opportunities to earn industry-relevant credentials and prepare for in-demand careers after release.
This fact sheet from the Vera Institute of Justice highlights new regulations, passed by Congress on October 28, 2022, that prison education programs must follow to access Pell Grants for incarcerated students.
The U.S. Department of Education’s new regulations governing the implementation of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated people include a requirement to gather stakeholder feedback, including feedback from justice-impacted people. This webinar focuses on how state consortia, or structured stakeholder partnerships, can facilitate this process and ensure the voices of directly impacted people are heard and valued.
The U.S. Department of Education has published final regulations about the requirements colleges with approved prison education programs (PEPs) must follow in order for students who are incarcerated to be eligible to access Pell Grants for an academic credential. This webinar covers key takeaways from the final rules for college PEPs, departments of corrections, and accreditation agencies.
