The Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS), with generous support from the Mellon Foundation, is forming a national consortium of higher education in prison programs that operate in prisons designated for women.
The Womxn’s Higher Education in Prison Consortium (WHEP) is a collaborative initiative designed to advance equity in higher education for incarcerated women, transgender, and gender-nonconforming individuals. This groundbreaking effort brings together programs operating in women-designated prisons to address shared challenges, foster…
A New Path: A Guide to the Challenges and Opportunities After Deportation is a guide for people who live in the United States with the threat of deportation. This guide includes information on topics such as
- Know your rights
- Planning for possible deportation
- What to expect with detention and deportation
- How to connect with resources in your home country
- …
Title: Completing the PEP Application and the E-App Process
Date: January 28, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 75 minutes
Price: Free
When Partner Connect and the E-App changed at the beginning of 2024, schools discovered they would need to add some unanticipated details to their application the first time they did a submission after that. And when the process and documentation to apply to be a Prison Education Program (PEP) via the E-App changed in the…
Ithaka S+R designed a playbook to help correctional education leaders center student learning as they navigate the education technology landscape. The guide, created with support from Ascendium Education Group and in dialogue with several correctional education leaders, provides decision-making tools and frameworks to assist leaders as they consider how to implement new education technology in prisons.
The playbook includes:
- A framework to help correctional…
Ithaka S+R designed a playbook to help correctional education leaders center student learning as they navigate the education technology landscape. The guide, created with support from Ascendium Education Group and in dialogue with several correctional education leaders, provides decision-making tools and frameworks to assist leaders as they consider how to implement new education technology in prisons.
The playbook includes:
- A framework to help correctional…
While end-of-course surveys are standard in most colleges and universities, they’re often designed for traditional students and overlook the unique needs of incarcerated students and the educators who serve them. This guide bridges that gap, offering evaluation questions tailored to the prison education context. Developed with input from students enrolled in prison education programs, it’s a tool to help ensure course evaluations are both meaningful and relevant.
This guide was developed in collaboration between the Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates…
While end-of-course surveys are standard in most colleges and universities, they’re often designed for traditional students and overlook the unique needs of incarcerated students and the educators who serve them. This guide bridges that gap, offering evaluation questions tailored to the prison education context. Developed with input from students enrolled in prison education programs, it’s a tool to help ensure course evaluations are both meaningful and relevant.
This guide was developed in collaboration between the Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates…
On September 30, 2024, Ithaka S+R released a new research report exploring how colleges and community organizations partner to provide reentry services.
The following text was posted on the Ithaka S+R blog to announce publication.
When revised federal Pell Grant regulations went into effect in July of 2023, one of the provisions stipulated that college in prison programs would be obliged to document how they provide reentry services…
On September 30, 2024, Ithaka S+R released a new research report exploring how colleges and community organizations partner to provide reentry services.
The following text was posted on the Ithaka S+R blog to announce publication.
When revised federal Pell Grant regulations went into effect in July of 2023, one of the provisions stipulated that college in prison programs would be obliged to document how they provide reentry services…
On September 30, 2024, the Department of Education significantly revised its instructions that allow schools to apply to be official Prison Education Programs. The announcement details the new instructions and provides some process clarifications. You can find more information at the NASFAA PEP WebCenter, located at nasfaa.org/pep. The link to information about starting a Prison Education Program, including the announcement, can be found at https://www.nasfaa.org/starting_pep.
We are assessing the impacts of…