The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) brings together leaders from midwestern states to develop cost-savings opportunities, generate collaborative solutions to challenges and opportunities in higher education, and promote postsecondary alignment with workforce needs.
Since the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students under the FAFSA Simplification Act, colleges and universities across the country are exploring meaningful ways to design, launch, and scale high-quality Prison Education Programs (PEPs). As part of MHEC’s commitment to elevating…
Earning a postsecondary credential is a critical pathway to economic success. However, for more than 70 million people with a history of arrest, conviction, or incarceration, involvement in the criminal legal system results in a series of collateral consequences that limit their upward economic mobility. Limited access to education is one of these consequences. For decades, individuals who were incarcerated were not eligible for Pell Grants, a form of federal financial aid to help eligible students pay for college. As a result, higher education in prison was rare.…
A New Path: Deportation to Honduras is a new guide from the Education Justice Project that provides clear, practical information for individuals facing deportation to Honduras.
The guide covers:
- What to expect upon arrival in Honduras, including how to stay safe;
- Information on housing, employment, education, and more;
- Practical tips for navigating the return and reintegration…
The 2026-2027 Incarcerated Applicant Form of the FAFSA is now officially available for our Prison Education Program and Second Chance Pell students who are using the paper form.
Go to nasfaa.org/pep to access both the English and Spanish versions of the paper FAFSA.
If your student is completing the online version for 2026-2027, that is accessible at https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa
Teaching and learning centers—encompassing writing centers, academic support services, tutoring programs, and faculty development hubs—are home to experienced staff committed to inclusive pedagogy, student success, and continuous faculty learning. Yet many of these educational developers are unaware of their university’s own HEP program and the students who could benefit tremendously from their support.
…The New England Prison Education Collaborative invites you to the second session in our quarterly virtual workshop series, “Approaches to Reentry: Programs and Pathways in New England.”
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 24, 3-4:15 P.M. EDT
Registration Link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d9d24622-5520-4e62-a7fb-922384134dd1@b380b9ab-1b37-4852-8ea8-0b3d58a47bed
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The Puttkammer Center for Educational Justice at the Petey Greene Program is launching a new working group focused on academic co-creation with incarcerated scholars. We hope to gather a diverse group of scholars, faculty, and advocates, including and especially those who are impacted by the criminal legal system, to share theories and practices of co-creation that engage incarcerated scholars. We look forward to learning from each other, and we are especially interested in exploring…
Produced by Achieving the Dream, this Toolkit synthesizes research from the field and stories from our colleges and offers a vast array of work-sheets and planning templates to support college teams in building institutional capacity in teaching and learning. The purpose of this toolkit is for college teams of faculty, faculty/educational developers, Student Affairs professionals, and Academic Affairs leaders to use this resource as they collaborate to change their institutional culture.
Developed by the Life University Center for Compassion, Integrity, and Secular Ethics (CCISE), this resource manual offers guidelines for practice and trains readers to use a secular ethics approach to cultivating personal, social, and environmental flourishing. Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) is a multi-part training program that cultivates basic human values as skills for the purpose of increasing individual, social, and environmental flourishing. By covering a range of skills from self-regulation and self-compassion to compassion for others and engagement with complex…
This resource is a syllabus for the Prison Writing Center Praxis I/O course offered at Scripps College by Dr. Kimberley Drake. In this course, students will discuss the theory and practice of an Inside/Out Writing Center, with the goal of establishing and maintaining a Writing Center at CRC. The class will examine academic writing alongside journalism and other forms of nonfiction writing, and students will practice these kinds of writing and all aspects of the writing process as they learn how to give one-on-one feedback in a Writing Center setting. Along the way, students will discuss…
