What is the state of the field of higher education in prison? What is its future? In this group, you can join conversations that critically reflect on the culture, history, and future of the field.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the culture of HEP programs and classrooms, norms in the field, the history of the field, and its future.
Group Content
Prison-Based Education and Re-Entry Into the Mainstream Labor Market
Estimates of post-release economic effects of participation in prison-based general educational development (GED) programs using a panel of earnings records and a rich set of individual information from administrative data in the state of Florida.
The Possibility Report: From Prison to College Degrees in California
This is a report that uplifts the voices of formerly incarcerated students in California's public colleges and universities.
A Humanizing Terminology Guide
A compiled list of terms that replace oppressive institutional terminology with empowering and uplifting language.
National Directory of Higher Education in Prison Programs
This directory includes links to HEP program statistics by state, a map view of HEP program locations across the country, a directory of HEP programs across the country, data archives from previous years, a how-to guide on using the directory, and other relevant links and resources.
HEP Community Newsletter Archives
This webpage includes links to each HEP newsletter.
Alliance Strategic Plan
This strategic plan outlines the core projects that fall under each of the Alliance's focus areas—Building Community, Producing Knowledge, Supporting Quality Practice, Shaping Dialogue, and Ensuring Sustainability—and the impact the Alliance seeks to have in these areas.
National Conference on Higher Education in Prison
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.
Prison-to-Gown Reading List
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.
