Posted on February 12, 2025
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5 COMMENTS
I work at Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC), the largest community college in Pennsylvania. This semester, we started a PEP that offers a liberal arts degree inside Camp Hill State Prison, which is in our service area. All degrees at our institution require students to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course. Our current courses do not meet the needs (and also may not be appropriate- respecting the experiences of our incarcerated scholars). I am wondering if any college currently offers a FYS for this population of students.
Thank you.
Connie Ogle
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Comment by Mary Cusack on Mon, 02/17/2025 - 10:44
I believe that Jackson College in Michigan has a FYE class in their PEP. Their coordinator is Lynn Wood:
woodlynnm@jccmi.edu
We don't require a FYE/FYS, but we do distribute the Open Stax "College Success" book at our orientations and plan on developing a series of non-credit seminars around the relevant content.
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Comment by Connie Ogle on Tue, 02/18/2025 - 09:17
Thank you, Mary. I just sent an email to Lynn. I appreciate your response and help.
Connie
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Comment by Travis Sands on Wed, 04/09/2025 - 13:04
Hi Connie. We do as part of the TREC Partnership here in Minnesota. We are also building a "bridge" program for incoming first-year students.
We'd be happy to talk/share resources/etc.
Warmly,
Travis
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Comment by Connie Ogle on Wed, 04/09/2025 - 13:14
Hi Travis,
I would love to connect. My email is cmogle@hacc.edu.
Thank you for the response.
Connie
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Comment by Lauren Rhae on Tue, 10/21/2025 - 15:13
Connie,
I may be too late to be helpful, but I work for TN Higher Education Initiative (THEI). We have created a robust set of institution-neutral, college navigation resources that might be helpful. Navigating Forward can be found here: https://www.thei.org/resources/navigating-forward
Hope this helps! LR