Participation and Outcomes in SUNY College in Prison Programs

This research report offers findings to guide discussions with program administrators, faculty, and formerly incarcerated students on how to improve student access, curriculum choice, retention, and completion. To see how SUNY programs serve people in New York prisons and after they leave incarceration, SUNY’s Office of Higher Education in Prison (SUNY HEP) created a longitudinal data system that links regularly collected student data from the SUNY Institutional Research Information System (SIRIS) and the National Student Clearinghouse with individual-level corrections data from DOCCS. This report, the third in a series (Gais et al., 2019; Gais, Grace, and Wilner, 2021), draws on these data to analyze incarcerated student enrollment, diversity, course subject areas, retention, and completion.