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This timely manual presents a new perspective on teaching and learning focused on countering the impacts of trauma on adults’ ability to learn. Within its detailed and useful approaches, Daniels provides a road map for building a trauma-responsive teaching practice grounded in the principles of trauma-informed care, and emphasizing the need for educators to develop a rigorous practice of self-care.
This guide from the College System of Tennessee seeks to offer guidance and dispel myths regarding occupational licensure both for prior justice-involved students as well as stakeholders such as advisors, college personnel, and others who may act as gatekeepers to these various occupations.
This report introduces the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison's mission, goals, values, and everyday work. It orients the reader to the Alliance's many ongoing projects and its work for the 2021 fiscal year, and identifies some of the exciting work and transitions that lie ahead. The document covers the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison’s broader operations for the fiscal calendar year between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022.
Annual report: This program's mission is to provide access to rigorous, quality higher education for people experiencing incarceration, and to provide support to students post-release. This program serves adult women, with college credit offerings.
Student handbook: Blackstone Career Institute is committed to providing quality, relevant, and affordable distance education programs that focus on the knowledge and skills needed for entry-level careers, professional development, or personal goals. Instruction is remote, by correspondence.
Curriculum overview: As a champion of institutional, structural, and personal transformation, the Institute opens doors and eliminates barriers to success for people who have been involved in the criminal legal system. The Institute creates access to higher education and pathways to satisfying careers. It advocates for the right to housing, employment, healthcare, and other human rights too often denied people with criminal convictions.
This is a project announcement about how Ithaka S+R and Ennead Lab are launching a two-year research and design project to both understand how space acts as a limiting factor on the quality and scalability of higher education in prison and propose solutions to mitigate these challenges.
Ithaka S+R’s letter to the Department of Education outlines their concerns and provides recommendations that would help ensure that people who are incarcerated in the United States are provided the opportunity to participate in and benefit from a quality education.
This blog post details how DOC education leadership and staff were planning to respond to the restoration of Pell Grants for incarcerated college students.
This is a student FAFSA information document for the Institute for Justice and Opportunity. As a champion of institutional, structural, and personal transformation, the Institute opens doors and eliminates barriers to success for people who have been involved in the criminal legal system. We create access to higher education and pathways to satisfying careers.
The Chillon Project at Life University provides credit-bearing classes and degrees to people in prison and formerly incarcerated people in Georgia; creates learning communities grounded in principles of compassion and conflict transformation; and shares resources and builds skills that enable people to thrive, benefit others, and build the world they wish to see, no matter where they are.
This resource is a guidebook for re-entering society with technology.
This report aims to stimulate conversation about the benefits of HEP in the state, describe the development of HEP nationally and in Illinois, and provide a blueprint for overcoming existing barriers to expanding quality HEP in all Illinois prisons.
In this report, the authors provide a descriptive overview of the landscape of higher education in prison during the 2020-2021 academic year (July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021), based on the responses of known higher education in prison program staff (N=406) to the 2022 Annual Survey of Higher Education in Prison Programs.
This brief report outlines the potential impacts of Pell restoration on the field of higher education in prison. Using original qualitative data from interviews with 12 higher education in prison programs and quantitative data from a national survey of college programs in prison, the analysis focuses on persistent funding challenges that the Pell Grant alone cannot address.
Participant satisfaction surveys help behavioral health-criminal justice programs assess the quality of service being provided and their impact on individual outcomes, as well as help them to determine if there are disparities in program and service delivery.
This is a recording from the San Francisco Public Library's Banned Books event.
In February of 2021, Ascendium supported Open Campus Media’s virtual convening of more than 100 attendees exploring the future of technology in postsecondary education in prison. Representatives from universities, advocacy groups, funders, and state corrections systems examined such topics as student perspectives on technology in prison education and the lifting of the Pell Grant ban. This summary highlights the day’s discussions.
This is a BJA solicitation for the Second Chance Act: Adult Reentry Education, Employment, Treatment, and Recovery Program.
