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 Evergreen State College developed a writing lab course that provides weekly writing opportunities for students to experiment, observe, or practice. This 4-credit course is a “laboratory” offered in coordination with the BA Colloquium; it features direct instruction along with hands-on practice in a variety of tried-and-true techniques focused on “the 5 Rs”: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Resilience, and Rhythm (a.k.a. time management).
This news article from Open Campus examines a pre-apprenticeship program in Washington State that introduces incarcerated women to the trades.
The Three-State Recidivism Study reviews one of the major functions of the criminal justice system, that is, to rehabilitate. Over the past decade, greater emphasis has been placed on the other major rationales, specifically incarceration and punishment, without much commitment to rehabilitation. The result of the push to incarcerate and punish that occurred in the 1990s and early 2000s is an unprecedented growth in the
size of the nation’s prison and jail populations, even as crime rates have decreased. Given the economic hardship of maintaining federal, state, and local…
