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. To the authors' knowledge, the data presented here are the best available information about the state of higher education in prison programming for the 2020-2021 academic year. Data for this report are drawn from responses to the 2022 Annual Survey of Higher Education…
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. Specifically, it highlights three distinct and pressing challenges for the field of higher education in light of Pell restoration, related to: 1. access to funding other than FAFSA, including college/university specific…
This report offers information about the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on higher education in prison programs. The data used for this report come from two sources: 1) the 2020 Annual Survey of Higher Education in Prison Programs, and 2) the Understanding the Landscape of Higher Education in Prison Programs Survey. These findings are part of an ongoing time-series data collection process that will continue through semi-annual surveys distributed to higher education in prison programs through the United States.
The Understanding the Landscape of Higher Education Prison Survey (Landscape Survey) was designed as a confidential follow-up to the 2020 Annual Survey of Higher Education in Prison Programs (2020 Annual Survey), distributed by the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison. The Landscape Survey contained 93 questions designed to collect both descriptive and open-ended responses from participants about their college-in-prison programs during the 2018/2019 academic year.
This survey was designed as a confidential follow-up to the 2020 Annual Survey of Higher Education in Prison.
Student evaluation form: 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. It 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 program serves adult men, with college credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face, and remote.
This document discusses a program evaluation of the STEP-UP program at Shasta College. STEP-UP's mission is to provide academic, logistical, and limited financial support for students who have been formerly incarcerated and/or have suffered from alcohol or drug addiction. This program serves adult men and women, with college credit and non-credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face.
Program evaluation: Freedom Prep is a college transition program for court-involved youth age 16-24. The goal is to provide a supported, structured on-ramp to college for currently and formerly incarcerated and court-involved young people. In addition to the opportunity to earn up to six college credits through a free college classes, the students receive college counseling and advising through CUNY programs such as the Foster Care Initiative, the John Jay Institute for Justice and Opportunity, College Now, and CUNY Start. Freedom Prep gives students who have experienced multiple barriers…
This resource discusses the findings from a follow-up survey to the 2020 Annual Survey of Higher Education in Prison Programs.
This resource shares a preliminary analysis regarding the scaling of Second Chance Pell as it relates to educational equity.
