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Marquette University Receives $1.25 Million to Bolster Prison Education Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marquette University recently received over a million dollars from the Mellon Foundation to further energize and grow its prison education program. The program is headed by two organizations housed within Marquette’s Center for Urban Research, Teaching, & Outreach (CURTO).

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3 considerations for prison education programs

EAB

Blogs 3 considerations for prison education programs What you need to know ahead of July’s restoration of Second Chance Pell grants Given the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students expected in July 2023 , many institutions are beginning to develop plans for Prison Education Programs (PEPs).

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JSTOR's Digital Archives Now Reach Over Half a Million Incarcerated Learners

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But with the revival of a way for those in prison to better access higher education, per the Second Chance Pell pilot program in 2015 , ITHAKA saw the potential to do more. ITHAKA realized that this little, tiny thumb drive may not be enough to support higher education at scale,” Burnett said. “So,

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Prison education in the rearview mirror Prison education programs have long been in the crossfire of fierce clashes between those viewing prisons as proper punishment to promote a safe and just society and those seeing prisons as democracy’s hope for rehabilitation and restorative justice. In 2015, the U.S.

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Music Opens Doorway to Opportunity for Incarcerated Youth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s part of BreakFree Education, an organization which partners with juvenile justice agencies across the nation to offer educational programs. It was written for the Unsung songwriting competition, where incarcerated youth write and produce their own music. Getting validation from someone like that can be lifechanging.”

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

According to Singleton (2015), the four elements of creating space for courageous dialogue are to stay engaged, experience discomfort, speak your truth, expect and accept non-closure. Culturally responsive practices in our teacher education programs. Voices for Educational Equity , 18 (2), 34–38. 2010; Swan et al.,

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“The workshops are held at the sites of many corporate partners where fellows have the opportunity to interact and learn from professionals across many different fields,” says Brianna Vera, educational program manager at HISPA and a former participant in the Governor’s Hispanic Fellows Program.