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Higheredinprison.org now features a Community Events Calendar. Look for events from the Alliance for Higher Education and events hosted by the higher education in prison community.
The Alliance's COVID-19 Action page contains materials and resources created by/for or that are meaningful for higher education in prison programs from across the United States.
The Alliance is being joined by 20 programs participating in the Higher Education in Prison Reading Project and have sent over 100 copies of our upcoming book selection, "Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement".
Seats at the Table is the film portrait of Andrew Kaufman’s University of Virginia Books Behind Bars class which brings together university students with residents of a juvenile correctional center through the study of Russian literature.
The Alliance for Higher Education in Prison is announcing a Call for Proposals for Higher Education in Prison Training Resources. The Alliance invites proposals from individuals/groups to design original training resources to be made widely available to the higher education in prison community and allies across the country. The Alliance seeks projects that will help ensure high-quality, student-centered, anti-racist and humanizing experiences for students. The Alliance will make all finalized materials available to the community in print and digital formats. The project author(s) will be compensated, up to $10,000, commensurate with the scope of the individual project.
Mississippi Freedom Winter addresses the humanitarian crisis occurring throughout Mississippi's prisons and immigrant detention centers. Their Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organize against incarceration and criminalization in Mississippi through four months of political education and community building.
The Alliance is excited to announce a new partnership with Richard Milner, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Education and Founding Director of the Initiative for Race Research and Justice at Vanderbilt University and the Tennessee Higher Education in Prison Initiative to produce an Opportunity-Centered, Anti-Racist Teaching Guide specific to in-prison teaching. The guide will be organized around a series of interrelated competencies (e.g., mentoring, academic and social support, tutoring, learning theory and trauma-informed pedagogy and building responsive and relevant student learning assessment). Once produced, the guide will be made widely available for the higher education in prison community.
A 2020 Netflix series in which celebrity readers share children's books by Black authors to spark kid-friendly conversations about empathy, equality, self-love, and antiracism.
The culmination of a two-year project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Illuminating the Darkness: Our Carceral Landscape brings together a diverse selection of work made by twenty-five artists for exhibition at the UCF Art Gallery. Associated online programming includes a For Freedoms Town Hall and panel discussion with system-impacted artists and activists.
The John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity (the Institute) will offer a Collective Leadership Supervisor Training entirely online this fall.
The Project Rebound Consortium is launching new programs at additional CSU campuses. One of these programs is at CSU Northridge, one of the largest universities in the state, which is hiring a Program Coordinator to help found their program. Please share this opportunity throughout your networks, particularly with individuals who share these values, have an incarceration experience themselves, and have overcome barriers similar to the population that Project Rebound serves.
In "Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens", The Education Trust outlines how to shift the focus away from “fixing kids” and toward addressing adult beliefs and mindsets as well as school and district policies to create an equitable learning environment.
The Marshall Project is collecting data on COVID-19 infections in state and federal prisons.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites proposals from organizations and programs in the United States and its territories that focus on the future of higher learning for incarcerated students.
People in prison have often been relegated to “better than nothing” education, writes Tanya Erzen, and the inequities could become more prevalent during the pandemic.
The Education Trust is conducting research, and inviting survey participation, which will center on the voices of Black borrowers.
The program offers emerging writers an opportunity to have their work read by published poets and authors. The contest is open now and runs until August 30, 2020.
Having a parent in prison is an adverse childhood experience, a childhood trauma that can lead to poor health and wellbeing as an adult. Yet, these children can thrive if they build resilience.
Download this printable Yoga and meditation manual developed for people who are currently incarcerated by Yoga Behind Bars (YBB).
The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project newsletter, The Warbler, is available to anyone interested in being on their weekly distribution list.
College Behind Bars (originally on PBS) is now streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime and can be sent to your program.
The application period is open now until August 11, 2020.
The Covid Collection, a one-time literary journal publication, seeks compelling prose, poetry and art from incarcerated writers residing in a state or federal facility.
Report on data collected showing the cost of policing around the United States.
Support for postsecondary institutions and community partners to remove barriers to: food, housing, childcare, mental health services, transportation, or digital access for postsecondary students.
