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Direct linkCantora, Andrea; Miller, Joshua; White, Kathleen – Journal of Correctional Education, 2020
In August 2015, the U.S. Department of Education announced an experimental program that would allow higher education institutions to offer postsecondary educational programs inside adult prisons. The U.S. Department of Education's Second Chance Pell Grant Experimental Sites Initiative would allow state and federal incarcerated students to apply…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons
Download full textArambula, Raul; LeBlanc, Leslie – California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2018
In this report, the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (Chancellor's Office) presents its findings, evaluations and analysis of the success and efficacy of the face-to-face community college programs that are being offered to incarcerated students inside California state prisons. The report also discusses barriers and challenges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Halperin, Ronnie; Kessler, Suzanne; Braunschweiger, Dana – Journal of Correctional Education, 2012
Educational achievement has been shown to be negatively correlated with recidivism among those released from prison (Nuttall, Hollmen, and Staley, 2003). The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a prison art rehabilitation program, Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), on inmate participation in voluntary educational programs. RTA…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Programs, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, College Programs
Rose, Chris; Reschenberg, Kristin; Richards, Stephen – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2010
While we know formal education is an important variable for reducing recidivism, there are few prison systems still offering college courses. We introduce the Inviting Convicts to College Program that deploys undergraduate student-teachers as instructors of college level courses inside prisons. The student-teachers are supervised by professors.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Teachers, Qualitative Research, Correctional Institutions
Peer reviewedStanley-Muchow, Jan L.; Poe, Betty Y. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1988
Used teleconferencing to provide three-week long community college course on personality development, values, self-concept, coping, and communication skills to 14 elderly nursing home residents. Five participants chosen to illustrate diverse responses to class all showed increased involvement with others, gains in integration of new dependencies…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Programs, Community Colleges, Delivery Systems
Edwards-Wiley, Tina L.; Chivers, Nadia – Journal of Correctional Education, 2005
To examine the perception of instructors who teach in prison college programs, two studies were conducted, the first in 1993 and the second in 2003. Three areas of measurement were included in the survey instrument sent to professors working in the Ball State University's Prison Program, Muncie, IN. The first measurement was that of instructors'…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons
