The US Department of Education’s new regulations governing the implementation of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated people include a requirement to gather stakeholder feedback, including feedback from justice-impacted people. This webinar focuses on how state consortia, or structured stakeholder partnerships, can facilitate this process and ensure the voices of directly impacted people are heard and valued.
The webinar showcases the work of several prison-based education programs to develop student advisory boards in prison, establish reentry navigators on college campuses, and collaborate with formerly incarcerated people within student-led and other community-based organizations that support current students. The work of these programs creates leade ...
This webinar spotlights Manufacturing Extension Partnerships (MEP) Centers. These centers, which currently operate in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, connect individuals reentering their community with employment in manufacturing. Leaders from colleges and corrections departments as well as employers speak about how they are working together to help ...
The U.S. Department of Education has published final regulations about the requirements colleges with approved prison education programs (PEPs) must follow in order for students who are incarcerated to be eligible to access Pell Grants for an academic credential. This webinar covers key takeaways from the final rules for college PEPs, departments o ...