Nov 30, 2022 | Open Educational Resources
By Marissa Martinez In September of 2015, I took out my first student loan. It covered the cost of my university textbooks and course materials. I was freshly 18 and on my own for the first time, I even remember handing my (still vertical) ID to the Free Application...
Nov 29, 2022 | Event, Smart Justice
By Kenia Miranda Verdugo Research has shown time and time again that higher education can lead to a better quality of life for currently and formerly incarcerated students, their families, and entire communities. Although California is one of the leading states in...
Nov 22, 2022 | Smart Justice, Spark Grants
Guiding this year’s 2022 Smart Justice Spark Grants funding cycle, which opened on November 21, 2022, are a team of directly impacted scholars, advocates, and justice reform champions, who will provide feedback on the cycle’s applications and grant-making process: ...
Nov 14, 2022 | Smart Justice
Damien Busby, pictured above, has earned six associate degrees in prison and is working towards his bachelor’s through Pitzer College’s Justice Education Initiative. By Kenia Miranda Verdugo National estimates put the number of colleges teaching in prisons...
Nov 8, 2022 | Smart Justice
Matthew Barnes, a student in the College of the Redwoods Pelican Bay Scholars Program, embodies the reality that higher education can lead to a better quality of life for currently and formerly incarcerated students, their families, and entire communities. As he looks...
