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...
Nov 1, 2022 | Open Educational Resources, Spark Grants
As more postsecondary courses implement digital textbooks, publishers, in turn, are able to access more student data than ever before. Higher education leaders, however, report not having the information needed to combat the resulting student privacy concerns. To...
