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OER Gives Students the Opportunity to Reclaim Their Education—How Open 22 Inspired a Recent Graduate

OER Gives Students the Opportunity to Reclaim Their Education—How Open 22 Inspired a Recent Graduate

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...
A Discussion on the Inside: Impacted Leaders Consult on How The California’s Best Practices Support Incarcerated Students

A Discussion on the Inside: Impacted Leaders Consult on How The California’s Best Practices Support Incarcerated Students

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...
Get to Know the 2022 Smart Justice Spark Community Advisors Who Will Guide Our Work

Get to Know the 2022 Smart Justice Spark Community Advisors Who Will Guide Our Work

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: ...
Less Than a Year Until Federal Pell Grants Will Be Given to Incarcerated Scholars, Students Are Clamoring for Four-Year Degree Programs

Less Than a Year Until Federal Pell Grants Will Be Given to Incarcerated Scholars, Students Are Clamoring for Four-Year Degree Programs

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...
How College of the Redwoods Pelican Bay Scholars Program Is Leading Matthew Barnes, a First Generation Student, to a Bachelor’s of Arts in English

How College of the Redwoods Pelican Bay Scholars Program Is Leading Matthew Barnes, a First Generation Student, to a Bachelor’s of Arts in English

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...
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