20MM News Archive

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

Countless students in prison have completed their associate degrees and are ready for the next step. Some incarcerated students even have up to seven associates degrees, which only demonstrates the yearning for education within 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

Matthew Barnes College of the Redwoods Pelican Bay Scholars

Matthew Barnes, a student in the College of the Redwoods Pelican Bay Scholars Program, shares the impact higher education in prison has had on him, his future plans, and thoughts on California’s Best Practices.

Safeguarding Student Data – SPARC Is Analyzing How Digital Textbook Publishers Gather and Use Personal Information

Via a Spark Grant, SPARC will analyze how the top three to five textbook and coursework publishers are collecting and using student data.

Advocacy From Within: Women Transcending

Because of the work of seven impactful and inspiring women, hundreds of incarcerated students from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility are now going home with degrees. The Women Transcending Oral History Research Project will document the stories of successful organizing efforts by incarcerated women, beginning with the story of Bedford Hills.

Get to Know the 2022 Student Basic Needs Spark Grantees

In an effort to help ensure California’s students may persist and graduate, we are pleased to award Michelson Spark Grants to three organizations that are addressing student basic needs head on.

Rising to Action: How OpenEd22 Will Move OER Forward

Rise to Action is more than just a OpenEd theme; it is a challenge for attendees to “move forward and act in concrete ways that make education more accessible, affordable, equitable and inclusive to everyone regardless of their background, experience, or level of access to resources.”

Live Long and Prosper in the Utopic–Yet Realistic–World of Open Educational Resources

Open education has the potential to democratize education, breaking the gifts of knowledge out of the classroom and into our lives. Is this impossibly utopianist? Maybe. But to quote Captain Picard, “Things are only impossible until they’re not.”

What’s Next for Higher Education in Prison? Join Michelson 20MM and the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison for NCHEP 12

The National Conference on Higher Education in Prison will dive into paying with Pell Grants, building connections, eTutoring, educational equity and accessibility through technology, advancing college opportunities, centering the voices of formerly incarcerated women in educational leadership, and more.

From Performative to Action: Education Leaders and Advocates Convene to Push For Education Equity

“If we want to be less performative and more action oriented, we need to listen to the community and to students and let them guide our work,” Miguel Leon said. Learn more from Education Trust-West’s 2022 Education Equity Forum

How Creative Commons Is Empowering Open Educational Resources Advocates in the California Community College System

Creative Commons will build upon past Spark Grants in the Bay Area to expand capacity in this region by empowering 15 educators, librarians, and others within the CCC system to attend the Creative Commons Certificate Bootcamp.