Awarded Grants

This grant supports Pennsylvania State University in refining and packaging a Reentry Simulation Toolkit to support and drive culture change regarding the integration of incarcerated students back into communities post-release. This Reentry Simulation Toolkit will contribute to the field by raising awareness of common challenges and barriers experienced by formerly incarcerated students who are navigating reentry, and enabling critical discussions about the ways prison postsecondary programs and reentry providers can better promote the successful reentry, transfer, degree completion, and workforce success of students.

This grant supports Resilience Education in refining and packaging its instructor training program to effectively prepare instructors to teach in carceral settings.

This grant supports St. Louis University in refining and packaging the curriculum for a Prison Education College Preparation Program to support incarcerated learners’ success in a postsecondary program.

This grant supports the Regents of the University of California in refining and packaging a research guide and data-collection instruments for postsecondary education in prison program evaluation and improvement. This resource will contribute to the field by outlining a participatory research model and data
collection instruments and materials.

This grant supports the University of Baltimore in refining and packaging its Reentry Support Services Roadmap to support incarcerated students’ preparation for reentry and successful degree or certificate completion after release. This reentry roadmap and peer-navigator model will contribute to the field by sharing a statewide approach to providing students with in-prison
peer support, guides to support reentry, and formalized postrelease peer supports.

This grant supports the University of Northern Alabama in refining and packaging a community-building toolkit to support postsecondary education in prison program implementation.

This grant supports the University of St. Mary in refining and packaging a survey instrument to support student preparation and program implementation. This survey will contribute to the field by providing a tool with which individual programs and the field more broadly can gain insights into the specific challenges that incarcerated learners experience related to their physical
needs, safety, sense of belonging, esteem, and self-actualization, which, if addressed, could improve enrollment, retention, and graduation rates.

This grant supports Unlocked Labs in refining and packaging a toolkit for implementing education technology in prisons to support program implementation and address digital equity issues for learners who are incarcerated.

This grant supports the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University in producing research and an interactive data tool that postsecondary providers can use to align their credentials with local well-paying jobs. It also supports initial planning for research on short-term workforce training programs.

This grant supports Indij Public Media in expanding national reporting on postsecondary education and workforce training for Native learners and communities.