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Reimagining the Role of Colleges and Universities in Prison Education

Mon, Apr 24

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Marquette University Alumni Center

Please join us for EPP's Symposium: Reimagining the Role of Colleges and Universities in Prison Education: Research, Policy, and Practice

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Reimagining the Role of Colleges and Universities in Prison Education
Reimagining the Role of Colleges and Universities in Prison Education

Time & Location

Apr 24, 2023, 8:00 AM – Apr 25, 2023, 2:30 PM

Marquette University Alumni Center, 1442 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA

About the event

Reimagining the Role of Colleges and Universities in Prison Education: Research, Policy and Practice is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It will be held in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballrooms (3rd floor) on April 24th (8am-5:15pm) and April 25th (8am-2:30pm). The Keynote Speaker is Dr. Christopher Beasley, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma Dr. Beasley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma, where he studies social and psychological factors involved in prison and post-prison higher education, leads the development of the Husky Post-Prison Pathways initiative, and advises the Formerly Incarcerated Student Association. His scholarly work emphasizes the possibilities incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people imagine, influences on these possibilities, and how they alter life courses. He’s also spoken extensively about the role of people with lived expertise in the creation of social change and ways to realize this potential. Dr. Beasley is invested in this scholarship…

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