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Cornell Prison Program Receives $1 Million Grant to Expand
By ithaca.com- Melissa Osgood
Published: 10/07/2015

The Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) plans to expand to provide classes and degree programs in four regional prisons, establish a consortium of regional colleges and universities participating in prison education, and create a model college-in-prison network in the region with support from a $1 million, three-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

“Our vision would see all prisons in the area with a college presence facilitated by Cornell University,” said Vice Provost Judith Appleton, who prepared the proposal to the Mellon Foundation with CPEP Director Rob Scott.

Working with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, the program currently offers humanities and liberal arts courses to qualified incarcerated students at the Auburn and Cayuga correctional facilities. Sixty Cornell faculty members, graduate students and undergraduates are serving as instructors and teaching assistants this semester alone. Graduate instructors receive a stipend, and the program provides all course materials for incarcerated students.

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