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Higher Education Access and Parity: The Emerson Prison Initiative's Bachelor of Arts Program

Higher Education Access and Parity: The Emerson Prison Initiative's Bachelor of Arts Program

Mneesha Gellman
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781799830566|ISBN10: 179983056X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799854135|EISBN13: 9781799830573
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3056-6.ch003
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Gellman, Mneesha. "Higher Education Access and Parity: The Emerson Prison Initiative's Bachelor of Arts Program." Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls, edited by Dani V. McMay and Rebekah D. Kimble, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 47-66. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3056-6.ch003

APA

Gellman, M. (2020). Higher Education Access and Parity: The Emerson Prison Initiative's Bachelor of Arts Program. In D. McMay & R. Kimble (Eds.), Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls (pp. 47-66). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3056-6.ch003

Chicago

Gellman, Mneesha. "Higher Education Access and Parity: The Emerson Prison Initiative's Bachelor of Arts Program." In Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls, edited by Dani V. McMay and Rebekah D. Kimble, 47-66. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3056-6.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter presents the educational intervention of the Emerson Prison Initiative, which offers a pathway to a Bachelor of Arts in Media, Literature, and Culture to incarcerated students at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord. A program of Emerson College, the Emerson Prison Initiative serves Emerson's mission to increase educational access for historically marginalized students, including those in prison, and maintains rigorous standards for academic excellence for students and faculty comparable to those at Emerson's Boston-based campus. The Emerson Prison Initiative is rooted in the notion that access to a college education can help transform how people engage in the world.

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