This is so exciting! This is the kind of change that heals people from the inside out! This is how you go to the root of self-destruction and repeating cycles of abuse and dysfunction. Teach people their worth! I can’t imagine a better way to do that - on the INSIDE - than to restructure someone’s core beliefs of their value with an opportunity like this! This is so powerful! #realchange #workwithpurpose #makeanimpactthatmatters
Every Friday during the spring 2023 semester, 15 students from Carnegie Mellon University piled into a van to make the 70-mile trip to the State Correctional Institute at Somerset, a Pennsylvania state penitentiary. Accompanied by Wendy Goldman, the Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History, and Kody Manke-Miller, an assistant teaching professor in the Psychology Department, these students took the first courses offered through the CMU Prison Education Project (CMU PEP). Modeled after the nationwide prison education program Inside-Out, CMU PEP courses are taught once a week inside a local prison and are made up of half non-incarcerated (“outside”) students and half incarcerated (“inside”) students. Rather than teach or tutor, CMU students are there to learn alongside the students who are incarcerated. Carnegie Mellon students register through normal channels and fill out a short questionnaire, which the professors use to determine eligibility. Once registered, both inside and outside students follow a regular CMU curriculum and receive full credit for their coursework. https://lnkd.in/eYb_2TUR
