Cornell University recently received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from Ascendium Education Group to create a higher education in prison research hub through its Cornell Prison Education Program. Rob Scott, an adjunct faculty member at Cornell University, is the Rob Scott, the Groos Family Director of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP).
The initiative will create the Partnership for Advancement of Prison Education Research (PAPER) and an advanced data management tool, the Education Justice Tracker, to help higher education prison programs across the country better manage information about students' incarceration and parole status.
Through these efforts, they hope to create a consortium of institutions dedicated to researching the best areas of future study, completion rates for educational programs, how education affects workforce development after release, and issues related to recidivism.
“I’d like to see us contributing to a culture of research-informed progress for higher education in prison,” said Rob Scott, the Groos Family Director of CPEP. “Higher education is one of, if not the, major mode of reform that America is trying in prison. Thousands and thousands of people in prisons are being offered a pathway to college. It just beckons us to really pay attention to all the complexity that’s in there.”
Rob Scott, an adjunct faculty member at Cornell University, is the Rob Scott, the Groos Family Director of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP).
Rob Scott, an adjunct faculty member at Cornell University, is the Rob Scott, the Groos Family Director of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP).
