Recent CPEP Articles
Prison Education Program at HWS
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Fisher Center hosted members of the Cornell Prison Education Program as a part of the year-long dialogue on imprisonment and its many forms. http://www.hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=14266
Five Auburn Correctional Facility inmates reach for salvation on the stage (AuburnPub: May 6, 2011)
“The stories were moving, and those listening were moved. It could have been a theater group anywhere, but the matching green pants and robust security gave away the setting: Auburn Correctional Facility, where the five performers are all doing time.” http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/article_77b304b0-775d-11e0-b9f4-001cc4c002e0.html
Related Video Auburn Inmates Perform
“Five inmates at the Auburn Correctional Facility perform personal stories to a crowd of Cornell University students and professor who worked with the inmates through educational projects.”
Behind bars, a thirst for words (Ithaca Journal: April '11)
"Pete Wetherbee claims he was sitting at his desk and felt an urge to do something useful. He called the Auburn Prison and began tutoring incarcerated students studying for their high school equivalency exam in the summer of 1994." Behind bars, a thirst for words
Keys to a Castle (New York Times April ‘11)
"The last six years of the robbery sentence were spent at the mild-by-comparison Auburn Correctional Facility, where he enrolled in psychology, engineering and creative writing courses offered by Cornell University." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/nyregion/03super.html?pagewanted=1
Cornell students on both sides of the bars (Ithaca Journal Feb. '11)
"Many Cornell University students grow up, attend Cornell, graduate and launch successful, productive lives without ever meeting an incarcerated person, or stepping foot in a prison." http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011102260304
CU recognized as "institution of community engagement" (Carnegie Community Jan '11)
Cornell University's New York State's land-grant university has received the nation's top recognition for community-related activities from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan11/CarnegieCommunity.html
CU Program offers Hope to Prisoners (Tompkins Weekly Jan '11)
"The Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) enables students to remain positive and sane in a dehumanizing environment." CU Program offers Hope to Prisoners