June 8, 2026
Last Friday, the Cornell Prison Education Program in partnership with the Cornell Library hosted a Cornell Reunion event in Uris Library. The panel discussion: “A Cornell Degree in Prison: Leveraging …
June 4, 2026
CPEP had been awarded a $1.5M grant from Ascendium Education Group (see Cornell Chronicle). Building on an earlier award from Ascendium, this new grant will extend and expand our project of improving higher education …
June 4, 2026
After a full semester of research and practice, the Debate Club at Cayuga Correctional Facility took on members of Cornell’s Speech and Debate Society at the prison. The topic for this debate …
May 5, 2026
Earlier this month, CPEP staff presented at the two-day symposium Labor, Discipline, and the Carceral State, hosted by Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Executive Director Rob Scott spoke …
May 2, 2026
Keri Blakinger ’14 returned to campus in April as a Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist. Blakinger is a formerly incarcerated Cornell alumna and investigative journalist whose work has been nominated for both a …
May 1, 2026
In response to requests from our students in Auburn’s Writer’s Workshop for more opportunities to publish their work more broadly, we invited David Nutt, a staff writer focused on physical …
April 10, 2026
An afternoon slot on the final day of a conference is rarely ideal for attendance—but that wasn’t the case for our Data-Driven Academic Reentry session. The room was packed, with …
April 8, 2026
On April 8, 2026, there were two other pre-conference events that ran simultaneous with our HEP Research Symposium: one was a nationwide reentry roundtable featuring CPEP Academic Reentry Director Sarah Cushman, …
