Prison Teaching Matters
Issue 35: November 23, 2020
Letter from the Editor
Happy Monday, friends!
Apologies for the lateness of this newsletter, but I hope you’ll find the information here useful. As always, if you want to submit an item for the next newsletter, which comes out on Fridays (most of the time), please shoot me an email at tronda@princeton.edu. There will be no newsletter this Friday because PTI will be taking a couple days off, but I’m happy to consider materials for the following week, which will be (gulp!) December 4!
BTW, how did we get to almost-December already? Is it me, or does time seem to be simultaneously slowing down and speeding up? I think perhaps the CDC should consider COVID’s effects on our perception of time…
Anyway, a happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate it, and as always, PTI is unbelievably grateful for the hard work of its students, volunteers, and supporters!
Thanks for checking us out!
~ Tara R.
Events, Calls, Jobs, & Other Resources
Screening & Discussion: Community Dialog: With This Knowledge (Mt. Tamalpais College [formerly Prison University Project @ San Quentin]), 12/1/2020 @ 6:30-7:45pm
Junior Fellowship in the SUSTech Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts (Location: Southern University of Science & Tech, China) (Apps accepted beginning 11/15/2020)
For Our Formerly Incarcerated Colleagues Only
Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network
Open Position: Director of Communications, Prisons & Justice Initiative @ Georgetown College (No deadline specified, so ASAP!)
Open Position: Technology Coordinator, Prisons & Justice Initiative @ Georgetown College (No deadline specified, so ASAP!)
For All Your Info-Gathering Senses
Article: How do you retain community-college students? Jill Biden has a dissertation for that (Vimal Patel, Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/16/2020)
Article: Plummeting community-college enrollments: Inside the numbers (Audrey Williams June, Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/16/2020)
Blogcast: An interview with Sarah Kith, diversity and inclusion adviser of the Library of Congress (Jessica Gilmour, Proliteracy, 11/13/2020)
Podcast: Driving the Green Book (Macmillan Publishers)
Report: First class: Starting a postsecondary education program in prison (Brian Walsh & Ruth Delaney, Vera Institute, Nov. 2020)
Who We Are
Jill Stockwell, Director | jfstockw@princeton.edu
Tara Ronda, Program Coordinator | tronda@princeton.edu
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