This Spring, we offered 6 different courses at 3 institutions, serving over 75 inside students.

Courses offered this term include:

CHN 410/510 / A Reading and Discussion of the Great Imaginative Buddhist Novel Journey to the West (Xiyou ji) / Professor Stephen Durrant

GEOG 410 / Geography of the Mexican-American Borderland / Scott Warren 

MATH 106 / University Math / Craig Tingey 

PPPM 410: End-of-Life Care in the United States

PSY 510: Evolutionary Psychology: Theories, Findings, and Future Possibilities / Holly Arrow

PSY 410 / Psychological Perspectives on Self and Identity / Inga Schowengerdt

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Today is Ducks Give – a day when alumni and friends of the UO come together to raise funds to support programs across campus – and the UO Prison Education Program is participating – what an opportunity!

This spring we’re proud to be celebrating 15 years! What have we done during that time?

Our work changes lives. We hope you will support us as we expand, deepen, and innovate our programs. Help us continue to grow with a gift to the Prison Education Program today.

Several donors have already pledged challenge gifts, which will be unlocked as we get more donors to participate during Ducks Give. Share this email with your network and encourage them to do the same, then watch the page for updates in real time, as we grow our family of supporters and release more funding. Together, we will empower individuals to learn, lead, and contribute to the community through the Prison Education Program.

Thank you!

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Thank you to our beautiful community for all the feedback on PEP’s art show in collaboration with UO Visual Arts!

We have compiled all the feedback received and sent personalized packets to all the artists. We are so grateful for their contributions and are glad we are able to share these photos and feedback with them!

Click here to view Resonance: Art from Inside

The UO Prison Education Program is celebrating the 15-year anniversary of the initial cohort of Inside-Out classes. Since 2007, the program has expanded to offer classes, not-for-credit opportunities, and works to advance educational access for people who are incarcerated statewide.

Join the Prison Education Program faculty, alumni, and friends for an informal, open-house reception at the Ford Alumni Center on Thursday, May 5, from 6:00–7:30 p.m.

The event will feature speakers from the program, spoken word performance, and a silent auction of artwork created by incarcerated or formerly incarcerated artists.

You can expect a light, casual event and we hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to meet new friends and learn about the latest developments in the program.

This term, the University of Oregon Prison Education Program has continued to work to provide our students with the opportunity to take classes amidst COVID-19 lockdowns. Throughout the winter term students have had the opportunity to take

• GEOG 410/510: Geography of the US/Mexico Borderlands – Taught by Scott Warren
• CHN 410/410: Contemporary Chinese Literature: Reading and Study of Mo Yan’s Novel Life and Death are Wearing Me Out – Taught by Stephen Durrant
• PSY 407/507: Psychological Perspectives on Self and Identity – Taught by Inga Schowengerdt
• PS 275: Legal Process – Taught by Alison Gash
• GEOG 410: Borderland Identities (Taught in Spanish) – Taught by Belén Noroña
• CLAS 301: Greek and Roman Epics – Taught by Mary Jaeger
• SOC 410/510: Race, Gender, and Poverty in the United States – Taught by Ellen Scott

While these courses were all conducted remotely in order to comply with Department of Corrections’ regulations, they have offered the opportunity to take classes in four prisons across the state of Oregon to 94 students.

Moving into spring term, we are planning the first in-person class in over two years, and we are hopeful that this trend will continue into the fall term of 2022.

With every book donation, we encourage institutions to reach out to us with specific requests for their respective libraries. We recently got a request from Coffee Creek Correctional Institution, the only women’s prison in Oregon, to help their newly formed LGBTQ group build a resource library.

If you are able, please take a look at the following wishlists and help us support women and youth through book donations.

UO Prison Education Program will be hosting its second art exhibit on campus. Resonance will feature art from over 20 artists who have experienced incarceration.

Resonance is a creative exhibition of the visual artwork created by over twenty artists who are incarcerated in prisons across the state of Oregon. In recognition of the remarkable talents of these artists, the University of Oregon Prison Education Program and the EMU Center for Student Involvement’s Visual Arts Team have worked in conjunction to exhibit their work to the outside world.

Resonance will be on display in the EMU Adell McMillan Gallery January 3rd-February 4th with a closing reception on February 3rd.