Campbell University recently issued the following announcement.
From unusual sports seasons to new initiatives in rural leadership, 2021 will certainly go down as another memorable year for Campbell University. Students, faculty and staff took bold risks to help others, used their gifts to aid their communities and adjusted to “new normal” on campus. The following is our pick of the top stories to emerge from the year (in no particular order). Wishing you a wonderful start to 2022.
Campbell’s prison teaching initiative graduates first class, paves the way for future programs
Campbell University’s prison teaching initiative launched as a joint effort by the University, the Bob Barker Foundation and the North Carolina Department of Public Safety in 2019. The state chose Sampson County for the two-year program — an associate degree in behavioral sciences curriculum designed to provide general education and foundational study in psychology, sociology and social work.
“When I realized this was real and that my teachers were going to hold me accountable, it was exciting. Like, it’s on me whether I pass or fail,” graduate Wesley Lee says. “I’m from a small town, and where I grew up, you either go work on cars or go work on a farm. Before this, I never really saw myself as a college student. But now I’ve been introduced to liberal arts, and it just gives you this broader view of things. It directs you on a path to something in life you might like to do.
The Campbell program is modeled after the highly ambitious, highly successful Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison program founded in 1998 at the notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. Run today by a staff of formerly incarcerated men and women, Hudson Link not only provides an education to its students, but life skills and reentry support as well. The result is lowered recidivism (less than 2 percent of students in the program return to prison) and higher rates of employment, community regeneration and reciprocity.
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