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Second
Chances for Smarter Choices: Prison Education at San Quentin
The Prisoner University Project at San Quentin State
Prison gives inmates a second chance to improve their lives by
providing access to higher education within prison walls. The College Program at San Quentin is an extension
of Patten
University, a private liberal arts college in Patten, California,
and offers approximately 12 college courses each semester in addition to
intensive college preparatory classes. Since its 1996 inception, 68 men
have completed their associate of arts degree at San Quentin;
approximately 200 are currently enrolled, with more enrolling in other
colleges after being paroled. Students may also take electives to
qualify for transfer to the University of California and California
State University systems. The program hopes to serve as a model for
those interested in starting similar programs at other prisons.
For further CenterPoint coverage of prison education,
visit our online
archives.
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Business Bootcamp: Crash
Tutorial for Entrepreneurial Veterans
Veterans with disabilities represent one of the most successful groups
of small business entrepreneurs, according to the Small Business
Administration. In the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans (EBV) at Syracuse University's
Whitman School of Management, disabled veterans who served in the
Afghanistan and Iraq wars get the chance to jumpstart a new career in
entrepreneurship and small business management. Offering an alternative
format, EBV blends a 20-day online course with an eight-day bootcamp
residency, provides mentoring and follow up support for its graduates,
and covers the cost of tuition and travel to and from the site. Members
of the first graduating class started six new businesses and continued
in undergraduate and graduate programs.
With the program's success at Syracuse University (SU), EBV has grown
to a consortium of four business schools, serving approximately 100
student veterans throughout the country. In addition to SU, the
consortium includes Florida State University's College of Business, UCLA's Anderson
School of Management, and the Mays Business School at Texas A&M
University.
To learn more about veteran-friendly programs in higher education,
visit ACE's First
Stop, an online source for promising practices and policies,
current research and reports, and lifelong learning resources.
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