Fall 2018 Newsletter

Letter From the Director - We're Growing!

The 2018-2019 academic year stands to be a busy and exciting one for UPEP as we build off of the momentum from our first year of on-site programming. Our students are stretching their boundaries in the classroom and we’re making strides to formally expand the organization, too. Dr. Cindy Fierros, Lecturer for the Department of Gender Studies, began her role as Co-Director this fall and Sarah Manley, who works for the Disability Law Center, took on the dynamic role of Program Coordinator. We’ve created additional undergraduate internships to support students and faculty at the prison and will be hosting our first series of events on campus to promote dialogue about transformative justice and the role of higher education in prison.

This summer our students took Introduction to Microbiology in Timpanogos and Creative Writing in Wasatch, the latter supported by a grant from the Utah Humanities Council. This semester our students are taking BIOL 2325 Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology in Timpanogos and ANTH 1010 Cultural Anthropology in Wasatch. The students continue to develop student advisory councils in each prison and we are slowly building up our libraries.

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