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Events
Inside Out Speaker Series: Spring 2024
, assistant professor of Spanish and Linguistics, will talk about his work with bilingual communities and his own experience as a first-generation college graduate.
Native American writer and poet will read excerpts from his collection of poems.
Isaac Joel Torres will present and discuss his photography, including portraits from Stateville Correctional Center and other documentary work.
will present chamber music to guests at ERDCC
will host a chess tournament at ERDCC. Before the tournament, a grandmaster will give a tutorial on the latest strategies and techniques of the game. Participants will then test their skills by competing against each other.
Summer 2024 Courses
Math 0260 Intermediate Algebra
Review of the real number system; linear equations, and inequalities in one and two variables; functions; systems of linear equations; exponents, polynomials and polynomial functions; factoring; rational expressions and functions; roots, radicals and root functions; quadratic equations, inequalities and functions.
Philosophy 2050 Ethics
This course undertakes a systematic analysis of fundamental problems and issues involved in questioning whether and how moral discourse can be rationally grounded; the utilitarian-deontological debate; questions concerning different levels of moral discourse; competing notions of justice and the relationship between morality and religion.
News
Higher Education in Prison
The 性奴调教 Prison Education Program will participate in the : Creation of a Hope-filled Future, an historic gathering to be held at Loyola University Chicago from July 16-19, 2024. This new assembly is an outgrowth of the Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference that has convened every three to four years since 2000.
Follow Basia's journey from incarceration to doctoral studies in business administration focusing on supply chain management and food insecurity at the University of Missouri鈥揝t. Louis (UMSL) and Business Journals Top 40 Under 40.
Raymond Haug was caught in a cycle of addiction, homelessness and prison. With the help of scholarships and a campus community, he transformed his life and found a calling in mechanical engineering.
Voices of Incarcerated People
The located in the Eastern Reception Diagnostic and Correction Center was featured in the latest edition of The Prison Journalism Project (PJP) newsletter. PJP seeks to empower marginalized communities by bringing transparency to the world of mass incarceration through journalism.
This project invites formerly incarcerated people to tell their stories and, through storytelling and community dialogue, engages the public in conversation about the role we can all play in welcoming returning citizens into our communities.
Colorado Prison Radio beams music, stories, news and entertainment into prisons across Colorado and broadcasts its sounds to listeners outside facilities as well, across the U.S. and beyond.
: The Legal Aid Justice Center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.