CiP News & Events
CiP News
- EMU College in Prison students present at Undergraduate Symposium; The Eastern Echo; April 2025
- Eastern Michigan University gives incarcerated students platform to present research projects; Channel 4 News Detroit; March 2025
- Eastern Michigan University breaks new ground with incarcerated students joining annual research symposium; Hoodline; March 2025
- Eastern Michigan University's College in Prison Program partners with Writing Center to expand support for incarcerated students; EMU Today; April 2024
- EMU launches first-ever bachelor's degree program for Michigan's only women's prison; Concentrate Media; September 2023
- WEMU 89.1 Interview: EMU's College in Prison Program provides first step and a second chance; September 2023
- CBS News Detroit: EMU offering college-level courses to inmates; August 2023
- EMU Today TV Special Edition: August 2023
- EMU appoints new director for bachelor program benefitting incarcerated people this fall; EMU Today; July 2023
CiP Events
COMING SOON: The 1st Annual CiP Business Pitch Competition (June 7, 2025)
45th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium (March 28, 2025)
11 College in Prison Students and 1 Returning Citizens Fellow (former CiP student!) presented at EMU's 45th Undergraduate Research Symposium! This marks the first time that incarcerated student voices could be shared in this space! The student's presentations were recorded inside Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility and shown during the main Symposium event. For more exciting information about this event, please check out these articles from local news sources!
Detroit Channel 4 News - EMU Gives Platform for Incarcerated Students to Present Research Projects
Eastern Echo - EMU College in Prison Students Present at Undergraduate Research Symposium
Check Out the CiP Student Video Projects!
- Angela Fisher - Alignment: Improvisation & Yoga, A Demonstration
- Quiana Lovett - Start with the Locker not the Living Room: Living & Thriving Within Limits
- Jacara Moore - Calling All Caregivers
- Morgan Rowley - Introducing Improvisation into Orientation for College in Prison Students
- Mercedes Kemp - Seeing the Word "April": Exploring the Possibilities of Erasure Poetry
- Amber Martens - Using Erasure to Express the Self: "Transcript: An Apology"
- Ashleigh Smith - Experiements in Poetry: Finding Beauty Inside
- Lorie Stuer - "My Absence": A Poem About Existence
- Brandi Wentworth - "The Boom Box of 1988"
- Shirikiana Draper - The Table is Big Enough: Bridging the Ever-Widening Gap Between the "Haves" and "Have-Nots"
- Megan Green - Helping Students Dream Again: A Dismantlement of the School-to-Prison Pipeline