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New Education and Research Initiatives

Prison Education Project Offers Students, Faculty New Learning Experiences

Modeled after Inside-Out, a nationwide prison education program, the CMU Prison Education

offered two courses: “Psychology and Society,”

taught by Kody Manke-Miller, assistant teaching Project (CMU PEP) offers courses that are taught professor in the Psychology Department, and once a week inside a local prison and are made “Russian History: Game of Thrones,” taught by up of half non-incarcerated (“outside”) students Wendy Goldman, the Paul Mellon Distinguished and half incarcerated (“inside”) students. During Professor of History. In fall 2023, Jeffrey Williams, the program, CMU students learn alongside professor of English and Literary and Cultural the students who are incarcerated, rather Studies, taught “Major Fiction Then and Now: than teach or tutor. In spring 2023, the program Imagining the World.”

Dietrich College Faculty Who Taught CMU PEP Courses in 2023

Kody Manke-Miller, assistant teaching professor, Department of Psychology

Wendy Goldman, the Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History, Department of History

Jeffrey Williams, professor, Department of English

View a short video that highlights the CMU PEP program.

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