As of Sunday afternoon, Danville is still on lockdown. The water situation may be resolved by the time you read this. If you're scheduled to go out to the prison and have any doubts, call the prison directly at 217.446.0441. You can ask the officer who answers the phone if the prison is still on lockdown.

Hopefully you will have received direct instruction if you're on the schedule, but we're providing this information just in case.

EJP student Ron Palm is planning to take the Law School Admissions test on Friday Feb 9!

We need to identify a proctor who can oversee the admission of the test at Danville Correctional Center. No experience required!

The test usually takes 90 minutes, but Ron will be given as much time as he requests, hence we're looking for someone available on Feb 9 from 8:45 am - 11am.

Interested in being part of history? Please contact info@educationjustice.net if you're available to proctor Ron. Thanks!

The Humanities Research Institute is hosting a Graduate Open House and Resource Fair on Friday February 16 from 2 - 5pm. It's a great opportunity to let graduate students and others on campus know about EJP opportunities. At 300 Levis Center (on W. Illinois St in Urbana).

It would be ideal for two to four graduate students to share the time between them. Please let us know ASAP if you're available!

Please indicate your availability here.

We're looking for EJP members who can serve on an interview panel for our open community librarian position. No experience required, with either interviewing or with our community library at Danville, though if you have such experience we encourage you to participate.

What's involved? Members of the interview panel will meet together directly before the interview to discuss questions and meet after the interview to discuss how it went

This is a key position for EJP and we hope that members will be interested to support this key hire by offering to help interview the candidates. Thank you!

Volunteer for library interview

We expect to do a lot of hiring in the coming weeks. If you'd like to find out what's involved, come to one of our info sessions! It takes only 30 minutes and will answer all your questions about participating in EJP search committees and interviews!

Date and time to be determined.

And if you already know that you're interested in serving on either the For-Credit Course Coordinator search committee (it's becoming a full-time position) or the On-Site Coordinator position, please indicate on the form.

Sign up here

We're hosting two online EJP info sessions this spring for individuals who want to learn more about applying to EJP and what opportunities exist.

It's always helpful to have current members at these sessions!

Are you available? Whether you're a long-time EJP member or someone new, it would be great to have you on the zoom.

Wed Jan 24, 5 - 6pm - this week

Tues Feb 20, 4 - 5pm

Please indicate your availability here.

Calling all Directors, Coordinators, Managers, and others who leads teams within EJP! 

Gone are the days of searching for a single spreadsheet amongst seemingly hundreds of EJP spreadsheets! This semester we are launching Notion, a platform designed to house member data, clearance data, and more all in one place.

Please join us for a training so you can learn how to use this new platform. Vabhavi, one of our wonderful Data Stewards, will be leading this project and these trainings. Our sincerest thanks to her!

Topic: Notion Training - Tuesday Jan 30

Time: Jan 30, 2024, 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89856891606?pwd=MTR4enpiN1dQUldBWkpZNjNmME1TZz09

Meeting ID: 898 5689 1606

Password: 800098

Topic: Notion Training - Friday Feb 9

Time: Feb 9, 2024, 05:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83413182551?pwd=bGRKc3FKQzE2NG9NaStUclpMSGsyUT09

Meeting ID: 834 1318 2551

• Password: 632965

EJP students selected mental health as the topic for this year's critical conversation. They believe it's important for everyone involved with EJP to have the opportunity to think about and discuss this topic, especially in relation to incarceration.

The first critical conversation of the semester is next month:

Thursday Feb 29, 2024

Participants should plan to attend the full 90 minute meeting and actively participate to fulfill this requirement. (Members are required to attend either a critical conversation or an EJP retreat each year. The next retreat will be Saturday March 30.)

If you have any questions, concerns or need any accommodations to fully participate, please feel free to reach out to our DEI Coordinator, Julia, at dei@educationjustice.net or juliaspielmann0@gmail.com.

Register for Critical Conversation

(The short, required readings are available on the RSVP site. Since that is currently down, links to the readings are provided below.)

• Definition of mental health
• Introduction to terms and concepts
• from National Alliance on Mental Health
• "No one wants to talk about mental health"
• Mental Health and Incarceration

EJP conducts a DEI survey every two years to assess the climate within our organization and direct any needed changes.

If you missed the meeting about the 2022 survey results, you can watch the recording, below. There will be another report-out meeting on February 15 at noon via zoom.

Access survey results

We're currently accepting applications for the following part-time positions:

Events & Communications Assistant - New!

EJP-York Program Assistant - New!

Data Stewardship Team - New!



CAVE Co-Coordinator

Computer Lab Co-Coordinator

The following are full-time or nearly full-time positions:

EJP - York Program Coordinator

We'd love to help you celebrate your birthday by sending you a little something during your birthday month. It's another way of saying thank you for being part of EJP.

We invite all members of EJP to tell us your birthday month, whatever your role and wherever you're based.

It only takes one minute to complete the form. Thank you!

Tell us your birthday month

Please use the form below to share any announcements you want us to include in upcoming Member Notices.

Announcement Request Form