EJP Member Announcements

March 3, 2025

Boxes have arrived of A New Path, EJP's guide for those facing deportation. It's just in time, as we've received requests for more than 4,000 copies of the guide since the new administration was voted into office.

Are you trying to get in contact with another EJP member? The Spring 2025 EJP Directory will be released soon! In the meantime, you can try to find them in the Fall Directory.

EJP Fall 2025 Directory

RSVP for Big 10 CHEP Dinner

EJP is hosting the first-ever in person convening of the Big 10 Coalition for Higher Education in Prison!

We hope EJP members and friends can join us for dinner at Rebecca's house on Saturday, March 22 at 7pm. Families welcome.

We also need help transporting participants.

Please RSVP by Friday March 14.

RSVP:

https://educationjustice.jotform.com/build/250488214775868

Public Speaking Workshop w/ Marianna Swallow

Our next public speaking workshop is titled, "Group Coaching/Feedback" Join Marianna Swallow, Chicago-based coach, for this workshop.

Monday, March 3, 4-5pm Central, via zoom.

All EJP members are welcome to attend this one-hour workshop. Even if you don't anticipate speaking about EJP, we hope you'll take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to polish your speaking skills!

If you missed previous workshops, you can watch recordings online here - enter the password: Only4ejp!

RSVP:

https://educationjustice.jotform.com/250260072775858

EJP 101

Are you new to EJP?

"EJP 101" is a 90-minute introduction to the Education Justice Project held on Zoom and facilitated by a rotating roster of EJP leaders. We respectfully require all EJP members to attend EJP 101 upon joining EJP.

The next EJP 101 will be held this Thursday, Feb. 27, from 3 - 4:30pm Central via Zoom. The last EJP 101 scheduled for spring 2025 will be held on Monday April 7.

You are welcome to attend as many as you wish!

If you have questions or concerns, or need accommodations to fully participate, please reach out to info@educationjustice.net.

Zoom link:

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89291441422?pwd=L0ZRUkNIRUxWZlFHbngxUjc0elRHQT09

RSVP for the Feb or April EJP 101:

https://educationjustice.jotform.com/223477812539161

Update: EJP Becoming a Center

We hold monthly meetings on the progress we're making on institutionalizing EJP on campus. It's been a long process, and we want to make sure you stay informed along the way!

Our January meeting included the news that EJP is going to stay in the College of Education, and work closely with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on select program areas. For more on that, and the progress towards actually becoming a campus center, join us via zoom:

Thursday March 13

10-11pm Central

Please come with your questions, or just to listen and learn to what it means for EJP to become an official unit of the University of Illinois. Please RSVP if possible.

All Meetings are held via Zoom:

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89291441422?pwd=L0ZRUkNIRUxWZlFHbngxUjc0elRHQT09

RSVP:

https://educationjustice.jotform.com/242398299808172

Discussions With EJP Alumni

At the center of the "EJP universe" are our students at Danville Correctional Center. Over the years, some 500 students have passed through our classes. Many have been released and participate in EJP activities. Join us for upcoming discussions to learn what it's like to be an EJP student and about the experience of incarceration.

These events are for incoming EJP members involved in our college-in-prison program, but others are also welcome to come and learn.

The next discussion is Tuesday, March 25, 5-6pm Central

Future meetings:

Wednesday, April 30, 5-6pm Central

Monday, June 2, 5-6pm Central

All meetings are held via Zoom:

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89291441422?pwd=L0ZRUkNIRUxWZlFHbngxUjc0elRHQT09

2024-25 EJP Handbook Is Out!

The all new 2024-25 EJP Handbook is now available. We require all EJP members to read the current handbook annually and indicate their understanding and acceptance of our policies by signing this Jotform:

https://educationjustice.jotform.com/220805296881058

The handbook will orient you to the wide EJP "universe" and familiarize you with our new initiatives. From the Introduction:

"At the time we were founded, EJP was the only prison education program offering for-credit classes from a publicly funded university in Illinois. Today, there are more than a dozen higher education programs in Illinois .... We would like to think that EJP has contributed to the growing number of educational opportunities in prison and helped to change the public perception of those impacted by incarceration."

You can read the EJP Handbook online.

If you have not yet completed it, please make this a priority!

Thank you!

Open EJP Positions

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

Assistant for Deportation Guide Research

CAVE Coordinator

Computer Lab Co-Coordinator

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The mission of the Education Justice project is to create a model college-in-prison program that demonstrates the positive impacts of higher education upon incarcerated people, their families, the neighborhoods from which they come, the host institution, and society as a whole.