Academic Coordinator Mary Donnelly, Alumni Coordinator Todd Young, and Program Director Dr. Samuel Arroyo helped Sullivan's Education Supervisor set up and install the new machines. The lab will undergo a test run by the Hudson Link Student Advisory Committee before it is officially opened to the larger student population.

Thanks to the staff at Sullivan C.F. and to our Student Advisory Committee for making the installation a success!

The Institute for Higher Education Policy announced this month its new social media and public awareness campaign #CollegeNotPrison, an initiative designed to educate policymakers, campus leaders, and the public about the barriers faced by justice-involved youth who wish to pursue higher education. 

"Higher education is a proven stepping stone for people to ascend from the confines of poverty to the economic security of the middle class," said President Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper in an IHEP press release on the campaign. "Justice-involved men and women are no different."

#CollegeNotPrison is the latest in a long tradition of work IHEP has done on postsecondary education for currently and formerly incarcerated people. For more information on this exciting project, visit their website.