Can I get a "Pell" Yes!
The year Congress lifted the ban on Pell grants for people in prison.
What is 2020?
The NYC-headquartered nonprofit that served as the national technical assistance provider for the Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative.
What is the Vera Institute of Justice?
The type of entity that oversees the process for colleges to add a prison campus as an additional location of the college—the step that precedes submitting a complete PEP application to the US Department of Education.
What is a college accreditor?
What the "L" in CELA stands for.
What is leadership?
Also known as the "Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act," this resulted in the banning of Pell Grants for people in prison.
What is the 1994 Crime Bill?
The number of times the Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative was expanded before the ban on Pell grants for incarcerated people was lifted.
What is two?
The part of the PEP approval process that refers to when oversight entities assess colleges' and universities' ability to serve students in prison based on a series of mandatory and optional criteria.
What is the best interest of students determination (or review)?
The Vera tool developed in collaboration with the 2023 Corrections Education Leadership Academy that provides guidance for corrections agencies on their role in implementing reinstated Pell in correctional facilities.
What is the Prison Education Program (PEP) Toolkit?
The two factors that do not interfere with an incarcerated student's eligibility for Pell grant under the FAFSA Simplification Act.
What are conviction types and sentence lengths?
The number of students that have participated in postsecondary education funded through Second Chance Pell between 2016 and 2022.
What is more than 40,000?
The email address that connects you to the US Department of Education for questions related to the regulations governing Pell reinstatement.
What is pep@ed.gov?
These three organizations will serve as the Corrections Education Leadership Academy's new partners.
What are the Correctional Education Association (CEA), Jobs for the Future (JFF) and Alliance for Higher Education in Prison (AHEP)?
The coastal college that is the first in the nation to be approved to implement a PEP under reinstated Pell.
What is Cal Poly Humboldt?
The number of credentials earned by students in the Second Chance Pell experiment.
What is nearly 12,000?
Two data points that departments of corrections must provide their college partners to help ensure student success and continued education support.
What are transfer and release dates?
The former Veran who helped create and lead the first cohort of the Corrections Education Leadership Academy
Who is Brian Walsh?
The Rhode Island senator—last name Pell—and chief sponsor of the legislation that created what is now known as the federal Pell Grant program.
Who is Claiborne Pell?
For colleges in the Second Chance Pell Revised Experiment, the first important milestone in the process to becoming a PEP (Hint: a date).
What is June 30,2024?
In addition to comparable experience of faculty, comparable transferability of credits, and the ability for students to continue their education at any location of the college-post release, the metrics that serves as the fourth mandatory outcome indicator in the best interest of students determination.
What is comparable academic and career advising?
The state with the most representation in CELA 2023 (and most unduplicated Second Chance Pell students).
What is Texas?