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The Alliance for Higher Education in Prison builds and supports the field-wide infrastructure to advance access and excellence in higher education in prison and through reentry. We do this by convening the field, amplifying system-impacted voices, and mobilizing knowledge and resources.
We envision a world in which all people, including those in prison, have access to quality higher education, creating a more just and equitable world.
We believe that knowledge opens our minds to what is possible and equips us with the tools to reimagine justice and our collective future.
We believe everyone—including those who are currently or formerly incarcerated—should have access to high-quality education.
Acknowledging the foundational expertise that comes with lived experience, we work to ensure that currently and formerly incarcerated people play an integral role in shaping the future of higher education in prison.
Rooted in our understanding that transformative and lasting change emerges through shared leadership, we actively cultivate relationships across differences, facilitate open dialogue, and forge intentional partnerships.
We recognize the inherent worth of all people. We strive to challenge systems that limit human potential and to remain accountable to the communities we serve.
The Alliance bridges diverse communities and perspectives—amplifying system-impacted voices, supporting practitioners, partnering with researchers, and advancing policy and practice.
The following goals and strategies build on these competencies and respond to the opportunities and pressures facing the field. They are intended to ensure that we lead with clarity, focus, and purpose in the coming years while remaining nimble and agile in service to the field as a whole.
As the field expands and matures, bolster our capacity to onboard programs and practitioners, build community and networks, deepen engagement, foster peer-to-peer learning, and further our collective knowledge.
Leverage our deep relationships and unique vantage point on the field to identify emergent needs, advance governmental and institutional policies that materially improve conditions for currently and formerly incarcerated learners and HEP and reentry practitioners, and communicate the impacts of policy shifts to the field as a whole.
Through ongoing dialogue with the field, identify innovative strategies that advance quality education and reentry experiences for currently and formerly incarcerated students and create pathways to refine and propagate these strategies.
Past projects of the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison:
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