Outreach and Engagement

The Community Partnership Award recognizes a partnership that produces positive impact in the community and at Ohio State. OPEEP will receive $1000 toward its budget to provide higher education programming in several central Ohio adult prison facilities.

"OPEEPs efforts to expand prison-based education across OSUs multiple campuses include many activities underway and planned in the near future. They are working to expand the range of inside-out and prison-based curricular offerings across the Arts and Sciences. In May 2021, they offered an inside-out instructor training exclusively for OSU faculty and teaching staff. The project will enrich OSU student learning opportunities to include social justice-oriented courses. They also work with incarcerated students to support their higher education goals, and their plans include a regional collaboration with other central Ohio colleges and universities to expand programming and degree-completion for incarcerated students and returned citizens."