August 2024

Letter from the Directors

Greetings and welcome to the 2024-25 academic year! We had a wonderfully busy summer and are happy to take a moment to reflect on last year’s activities and share some of our projects for the…

OPEEP launches degree program at the Ohio Reformatory for Women

OPEEP is thrilled to begin our first semester with our new embedded degree student cohort located in The Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) in Marysville, Ohio! Twenty degree students began earning…

May 2024 Instructor Training

In May 2024, OPEEP staff and learning community members hosted our second instructor training which prepared twelve new faculty from the Columbus and Newark campuses to teach OPEEP classes inside…

Group Interview with Professors Grace Li, DeAnza Cook, and Viet Trinh

OPEEP Program Coordinator Nicole Edgerton met with three newly hired faculty earlier this year to discuss their decision-making process in coming to OSU, shared backgrounds in prison education, and…

Where to find OPEEP on campus

Imagine New Worlds: Using the Freedom Dreaming Pedagogy ToolOPEEP is excited to collaborate with the Center for Feminist Research, Education and Engagement (FREE Center) for this fall 2024 kick-off…

Student Artwork from Spring 2024

Original artwork by Aaron, incarcerated student in Dr. Tiyi Morris' spring 2024 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements class (AAAS/History 3083) at…

In case you missed it...Spring media coverage links!

OPEEP was featured in several stories from local and national news outlets this past spring! More details and links below:Phoebe Helms with The Lantern published an article covering the profound…