[IMC] [Please Announce] "Teaching on the Inside: Reflections from the Education Justice Project"

[Megan Flowers]

Hi Ryan,

I am writing you to see if you are interested in inviting Independent Media
Center, UIUC Chapter members to an upcoming Friday Forum talk on higher
education for the incarcerated.  The talk is on Friday, Sept. 13 at 12
noon.


Would you be willing to announce this talk to your members? I have added
talk details below.


Thanks!


-Megan Flowers

Communications Director

University YMCA-UIUC

"Teaching on the Inside: Reflections from the Education Justice Project"

What: Rebecca Ginsburg from the Education Justice Project will talk about
prison higher education

When: September 13th at noon

Where: Latzer Hall, University YMCA 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign

For more information on each lecture, visit:
universityymca.org/friday_forum/

Background Info: The Education Justice Project, a unit of the College of
Education at the University of Illinois, offers for-credit courses and
other educational programs to men incarcerated at Danville Correctional
Center. This innovative program is one of only a few dozen independent
college-in-prison programs in the United States. The program also offers
many
extracurricular activities including a Shakespeare play, discussion groups,
committees and other theater groups.

Rebecca Ginsburg, an Illinois faculty member, is a co-founder of EJP and
currently serves as its director. She'll offer an argument for the value of
prison higher education and share stories from her experiences with EJP
students at Danville prison.

Taking on a year-long look at the state of security in America, the Fall
Friday Forum series, Beyond Mass Incarceration, will peer deeply into
current issues revolving around incarceration and will feature expert views
on current issues at the local, state, and national levels. Friday Forum is
a weekly lecture series held during the fall and spring semesters that
strives to raise awareness about national and international trends and
events.

Lectures take place September 6 - November 8, every Friday at 12 noon.  All
lectures are free and open to the public. Lunch available by reservation
only ($6.50/3.00 student).  The lectures will be available to view on the
University YMCA YouTube Channel at
http://www.youtube.com/user/UniversityYMCA. The lecture will rebroadcast on
WEFT 90.1 on the Monday following the lecture at 6pm.  To reserve lunch,
visit: or call Carol Nunn at 217.337.1500

*The Fall 2013 Friday Forum lectures series, Rethinking Security: Beyond
Mass Incarceration, is sponsored by the University YMCA, YWCA of the
University of Illinois, Jan & Durl Kruse, The Chapel of St. John the
Divine, CU Branch of AAUW, League of Women Voters of Champaign County, LGBT
Resource Center, Champaign County ACLU, Dr. Anne Robin, Wesley United
Methodist Church,Wesley Foundation at the University of Illinois, Education
Justice Project, The Center for Advanced Study, Social Action Committee of
the Unitarian Universalist Church, Bruce and Helen Berndt, School of
Architecture, Department of Psychology, Department of Landscape
Architecture, Paid for by SORF.*

-- 
Best,
Megan Flowers
Communications Director
University YMCA
Office: 217-337-1500
Fax: 217-337-1533
Email: megan at universityymca.org
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