Bard Prison Initiative

The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) is a program of Bard College that provides college opportunity to people in prison. Currently operating in six prisons across New York State, BPI's academic programs engage students in the full breadth of liberal study and end in associate and bachelor's degrees from Bard. It currently enrolls 350 students full-time in liberal arts programs.^[1] Since federal funding for prison education programs was eliminated in 1995,^[2] the BPI is one of the only college degree granting programs available in U.S. prisons.^[1]

BPI is also the home of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison, which recruits, assists, and collaborates with colleges and universities across the country as they enter this field of work and reestablish college opportunity for people in prison in their home states.

References

1 2 "Bard Prison Initiative". Bard Prison Initiative website. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
↑ "Maximum Security Education". 60 Minutes. Transcript. 2007-04-15. CBS. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

External links

Official website

Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Academics	Bard College Conservatory of Music Levy Economics Institute

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Affiliated Programs	al-Quds University American University of Central Asia Bard College at Simon's Rock Bard College Berlin Bard Graduate Center Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program Bard High School Early College Bard Prison Initiative Central European University Longy School of Music of Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Paramount Bard Academy Smolny College

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