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For active-duty service members and veterans eyeing a college degree, the march to academic success just got easier. The University of North Carolina system now has a tool that simplifies the conversion of military expertise into university credits across 16 campuses. Bradley Wrenn, program manager for military and veterans education with UNC, described the systems Military Equivalency System as a way to streamline what used to be a rigorous process for people looking to find out how much of t...

Boston Universitys Prison Education Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and is hoping to expand. Students at Massachusetts Correctional Institution Norfolk and MCI Framingham are earning undergraduate certificates and Bachelor of Liberal Arts degrees, to reform their lives and find ways to give back to their communities upon release. Program Director Mary Ellen Mastrorilli said it offers hope for a better self, and her students are eager to learn. ...

Benard McKinley was sentenced to prison at age 19 for a gang-related murder

In a historic achievement, Benard McKinley, 39, was accepted to Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago

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BU Prison Education Program celebrates a half century of bringing transformation to the incarcerated.

Restorative justice programs in schools and higher education within prisons help, respectively, to prevent arrests and behaviors leading to violence and crimes among young students and offer reintegration options and opportunities for a dignified life for those exiting prison. All this contributes to community safety and creates opportunities for a better life

The program will allow incarcerated persons to work toward a degree while in prison.

The Prison Education Program recently hosted a special campus performance for participants in its innovative prison-based spoken-word course.

A pickleball enthusiast is working to turn an empty field in Kentwood into an amenity-filled facility.