Patrick Filipe Conway

BC's Prison Education Program hosted its first-ever commencement inside the yard at MCI-Shirley, awarding diplomas to three graduates before an emotional crowd of students, family members, and supporters. on.bc.edu/PEPGrad

Today, the first cohort from the BC Prison Education Program will receive bachelor's degrees. Director Patrick Conway how the initiative provides a pathway for more effective, meaningful, and humane responses to crime and incarceration in the @BostonGlobe. bit.ly/PEP_BG

As our inaugural post, we wanted to give a big thank you to Muhammad and Mike from @DownNorthPizza for visiting Professor Harrington's Idea to Launch course at MCI-Shirley! 45 BCPEP students learned about starting and sustaining a mission-led business.

At the Lynch School of Education and Human Development’s Experience, Reflection, and Action seminar for first-year students, Patrick Conway said that spending time in the classroom benefits incarcerated individuals. bcheights.com/2023/09/21/con…

Proud to be welcomed today by the @bclynchschool, presenting alongside, Christian Miranda, a great representative of the Boston College Prison Education Program. Honored to take part in his educational journey, and can't wait to see him progress toward graduation! Stop on by.

Policymakers should consider "instrumental aims (e.g., skill development leading to career prospects) & more personally enriching aims (e.g., guided intellectual inquiry)" when justifying higher ed in prison initiatives. Read @PFConway30 #RHE article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Honored to have taken part in the development of this report (nebhe.org/commission-rep…) on the future of higher education in prison in New England. Thank you to @TEJI_MIT and @nebhe for all the work in putting this together. Exciting times for college-in-prison. #higheredinprison

@VirtuallyRoss @WarrCriminology Very much enjoyed that…thank you for sharing the article! Lots of overlap in experiences.

@PFConway30 Thanks Patrick. A lot resonates here with my experience teaching and researching in the prison classroom. In case you're interested, here's a link to a recent article I had published, with my former colleague @WarrCriminology (December 2022) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Happy to have this article on teaching practices in prison come out in Adult Education Quarterly: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

‘Education changes a person’: exploring student development in a college-in-prison program through critical andragogy By @PFConway30 #HigherEd #HigherEducation #LTHEchat #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #Andragogy #PrisonEducation #Phenomenology tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Just dropped! Ahead of print article by Dr. @PFConway30, "Beyond Recidivism: Exploring Formerly Incarcerated Student Perspectives on the Value of Higher Education in Prison," Read article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

"College-in-prison is perhaps limited in its capacity to combat the sheer ugliness of incarceration, but it can help recognize students as learners, rather than treating them as mere ‘criminals’" - new blog post from @PFConway30 about prison #highered... …achinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2023/02/26/era…

Fun to see this come out today in Teaching in Higher Education! It aims at beginning to establish a framework for better understanding student development in college-in-prison programs: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@Edu_Historian @HaveYouHeardPod @ecastillophd @BarryGoldenberg @MimiArnoldLyon @AdamKirkEdge @ASI_Dave @lavaredmonds @CorinneKentor @AriellRBertrand @SFrost_Waldron @annielgen Could not agree more with it being worth the time! Not only was it an honor and an opportunity to reach broader audiences, but it continually has helped me introduce my work to others -- in classroom settings, speaking engagements, and even within hiring committees (!).

How does the news media cover public policy debates (in this case, the debate over higher education in prison)? New article of mine appearing in Sociological Forum. #highered #newsmedia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/so…

A @bclynchschool collaboration with @Kathyc_rohn. What benefits do college students experience from hiking the Appalachian Trail? #ExperientialEducation #AppalachianTrail journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Happy to have been involved in this important research. A great review on urban Catholic education from colleagues at @bclynchschool @NCEATALK The review asks, is the legacy of urban Catholic ed still present? rdcu.be/cyJdu

Excited to be named the new Director of the Boston College Prison Education Program. Grateful for the opportunity to help shape the program. bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/…

Book Review on "Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South." If you don't know the work of artist Winfred Rembert, his memoir is a great introduction. artsfuse.org/236265/book-re…

Thank you to the @HaveYouHeardPod for featuring my work and research. Great conversation, and happy to have higher education in prison spotlighted. m.soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpo…