Events

This Georgia Seminar will take a behind-the-scenes look at the nationally recognized prison education program, Common Good Atlanta (CGA), founded by Sarah Higinbotham of Oxford College and Bill Taft. Since 2008, an all-volunteer consortium of 70 faculty from six universities have taught the liberal arts in four prisons, plus a downtown course for prison-impacted people. […]

The seminar will bring together Common Good Atlanta alumni to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. The following topics are ripe for discussion: efforts of those in higher education to reach across the community, the detrimental effects of mass incarceration on the community, an American penal system that is more focused […]