Programs & Projects
Education Justice Project
The Education Justice Project (EJP) celebrated a major milestone in 2008-9, offering its first on-site classes to incarcerated students at a local state prison after two years of planning and development. The Project offers a strongly humanities-based curriculum, in the belief that humanities study best equips students to grapple critically and honestly with vital questions about the world and their places in it. The year also saw the opening of the University of Illinois’ Resource Room at the prison, a combination library, computer lab, and tutoring center. 
EJP receives support from a range of on- and off-campus groups, including the IPRH, the Odyssey Project, the Illinois Humanities Council, and the Office of Public Engagement. Graduate students and faculty from the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Fine and Applied Arts, and Education teach, tutor, and otherwise support EJP, which is a unit of the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society.
Information about the Education Justice Project can be found online at http://www.educationjustice.net.