UWT Husky Post-Prison Pathways

09/27/2024

04/13/2023

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Grant Tietjen to the pack!

Dr. Tietjen joins Omari Amili, Christopher Beasley, and Dean Rachel Endo as the fourth formerly incarcerated faculty member on the Tacoma campus--three of whom have tenure. Dr. Tietjen is an Associate Professor specializing in the criminology of system-affected academics. He earned his BA, MA, and PhD in Sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His areas of professional interest include criminal justice, criminology, education, criminological theory, mass incarceration, social stigma, and social inequality. Dr. Tietjen has numerous publications to his name in peer-reviewed journals, books, and encyclopedias, as well as book reviews and works in progress. His work covers topics such as the status fragility of formerly incarcerated academics, trauma as a predictor of correctional education usage, justice-impacted identity, stigma faced by formerly incarcerated citizens, and building a formal theory of convict criminology. Moreover, Dr. Tietjen helped to guide the Convict Criminology group from a sub-area of critical criminology in the American Society of Criminology to an official Division. He's also personally supported and mentored formerly incarcerated scholars. Dr. Tietjen's dedication to understanding and improving the lives of those affected by the criminal justice system is evident in his extensive body of work.

Many thanks to the search committee, CJ faculty, and Dean Keva Miller for all the time and effort you put into this search as well as your value for lived expertise. Together, we're building a campus that recognizes the value of this expertise as well as the importance of ensuring that those most impacted by mass incarceration are leading in and benefit from efforts to critique and innovate this and related systems.

02/07/2022

The UWT Husky Post-Prison Pathways is currently undertaking an effort to create a reentry guide for peoples who are formerly incarcerated or been in conflict with the legal system as they navigate entry into and seek higher education. We would love to gather your input and invite you as partners in this endeavor. Information regarding student services, community wellness, and reentry initiatives especially pertaining to those who are returning from incarceration in the Tacoma/Pierce County area would be greatly appreciated!

The Husky’s Post Prison Pathways (HP3) is currently undertaking an effort to create a reentry guide for peoples who are formerly incarcerated or been in conflict with the legal system as they navigate entry into and seek higher education. As is the case for both successful college acclimation and ...

01/13/2022

Check out this PBS NOVA episode in which Stan Andrisse, MBA, PhD, Syrita Steib, Christopher Medina-Kirchner, and Noel Vest, PhD discuss the power of STEM opportunities for them as well as other incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLAhK4TQ3mY

11/18/2021

Belated congratulations to Michelle Noelani Keiukahi Burchett for receiving the 2020-2021 Washington Campus Compact Civic Leadership Fellowship for her work with UWT's Husky Post-Prison Pathways. Michelle hosted a summit of formerly incarcerated students across the state of Washington to develop a statwide collective of such students--the Washington State Student Council on Reentry (WA SCoR).

Michelle is a woman in recovery and formerly incarcerated college graduate. At present, she is a graduate student @ UWT, MA in Community Planning. She is also a mother, grandmother, and a proud Native Hawaiian. Michelle is putting her life experience before, during, and after her formal education into transformative action with the grassroots, statewide movement of organizing Formerly Incarcerated Students. Her decision to add her name to this project is grounded in the ongoing value that community has brought to her own path of recovery and higher education. At present, through the efforts of many, the Washington State Student Council on Reentry (WA SCoR) is just beginning.

10/26/2021

We're honored you chose UW, Michael Lidel. Your presence will strengthen our university and the students you touch along the way. Thanks for being you and being part of our community.

Our UBB today is Michael Lidel! Michael graduated with his Associates Degree from Seattle Central College in 2019 and is now doing wonderful things in the community 🙌 📚🎓

10/26/2021

UW President Cauce recently sat down with the Post-Prison Education Program to discuss incarceration, recidivism, and the roles and responsibilities of higher education. If you'd like to learn more about why and how the University of Washington should and could address one of most alarming inequities in higher education as well as one of the most pressing social issues of our time and place, you can check out the PPEP podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1T33x7yguKiWdI6pQLZrBG?si=b-nThKBTQTSvpk8mZBAq1A

Listen to this episode from Post-Prison Education on Spotify. Join us for a conversation with University of Washington President, Dr. Ana Mari Cauce, about educational access for all.