From 1970 to today
Community Working Classics
Inside the walls of the Muskegon Correctional Facility, a small group of students in blue and orange prison uniforms gather with Grand Valley faculty for courses like logic, ethics, world history, economics and film studies. The students are participating in a program that is teaching them the value of a liberal education — and that hopefully will have them becoming philanthropists.
Read more from Brian Bowe's story, "A Gift from Prison," in the summer 2006 issue of Grand Valley Magazine.
For more information, see the chapter "Unchained Melody: Philosophical Reflections from the Working Classics Program," co-written by Michael DeWilde and studentsAbigail DeHart, Katie Stefanek, and Emily Strokain, in Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration .
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