Our Mission and Vision
Education, scholarship and advocacy for a just society
The mission of Quinnipiac University Prison Education and Community Engagement is to contribute to a more just society through quality education, programming and advocacy toward empowerment, decarceration and healthy communities. We do this by using progressive, humane, trauma-responsive and empirically-based solutions to social challenges while fostering community resilience and human dignity. This work requires the collaboration of scholars, students, professionals and activists, in solidarity with those with lived experience of mass incarceration and in dynamic response to a constantly changing world.
Through this alliance, we aim to:
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Provide the Quinnipiac University community with educational opportunities, programming and professional development to understand and address the realities of today’s carceral system.
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Promote interdisciplinary education, scholarship, policy work and engagement related to policing, sentencing, incarceration and reentry across the state of Connecticut.
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Develop and deliver educational and programming opportunities with and for systems-impacted communities.
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Build a just and healthy society by equipping students, faculty, staff and alumni to work in solidarity with communities targeted by mass incarceration toward cross-sector systems reform, including education, healthcare, housing and employment.
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Advocate for holistic, person-centered approaches to community harm, addressing systemic disparities and fostering educational equity.
Through this mission, we are building a Quinnipiac community dedicated to justice. By mobilizing university resources towards these ends, we are creating new possibilities for education, policy and programming that contribute to ending mass incarceration.
