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Breaking Barriers
Pictured: Inaugural graduates of the 2024 LIFTED cohort celebrate their degree accomplishments. Courtesy of Steve Zylius/UC Irvine. Original article published on the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences website. Article by Heather Ashbach, UCI Social Sciences. ...
“It’s Your Time” – UCI LIFTED
«It's Your Time» - UCI LIFTED In this episode, we hear from two recent UC Irvine students, Babak Gilani and Alfonso Matas. Both men are graduates of the UCI LIFTED program, each graduating with honors in Sociology. The acronym, "LIFTED", stands for Leveraging...
UCI LIFTED Graduation Newsletter 2024
LIFTED: Transforming lives through higher education
By Nikki Babri Thinking of a prison setting, the image of incarcerated individuals reading novels like Frankenstein and The Yellow Wallpaper and engaging in deep literary discussions likely doesn’t come to mind. But at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San...
Community, Representation, and JEDI: How Formerly Incarcerated Students Can Thrive on Campus
Apr 5, 2023 | Smart Justice By Kenia Miranda Verdugo People leave prison with hopes of never having to return. As we learned in the beginning of the California’s Best Practices: Pathways From Prison to College series, the most proven way to end recidivism is through...
Pell Grants will return to prison, but for many, college will still be out of reach
By: Charlotte West Open Campus Caddell Kivett is ready to go back to college. He sorted out some old, defaulted student loans. He figured out what he wants to study. And he thought he had found a new way to pay for his classes. Except Kivett, 52, is in prison. He’ll...
Prison Education Program LIFTED Grants Incarcerated Individuals Opportunity to Earn Bachelor’s Degree at UCI
By:City News Writer Editor’s Note: This article has been updated on 2/5/23 to replace the term “inmate” with “incarcerated persons” in means of writing with inclusive language. The prison education program Leveraging Inspiring Futures Through Educational...
LIFTED pilot program gives inmates chance to pursue bachelor’s degree at UC Irvine
LIFTED pilot program gives inmates chance to pursue bachelor's degree at UC Irvine 25 inmates were admitted in spring 2022. By Phillip Palmer Saturday, January 7, 2023 IRVINE, Calif. (KABC) -- LIFTED, or Leveraging Inspiring Futures Through Educational Degrees, is a...
