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Archive: April 2019

News | Debate Union

How maximum security inmates took on Cambridge in a debate about nuclear weapons — and won

By Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post

  The three students from the University of Cambridge, wearing black suits and clutching sheaves of papers, stepped onto the wooden auditorium stage under the warm yellow lights. As members of a storied debate team, they had competed the world over but never in a… Read More 

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News | Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison

Marian University to offer classes at Indiana Women’s Prison

Marian University News Release

Sixteen women at the Indiana Women’s Prison (IWP) on the west side of Indianapolis are now pursuing college degrees through Marian University. The opportunity is provided through the Women’s College Partnership, a joint venture between Marian and the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). Marian University has… Read More 

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A Consequential Myth

By Jule Hall '11

BPI alumnus Jule Hall ('11) authored an essay on the realities of race in America. The full article reproduced below first appeared in Philanthropy New York. Hall is a program officer in the Unit for Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice at the Ford Foundation.   A… Read More 

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