Educating the Incarcerated Strengthens our Communities, Says PEP Director
Dr. Abigail Ballou is director of the Boston University Metropolitan College (MET) Prison Education Program (PEP) and a visiting assistant professor in MET’s Department of Applied Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in criminology and criminal justice from Northeastern University, an MPhil in English literature from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and […]
Education’s Transformative Power on Display as MET Honors Prison Program’s Legacy of Impact
To learn is to be improved upon, to be changed by knowledge. For more than 50 years, Boston University has been a conduit of change for the incarcerated through its Prison Education Program, administered by Metropolitan College (MET). On Tuesday, April 2, 2024, MET invited friends of the program to BU’s Metcalf Trustee Center for […]
Music Brings Transformation to MCI-Norfolk
For the men at MCI–Norfolk, there was something to sing about this past spring when Boston University doctoral candidate in conducting Jamie Hillman and BU Professor of Music André de Quadros brought Music Appreciation (MET MU 118) to the medium-security prison through BU’s Metropolitan College Prison Education Program. Lest one assume that “music appreciation” is […]