[Reentry-ed] Meeting to discuss collaboration with Center for Institutional and Social Change

[Michael Carey]

I'd like to be involved. The 28th would work for me.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:16 PM, John Gordon <jgordon at fortunesociety.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> At our last meeting, we discussed a possible collaboration with the Center
> for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School. Susan Sturm,
> director of the Center, was at our meeting and discussed their work with the
> College Initiative and some ideas for working with the Network as a whole.
> We had a good discussion and everyone felt this was an initiative we should
> pursue. I’ve pasted in Aviva’s notes from the discussion.
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> We agreed to set up a separate meeting to talk through what this might look
> like and how we might get it going. I’d like to schedule it before Aviva
> goes on vacation on June 30th. Is that possible? We could meet Monday,
> Tuesday, or Wednesday, the week of June 27th. Once we have a list of folks
> who would like to come, we can agree on a time and place. Please let me know
> if you’d like to participate.
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> Best,
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> John
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> Susan Sturm from the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia
> Law
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> ·        Context: Susan has been working with Michael Carey and the College
> Initiative on some projects and is interested in working with the Network as
> well. In particular, she’s interested in helping us both measure and
> increase our shared impact.
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> ·        So that the Network can better understand the work of the Center
> and the possible collaboration, Michael Carey will try to share the report
> that stemmed from the Center’s work with CI, “Building Pathways of
> Possibility from Criminal Justice to College: College Initiative as a
> Catalyst Linking Individual and Systemic Change.”  That study summarized the
> evidence of CI’s impact on program participants’ college access and
> persistence, documented the program logic and strategies used to achieve
> this impact, and identified the types of policy, and institutional and
> systems impact associated with these strategies (Sturm et al., 2010).
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> ·        Overview of Possible Collaboration between the Reentry Education
> Network and the Center for Institutional and Social Change
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> o       Goals of the possible collaboration include: More intentional
> collaboration, knowledge sharing, collective metrics, and mobilization
> around shared challenges have the potential to produce impact at a broader
> level.
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> o       A collaboration with the Center could be organized around the
> following goals:
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> §         (1) to provide evidence of the impact of these strategies on
> participants’ recidivism and academic persistence,
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> §         (2) to systematically identify and analyze the mechanisms and
> strategies used to cultivate networks and social capital for the target
> populations,
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> §         (3) to develop tools for assessing and building networks and
> relationships that increase access and success,
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> §         (4) to share this information with a larger reentry education
> network in New York City and disseminate it nationally to stimulate
> increased attention to developing and researching effective postsecondary
> educational interventions., and
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> §         (5) to increase the capacity of the member organizations and the
> Network to attract funding to support its work.
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> ·        Informal consensus of the group was that this is definitely
> something that Network members want to look into and learn more about.
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> ·        Next step will be another meeting, with Susan and any Reentry
> members who are interested/ available (will be aside from regular monthly
> meeting).
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> Susan Sturm
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> John Gordon
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