Programs

In fall 2026, TU launched its Higher Education in Prison Program (HEPP) at the Maryland Correctional Training Center, a medium security men's prison in Hagerstown, MD. The program offers a bacholer's degree in interdisciplinary studies.

In fall 2021, FCHE partnered with TU’s Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson (FACET) to form the Fair Chance Community of Practice (CoP). The FCHE CoP fosters regular interactive and engaging opportunities for faculty, staff, students, and community members to come together to build awareness, share best practices, create new knowledge and hone professional practices related to supporting justice-impacted people.

Events the Fair Chance CoP has hosted so far include discussions on “Prison Education as Social Justice” and “Mass Incarceration 101: How did we get here?”; a reading circle on prison abolition; and a “Meet the Author” event with Em Daniels, author or “Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom.”  

More information on upcoming events can be found under the “Events” tab.

Inside-Out courses provide unique opportunities to bring TU students and incarcerated students together inside a correctional institution to learn together as peers. Inside-Out works towards a paradigm shift for all participants, encouraging personal transformation and an increased sense of agency, thereby serving as an engine for social change.

Courses have been offered in two Maryland “jails” — the Baltimore County Detention Center (beginning in 2014) and the Harford County Detention Center (since 2017).

Inside-Out Instructors

• Elyshia Aseltine, associate professor, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts
• Jennifer Ballengee, professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
• Vera Case, Teaching Professor, Business Excellence, College of Business and Economics 
• Walter Dearborn, lecturer, Department of Health Sciences, College of Health Professions
• Stephen Erik Hartmark, Teaching Professor,  Dept of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts. 
• Corey Hennessey, adjunct, Department of Theatre Arts, College of Fine Arts and Communication
• Ashley Kilmer, associate professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts
• Gauri Kulkarni, associate professor, Department of Marketing, College of Business and Economics
• Tavia LaFollette, associate professor, Department of Theatre Arts, College of Fine Arts and Communication
• Michelle Manasse, professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts
• Morna McNulty, professor, Department of Elementary Education, College of Education 
• Katherine Orlando, graduate program director and assistant teaching professor, Dept of Instructional Leadership & Professional Development, College of Education
• Emily Parker, professor, philosophy and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts
• Jennifer Potter, adjunct , Department of Communication Studies, College of Fine Arts and Communication
• Arundhati Rao, associate professor, Department of Accounting, College of Business and Economics 
• Briana Snyder, associate professor, Department of Nursing, College of Health Professions
• Evangeline Wheeler, professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts

Inside-Out Partners

• Baltimore County Detention Center
• Volunteers of America Chesapeake Resident Reentry Center