{"id":32005,"date":"2022-05-22T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=32005"},"modified":"2022-05-22T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:00:38","slug":"newsmakers-north-hennepins-mary-fenske-talks-about-new-program-educating-people-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/22\/newsmakers-north-hennepins-mary-fenske-talks-about-new-program-educating-people-behind-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsmakers: North Hennepin\u2019s Mary Fenske Talks About New Program Educating People Behind Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"single-header-container\">\n<p>10:00 AM <span class=\"meta-pipe\">|<\/span> Sunday, May 22, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Newsmakers: North Hennepin\u2019s Mary Fenske Talks About New Program Educating People Behind Bars\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UnP9Gxvghkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>North Hennepin Community College is one of five local colleges selected for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/us-department-education-announces-it-will-expand-second-chance-pell-experiment-2022-2023-award-year\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Second Chance Pell Experiment,<\/a> which provides federal funding to educate people who are incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time is really ripe right now,\u201d said Mary Fenske, who oversees the North Hennepin program. \u201cThere\u2019s so much that folks want to do to make the system better and how we can improve the criminal justice system. One of the ways to do that is to really get justice-impacted people involved in the process and one of the ways you can do that is by providing a legal education to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96356\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96356\" class=\"wp-image-96356 \" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"fenske \" width=\"585\" height=\"329\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96356\" class=\"wp-image-96356 \" src=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274.jpg\" alt=\"fenske \" width=\"585\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MicrosoftTeams-image-274-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-96356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Fenske, Paralegal Program Director and Instructor at North Hennepin Community College<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The expansion of the Second Chance Pell Experiment program includes a total of 73 sites so that up to 200 programs will be able to participate. North Hennepin started a program in the fall of 2021 with a group of students from the Stillwater and Shakopee Correctional Facilities. The students study in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhcc.edu\/news\/paralegal-spotlight-qa-mary-fenske\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">paralegal program.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of our desire is to try to work within the system to provide education to them, so they can not only use the education upon release when they go out on job market but also for those who may not be released immediately,\u201d said Fenske.\u00a0 \u201cSo these students would normally not have access to federal financial aid funds, but as a now-member of that experiment, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhcc.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">North Hennepin Community Colleg<\/a>e has the ability to use Pell grants to fund the education of students who are now behind bars.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>See also:\u00a0\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/cities\/north-hennepin-community-college-2022-commencement\/\" rel=\"noopener follow noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">North Hennepin Community College 2022 Commencement<\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/city\/brooklyn-park\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Brooklyn Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/news_programs\/newsmakers\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Newsmakers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/news\/newsmakers-north-hennepins-mary-fenske-talks-about-new-program-educating-people-behind-bars\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 10:00 AM | Sunday, May 22, 2022 North Hennepin Community College is one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learningtheory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32007,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32005\/revisions\/32007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}