The culmination of Nebraska Wesleyan’s first Give To Learn class was a $10,000 grant to Lincoln’s Good Neighbor Community Center on December 11.
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Before he began teaching, James Perry, associate professor of professional studies, worked in prisoner rights in foreign countries, a passion that has shaped his work at NWU.
In 2008, he took a group of NWU students on a field trip to the Nebraska State Penitentiary.
“I was listening to the questions students were asking and realized they had no familiarity with this whole world,” Perry said. “And what better way to learn about the prison system than to volunteer inside it?”
