Fifty Nebraska Wesleyan University students and nearly 20 professors participated in a RISE Reentry Simulation, an interactive, empathy-building workshop that compresses the first month of life after incarceration into a single hour.
Associate Professor James Perry’s prison outreach program has evolved from a small book club into a 17-year initiative in which NWU students co-teach classes inside correctional facilities, highlighting the transformative power of education for everyone involved.
NWU's chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD), the international sociology honor society, received the Social Justice Award, a grant supporting meaningful social justice initiatives, to offer a reentry skills course for incarcerated individuals.
Nebraska Wesleyan University’s Forum Committee presented its Faculty Scholarship Presentation Award this spring to a professor studying international democratic backsliding.
“I’m a sociologist of law, and my research explores how the law is used and abused for antidemocratic purposes here and around the world,” said Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology Heba Khalil.
