{"id":43987,"date":"2016-07-13T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=43987"},"modified":"2020-09-04T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:32:19","slug":"mets-prison-education-program-featured-in-new-yorker-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/mets-prison-education-program-featured-in-new-yorker-article\/","title":{"rendered":"MET\u2019s Prison Education Program Featured in New Yorker Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_366487229-1.jpg\" alt=\"MET\u2019s Prison Education Program Featured in New Yorker Article\" width=\"755\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43988 size-full\" title=\"MET\u2019s Prison Education Program Featured in New Yorker Article\"><\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan College\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pep\/\">Prison Education Program<\/a>, established in 1972, was mentioned in an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-power-of-pell-grants-for-prisoners\"><em>New Yorker<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>The article, focusing on the Obama Administration\u2019s new Second Chance Pell Pilot Program, cites Boston University as the only school to continue its prison education initiatives after Pell Grant eligibility for prisoners was withdrawn in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Read \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-power-of-pell-grants-for-prisoners\">The Power of Pell Grants for Prisoners<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan College\u2019s Prison Education Program, established in 1972, was mentioned in an article in the New Yorker. The article, focusing on the Obama Administration\u2019s new Second Chance Pell Pilot Program, cites Boston University as the only school to continue its prison education initiatives after Pell Grant eligibility for prisoners was withdrawn in 1994. Read \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63970,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987\/revisions\/63970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}