College comes to the Eastern Shore prison: a $60,000 grant grows a 25-year-old classroom

For more than 25 years, Salisbury University volunteers have travelled to Maryland's Eastern Correctional Institution to read philosophy, write creatively and debate in Ethics Bowl with incarcerated learners — every semester, even through the pandemic, by email. Now a $60,000 grant from the University System of Maryland, part of $400,000 awarded to nine Maryland institutions, will help turn that volunteer tradition into expanded higher-education opportunities through the university's PHILoS initiative, led by philosophy professor Dr Timothy Stock. 'These are some of the best conversations I've ever had,' Stock says.

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