Rob Scott Email & Phone Number

Ithaca, NY, US

Cornell Prison Education Program

I am the director of a multi-site college-in-prison program at an Ivy League university. I represent our program on and off campus, raise money, and develop new programs by working with professors, grad students and undergraduates. Our program offers >30 courses per semester between four prisons; incarcerated students who are accepted to the program.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

I taught part-time for the Department of Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership in the College of Education. I was also on the Board of the Education Justice Project, the University of Illinois program for incarcerated undergraduates, which is part of the department.

I taught a suite of college courses in an adult correctional center. The subject was Horticulture with emphases on practical skills, economics, and sustainability. Students could complete all of my courses over an 8-month period while earning 30 college credits at the 100- and 200-level. The coursework involved classroom activities, individualized.

Urbana-Champaign Area

I served in various capacities with the Education Justice Project, a unit of the University of Illinois, including grant-writing, recruitment, organizing a conference, sitting on the advisory board, helping with hiring and teaching college classes at an adult correctional center.

Duties included student recruitment and admissions, fundraising, webmaster, payroll decisions, legal/financial reporting, teaching.

Founded a non-profit for promoting local sustainable design while in college, and spent several years running several programs through it.

Ph.D., Educational Policy Studies

Activities and Societies: American Educational Studies Association, Alternative Education Resource Organization, Education Justice.

Bachelor, Liberal Arts

Senior Thesis topic: Alternative Education and Ecological Sustainability