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Outreach: Influencing STEM Knowledge

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Courses at the San Quentin State Penitentiary

Thirty-five (35) prisoners at the San Quentin State Penitentiary were able to earn college credit toward AA degrees by the efforts of an IGERT trainee who taught an introduction to American government course. The focus of this IGERT is involvement in social systems, evaluation of the effects, costs and benefits of policies, and implementing legislation consistent with original legislative intent. The trainee also presented results from her research on correctional officers and the perceptions of safety on the job to the correctional officers of the penitentiary.