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This spring we will be entering an exciting new phase of teaching at California Medical Facility and California State Prison-Solano. We are returning to face-to-face instruction as well as continuing with correspondence classes to supplement an ever-growing roster of students and need for classes.
This coming semester, our incarcerated students who are taking face-to-face classes will be issued computers with access to an institutionally protected intranet and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's version of Canvas. This will greatly enhance learning opportunities for these students.
Although it seems counterintuitive, and it is, correspondence students will not have access to computers and Canvas at this time.
At California State Prison-Solano L2 we are offering 13 unique courses, 6 of which will be face-to-face, or in-person, classes. At the same institution on L3 we are providing students with 16 courses and 7 will be in-person. We are also exploring a hybrid option with at least one course.
At California Medical Facility (CMF), we are offering 21 courses, 14 of which will be face-to-face classes. Solano County Jail, which has a very limited number of students and does not allow in-person classes, will share 5 correspondence courses with CMF.
Our Spring 2023 semester will be the largest offering of college courses to date. In total, we are providing our incarcerated students with 50 courses, all geared toward achieving ADTs and student success. By comparison, in Fall 2022, which was the most robust offering of courses to date, we offered 32 courses. We currently have 565 unduplicated students.
Of the 50 courses we are offering in Spring 2023, 27 will be taught in-person.
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