Abstract Equipping students for citizenship has always been a core element of American higher education. Amid financial distress, changing technology, and global interconnectivity, the project of equipping citizens is becoming increasingly disembodied. Embracing the notion that one’s physical place matters, one application of an embodied practice has been the development of educational programs inside prisons in the United States. Beginning in 2015, Calvin University launched one such program inside the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility called the Calvin Prison Initiative (CPI) with the goal of extending Calvin’s mission to equip students to be “agents of renewal in the world.” The program offers opportunity for individual renewal through personal development in the context of a rigorous curriculum that culminates in a bachelors degree, as well as communal renewal through the transformation of the culture within the prison animated by the CPI students therein. After a description of the program and its context, this article describes a pilot study which sought to understand the impact of the CPI on its participants, particularly on how they see themselves as moral and spiritual leaders within Michigan’s prisons. Through analysis of 57 essay pairs—one when applying to the program, and one after a portion of the program was completed—the data suggest that CPI participants demonstrate growth in three key areas of personal, educational, and community formation. This article concludes with a discussion of implications for the program, future programmatic and research opportunities, and implications for embodied community engagement within Christian higher education writ large.

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为学生的“特定起义”争取正义：从大学监狱倡议中吸取的教训

摘要 培养学生的公民意识一直是美国高等教育的核心要素。在财务困境、不断变化的技术和全球互联互通的情况下，为公民提供装备的项目正变得越来越脱离实体。接受一个人的物理位置很重要的概念，具体实践的一种应用是在美国监狱内发展教育计划。从 2015 年开始，卡尔文大学在 Richard A. Handlon 惩教所内启动了一项名为 Calvin Prison Initiative (CPI) 的此类计划，其目标是扩展 Calvin 的使命，让学生成为“世界复兴的推动者”。该计划在严格的课程背景下通过个人发展提供个人更新的机会，最终获得学士学位，以及通过监狱内 CPI 学生激发的文化转化来实现社区更新。在描述了该计划及其背景之后，本文描述了一项试点研究，该研究旨在了解 CPI 对其参与者的影响，尤其是他们如何将自己视为密歇根监狱中的道德和精神领袖。通过对 57 对论文的分析——一个是在申请项目时，另一个是在项目的一部分完成后——数据表明 CPI 参与者在个人、教育和社区形成三个关键领域表现出增长。本文最后讨论了对该计划的影响、未来的计划和研究机会，以及对基督教高等教育中具体社区参与的影响。