Reimagining higher education
as a Life-Affirming Institution
The Campus Abolition Research Lab (CARL) was established in 2020 as an interdisciplinary research and practice incubator. CARL is dedicated to facilitating the disruption and dismantlement of the carceral university through collaboratively reimagining the presence of higher education as a life-affirming institution.
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Becoming Campus Abolitionists
Activists, community organizers, and policymakers have attempted police reform for more than a century. Whether diversifying departments, conducting racial bias training, or implementing community policing, no reform effort has stopped police from harming the public it has pledged to "protect and serve." While these concerns are largely understood outside of higher education, a closer look at the role colleges and universities play in expanding the carceral state reveal a deep, long-standing relationship with the institution of policing. Join Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III and Derecka Purnell in conversation as they discuss the policing problem and explore possibilities for police-free futures, on campus and beyond.
Between the Carceral University
and Police-Free Futures
In the wake of national discourses about the future of policing, many higher education leaders are reconsidering their institution’s relationship to municipal and campus police.
As an attempt to address this social and political moment, Between the Carceral University and Police-Free Futures brings together concerned campus and community stakeholders to discuss the many and varied ways contemporary colleges and universities create the conditions that necessitate policing and prisons.
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