Caroline Young recognized with a Service-Learning Teaching Excellence Award

Caroline Young, lecturer with the English department in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has evolved her English service-learning course, The Prison Writing Project, into a life-changing experience for her students. For this course, Young formed collaborations between the Georgia Museum of Art and Common Good Atlanta, a college-in-prison program that serves six prisons in Georgia, to connect the university with the incarcerated community and explore the role of the arts in prison education. Her students have completed projects to bring museum experiences to incarcerated students and helped bring the art exhibit curated by women in Whitworth Women’s Facility, “Art is a Form of Freedom,” to life. Her class has also collaborated with Time Out of Joint, an organization that employs former prisoners as teachers, to develop Shakespeare workshops for high school and college classrooms across the U.S.

The Service-Learning Teaching Excellence Award recognize faculty for excellence in developing, implementing and sustaining academic service-learning opportunities for UGA students.