Accreditation & Institutional Research
Mount Tamalpais College is committed to rigorous, data-driven evaluation to drive program improvements and support research in the field of higher education in prison. We are accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education.
Accreditation
Mount Tamalpais College is committed to upholding the highest educational standards while devoting plentiful resources to ensuring student success. Learn more about our path to becoming an independent liberal arts college.
Longitudinal Study
In 2018-19, the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy conducted a rigorous, mixed methods evaluation of Mount Tamalpais College that examined various student outcomes. Findings show that the MTC program positively impacts students' sense of identity, self-efficacy, and leadership.
Read academic scholarship on Mount Tamalpais College's work at San Quentin.
- Lerman, Amy E. and Sadin, Meredith. "Transformational learning and identity shift: Evidence from a campus behind bars". Punishment & Society, volume 25, no. 3, March 24, 2022, pp. 683-706.
- Lerman, Amy E. "Best Practices for Evaluating Prison Higher Education" Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 2018.
- Lerman, Amy E. and Jacob Grumbach. "The Prison University Project: Qualitative Evidence on the Impact of Prison Higher Education" University of California, Berkeley, 2016.
- Lerman, Amy E. "Prison University Project Program Evaluation Progress Report" Princeton University, 2012.
Please note: Prior to September 2020, Mount Tamalpais College was known as the Prison University Project.
