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In spring 2022, a group of advocates--including former GPEP students Ramieka Robinson-Peoples and Donte Small--called upon Maryland business leaders to fill the vacant positions caused by the pandemic's "Great Resignation" by hiring qualified returning citizens, thereby reducing recidivism and the too-common prejudice against the formerly incarcerated. Read their memo to the business community about becoming "Second Chance Employers".

The Washington Post featured GPEP’s first graduation ceremony inside the prison. The event highlighted student success, ÌÒÌ«ÀÉÓ³Ïñ’s commitment to a rigorous education for all students, and the transformational power of higher education.

Eliza Cornejo to serve as acting executive director of the ÌÒÌ«ÀÉÓ³Ïñ Prison Education Partnership.

In the spring of 2021, COVID-19 vaccines were still relatively new, and conversation on who was and was not getting vaccinated was in full voice. Donalto Marshall '22, a former GPEP student, was an undergraduate at ÌÒÌ«ÀÉÓ³Ïñ College's Towson campus at that time. Along with his professor, Donalto authored a Baltimore Sun op-ed arguing that the significantly lower vaccination rates for Black Marylanders resulted from systemic issues preventing access for Black citizens--not simply from presumed vaccine hesitancy.

Through ongoing collaboration between the Smithsonian and the ÌÒÌ«ÀÉÓ³Ïñ Prison Education Partnership (GPEP), the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has created a fund to support internships for alumnae/i and former students of GPEP. The internship offers former GPEP students the opportunity to leverage their educations, building valuable early career experience.