Darden Program That Teaches Inmates Business Skills Goes National

Allison Kroboth was close to finishing a 15-year-sentence at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia when she first heard about a business class taught by MBAs from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. She’d completed her GED while in prison and earned an associate’s degree but was eager for more education as her release date neared. She signed up for the year-long class in 2016, learning about business and entrepreneurship through Darden’s well-known Socratic case method approach, which encourages collaborative classroom discussion about the topic being taught.

The class, part of Darden’s Reentry Education Program (PREP), changed the trajectory of her life. Eager for more, she took the two other classes offered by PREP – Foundations in Business and Financial Capability – before she was released in July of 2018.  While she didn’t have a desire to start her own business when she got out, she knew that learning the fundamentals of business and how to become an entrepreneur would help make the transition back into the workforce easier.

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