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Professor Alisse Waterston Appointed Presidential Scholar
Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 10:45Provost Jane Bowers has announced the appointment of Professor Alisse Waterston as a Presidential Scholar effective spring 2017 in recognition of her accomplishments...
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Students Spend Winter Break in Mandela’s Footsteps
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 13:45It is said that South Africa cannot be understood without being experienced. During the recent winter break, about a dozen John Jay students got a thorough immersion in...
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Winter Session Heats Up Again
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 14:30The recently completed three-week winter session at John Jay once again raised the bar of success, with 1,788 students opting to take one or more courses from a diverse...
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High APA Honors for Psychology Faculty
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 15:30Two leading members of John Jay’s Department of Psychology have been recognized by the American Psychological Association with top honors for their contributions to the...
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The Call to Service is Sweet Music for John Jay Senior
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 15:45When John Jay senior Elijah Font was recently interviewed by Fox 5, the focus of the conversation was his involvement in the CUNY Cultural Corps, an offshoot of CUNY...
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New Book Calls for Getting Smarter about Cybercrime
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 15:45Cybercrimes, when they occur, are almost unrivaled in generating attention and even fear. Whether in the form of assaults on individual bank accounts or coordinated...
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John Jay College Receives USAID Grant for Violence Prevention Project in...
Friday, March 3, 2017 - 09:45The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded John Jay College of Criminal Justice a $4.98 million grant to create the Academy for Security...
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John Jay College Ranks #3 Among Top-Performing Institutions for Black Student...
Monday, March 6, 2017 - 11:00New York, NY, March 6, 2017– A new report by the Education Trust that examines graduation rates for Black students ranks John Jay College of Criminal Justice number 3 in...
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NEW REPORT: CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM MUST ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF WOMEN
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 13:30 Women Have Not Benefited From Criminal Justice Reform to the Same Extent as MenADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF JUSTICE-INVOLVED WOMEN WILL RESULT IN A FAIRER AND MORE EFFECTIVE...
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Student Playwrights Go Face-to-Face with Sexual Violence
Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 14:30Sexual violence remains among the most sensitive, hot-button societal issues, yet all too often, the word “rape” is still uttered only in whispered tones, much as words...
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Provost Jane Bowers Steps Down
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 16:00Jane Bowers, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at John Jay College, will retire and step down from her position at the end of this academic year,...
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Professor Effie Cochran Awarded Greek Diaspora Fellowship to Work with...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 10:15Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program Selects 21 Diaspora Fellows to Conduct Projects with Greek UniversitiesNew York, NY, March 21, 2017– Effie Papatzikou Cochran,...
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CNN’s Van Jones Hailed as 2017 Justice Trailblazer
Monday, February 27, 2017 - 15:30Van Jones, the CNN commentator who was a familiar on-air presence during last year’s presidential campaign and election, was honored Feb. 16 as the 2017 Justice...
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John Jay Salutes Its “Champions of Justice”
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 16:15More than 125 scholarship recipients and their benefactors were saluted on Feb. 23 at the annual Champions of Justice reception in John Jay’s Moot Court.There are...
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Under the Gun
Monday, March 27, 2017 - 16:15Gun violence in America, seemingly a daily headline in the news media, is the focus of a probing, semester-long examination at John Jay that seeks to shed light on...
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An Inside Look at the Machinery of Government
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 12:15“When you’re in the Senate, you can feel the power. Everything is slow and deliberate and done withgreat intention. But the House is really scrappy and super fast-paced....
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Crunching the Numbers to Gauge Extremist Crime
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 12:30The Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, the mass shooting at the Charleston AME church and the Boston Marathon bombing are three recent examples of violent attacks that...
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The Drama of Sexual Violence
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 15:45Sexual violence remains among the most sensitive, hot-button societal issues, yet all too often, the word “rape” is still uttered only in whispered tones, much as words...
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Outstanding Young Alumnus 2017: Alden Foster (B.S. ’12)
Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 12:15Alden Foster says he always knew he wanted to be a cop, and he began working toward that goal as a summer intern with the NYPD at the tender age of 14. Foster enrolled...
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Misdemeanor Justice Project Report Examines Pretrial Detention in New York City
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 16:15April 5, 2017, New York, NY– As counties and cities around the country look for ways to reduce the levels of pretrial detention, a new report from the Misdemeanor...
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