John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Coordinates: 40°46′13″N 73°59′18″W / 40.7703°N 73.9883°W
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| Established | 1964 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Jeremy Travis |
| Academic staff | 1,000+ (includes adjuncts) |
| Undergraduates | 14,000+ |
| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| Sports | 14 teams |
| Mascot | Bloodhound |
| Website | www.jjay.cuny.edu |
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a senior college of the City University of New York in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is the only liberal arts college with a criminal justice and forensic focus in the United States. The college offers programs in Forensic Science and Forensic Psychology. It has about 14,000 full-time equivalent students, including traditional, pre-career undergraduate students and those pursuing master’s degrees in several disciplines. John Jay College of Criminal Justice was founded in 1964 and was originally called the College of Police Science (COPS). Classes were held at the Police Academy on East 20th Street. Eventually, the school was expanded to incorporate many liberal arts disciplines and was renamed John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
It moved to its current location in the former Charles B. J. Snyder-designed De Witt Clinton High School in 1988. After Clinton moved to the Bronx the building became Haaren High School. The building is now Haaren Hall on the campus.[1]
It offers criminal justice education and research. It is a training facility for local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel.[citation needed] The college has invited speakers such as Janet Reno and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The school's namesake, John Jay, was the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court and one of the founding fathers of the United States. Jay was a native of New York City, and a New York State governor.
The school has a Forensic Science program, one of the few schools in the nation which offers the undergraduate degree with tracks in Criminalistics, Molecular Biology, and Toxicology.
The College is unique from other Criminal Justice programs across the country as a result of its locale. Besides local law enforcement agencies, the New York City area contains a number of federal law enforcement agencies. The geographical location and specialization has afforded the University a pool of experienced instructors from which to hire. The faculty are often former high level law enforcement officers who have years of experience in the field.[citation needed]
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[edit] Campus
John Jay College consists of six buildings. The school is located in northwest midtown Manhattan near Columbus Circle and Lincoln Center.
The buildings are: Haaren Hall (also known as the Tenth Avenue building or, simply, the T building), which also contains the Lloyd George Sealy Library, the Gerald W. Lynch Theater, a gymnasium, and a swimming pool; North Hall (N building); newly-constructed Westport Building (W building) where John Jay College rents the first two floors; one floor of the BMW building (6th floor) and one floor of 619 West 54th Street (54th Street Annex). A new $600 million building called the new building was completed in 2011. It is located at 11th Avenue between West 58th and West 59th Streets. Administration offices are on the top floor of the T building, while the departmental offices are spread across the N building with the exceptions of the Foreign Language and English Departments, which are now located on West 54th Street.[citation needed]
It is anticipated that the N building will be relinquished to the State of New York after the newest building has been completely open to access.[citation needed]
[edit] Admissions
John Jay College currently admits 47% of applicants to its undergraduate programs. [2] The school's graduate programs are highly selective[citation needed]. The school's applicants tend to be in-state residents with 97% of students enrolled in classes at John Jay College being residents of New York State, with just 3% out-of-state. [3]
[edit] Academics
John Jay College is primarily known for its criminal justice studies. It is also one of the few schools in the country that offers undergraduate forensic majors,[citation needed] with tracks in Criminalistics,[clarification needed] Toxicology, and Molecular Biology. Many students attend John Jay College with the intention of joining the law enforcement community.[citation needed] It[clarification needed] has also worked on the number of students attending law school. It established the Pre-Law institute[clarification needed] to guide students that intend to go to law school, therefore increasing applications to the school.[citation needed]
[edit] Students
On average, there are over 14,000 undergraduate students and nearly 2,000 graduate students. Nearly 100 different nationalities are represented in the student body.
John Jay College is considered a "commuter college"; all students reside at home. Ninety-three percent of its students are in-state students.[citation needed] Many graduate students come from out of state and often live in the City College dorm called the Towers at City College or Educational Housing Services.[citation needed]
The college has a student government consisting of the Student Council, the Judicial Board, and various student organizations known collectively as "Clubs".
"Club Row" is the nickname in the college for a series of hallways where the student clubs are given space.[4] Student organizations that are given the title "Essential Service" by the City University of New York include The John Jay Times, the school's theater group known as the "John Jay Players", and the campus radio station known as WJJC.[5]
[edit] Athletics
John Jay College has a number of NCAA division III sports teams which belong to the CUNYAC conference.
- Fall: men's soccer, women's volleyball, women's tennis, men's and women's cross country
- Winter: men's and women's basketball, women's swimming, and rifle
- Spring: baseball, softball, and men's tennis
[edit] Degrees offered
John Jay awards bachelor's, master's degrees, and a certificate in dispute resolution. It also awards, via the CUNY Graduate Center two doctoral degrees. Double majors are prohibited, However double or triple tracking[clarification needed] is permitted in the Forensic Science degree in both the undergraduate and the graduate programs, many of the graduate students in the Graduate Forensic Science program double track.
- Majors
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- Minors
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- Master's
- M.A. - Criminal Justice (B.A./M.A. offered)
- M.A. - Forensic Psychology (B.A./M.A. offered)
- M.A. - Forensic Mental Health Counseling (new)
- M.A. - International Crime and Justice (new) [6]
- M.S. - Forensic Science
- M.S. - Forensic Computing
- M.S. - Protection Management
- M.P.A. - Public Administration (B.A./M.P.A. offered)
- M.P.A. - Public Administration - Inspector General track (National Online Program)[7]
- Doctoral
(at the CUNY Graduate Center)
- Ph.D. - Criminal Justice
- Ph.D. - Forensic Psychology
- Ph.D. - Clinical Forensic Psychology
- Certificate Program
- CUNY Dispute Resolution Certificate [1]
- Certificate in Terrorism Studies Awarded by the Center on Terrorism.
- Postgraduate Certificate in Forensic Psychology
[edit] Notable people
- Alumni
- Dr. Henry Lee (BS '72) - forensic scientist
- Kimberly Amato (MA) - actress and writer
- Petri Hawkins-Byrd (BS '89) - Judge Judy bailiff
- Miguel Martinez (BS) - former member of the New York City Council representing the 10th District in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill areas until his resignation on 14 July, 2009. He pled guilty to three conspiracy charges on July 16.
- Marcos A. Crespo (BA) - New York State Assemblyman representing district 85.[citation needed]
- Eva Norvind (MA) - actress and director
- Imette St. Guillen - a graduate student, murdered in February, 2006, studying criminal justice; a scholarship was created in her name
- Dorothy Uhnak (BA) - writer
- Jennings Michael Burch - Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel "They Cage the Animals at Night" which is a memoir of that period of his life.
- Pauley Perrette Actor, Singer; best known for her role as Abby Scuito on NCIS
- Faculty
- David M. Kennedy, author of Don't Shoot (2011), professor of criminology
- John Matteson - winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for the biography Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
- Kevin Nadal - notable Filipino American professor, comedian, and author. Has been featured on the O'Reilly Factor and History Channel
- Rosalie Purvis - avant-garde theater director and choreographer
- Mike Wallace - co-author of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
- Anthony Carpi- winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 2011[citation needed]
- Administration
- The president of John Jay College is Jeremy Travis. He became the fourth president of John Jay College on August 16, 2004.
- Travis succeeds Gerald W. Lynch, who had been appointed as acting president in 1975, and then was named the third president in 1977. After 30 years as president, Lynch retired in 2004 as having tenured the longest senior-level administration in City University of New York history.[8]
- Presidents
- Leonard E. Reisman, 1964 - 1970
- Donald Riddle, 1970 - 1975
- Gerald W. Lynch, 1975 - 1977 (acting), 1977 - 2004
- Jeremy Travis, 2004 - current
[edit] References
- ^ Nash, Eric P. (2001-12-16). "F.Y.I., New York Times, December 16, 2001". New York City; Hudson River: New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E1DF113FF935A25751C1A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&scp=12&sq=College%20of%20Police%20Science%20DeWitt%20Clinton%20High%20School&st=cse. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
- ^ http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/cuny-john-jay-2693
- ^ "College Search - City University of New York: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - John Jay - At a Glance". Collegesearch.collegeboard.com. http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3852&profileId=0. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
- ^ "John Jay College - The Office of Facilities Management & Planning (Special Projects)". Johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu. http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/facilities/specialProjects.asp. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
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- ^ "International Crime and Justice". Johnjay.edu. http://www.johnjay.edu/academics/3337.php. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
- ^ "Public Administration". Jjcweb.jjay.cuny.edu. http://jjcweb.jjay.cuny.edu/mpa/online/index.html. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
- ^ "York Hails New President; Farewell at John Jay". .cuny.edu. http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/cuny_matters/july_2003/newpresid.html. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
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