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Drafting New “John Jay @ 50” Master Plan
Keynote Speaker: In 2014, John Jay students, along with fac-
Cyrus R. Vance Jr. ulty, staff and alumni, can expect to be part of
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ebrations that will mark the College’s 50th anni-
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the fruition of a five-year master plan, “John Jay
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@ 50,” that will continue the dramatic evolution
Various locations, Haaren Hall of John Jay while keeping faith with its mission
of “educating for justice.”
March 15 7:00 PM The new master plan is currently taking shape
Justice and Injustice under the guidance of a Master Plan Advisory
in 1950s America Council (MPAC) created by President Jeremy
Revolt Against the Cult of Domesticity Travis. With assistance provided by the consult-
Joanne Meyerowitz ing firm of Keeling & Associates, the 32-member
advisory panel made up of students, faculty, staff,
Room 630, Haaren Hall alumni, John Jay Foundation board members and
government partners will be meeting monthly as
March 18 4:00 PM part of a process the President said will be inclu-
The Role of Public sive, transparent and comprehensive.
Travis previewed the master plan during his
Intellectuals and State of the College address on October 21,
Public Institutions in 2009, in which he described five domains of
Times of Global Crisis excellence that will define “John Jay @ 50.” The
Discussion with Jeremy Travis, domains — student success, teaching, scholar-
President, John Jay College, and ship, strategic partnerships and institutional
Bill Kelly, President, CUNY effectiveness — will serve as guideposts for
Graduate Center master-planning discussions, Travis suggested.
“I envision a master plan that reflects our best
365 Fifth Avenue, Room C204/205, thinking, our high hopes and our commitment
New York to excellence,” the President said. “It will paint
a picture of where we want to be and how we
March 22 6:00 PM will get there, and I encourage every member of
Justice and Injustice
in 1950s America
A Case Study of Resistance:
John Jay Honors Students Take Center Stage
The Rosenberg-Sobell Case Film,
“Heirs to an Execution” at High-Profile Criminal Justice Conference
Ivy Meeropol A half-dozen John Jay Honors Program
Room 630, Haaren Hall students spent February 23 – 27 in sunny San
Diego, CA, where they presented their honors
thesis research at the annual conference of the
March 26 9:00 AM
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).
Occasional Series The academic achievers were part of a 44-
on Reentry Research member delegation from John Jay, including 25
(Re)Starting and Stopping: Breaks faculty members.
between Criminal Activity vs. “I am thrilled that such a large number of
Permanent Cessation from Crime John Jay faculty and students are participating
Shawn Bushway in the 2010 meeting of the ACJS,” said Dean
University at Albany for Research James Levine. “This is yet another
manifestation of our ever-expanding research
Room 630, Haaren Hall
agendas and our prominence in the world of
March 27 & 28 Times vary criminal justice scholarship.”
Honors students Sara A. Moharrem, Neethu
The Legacy of Shoah Suresh, Michelle Hershkowitz, Lauren M.
Film Festival and Concert Weidner, Megan Maiello and Timothy J. Luke
Documentary films, lectures and music were sponsored for the trip to the ACJS meeting.
that share the personal experiences of Their presentations focused on topics that
Holocaust survivors. included Rwandan genocide, criminological
For tickets, go to www.ticketcentral.com constructs of religiosity, biases against male
sexual-assault victims, post-mortem homicide
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, Haaren Hall
analysis, characteristics of bank robbers and
bank robbery, and terrorism and interrogation
John Jay to Help DR Upgrade Police Practices
the John Jay community to play an active role in
defining this roadmap for our future.”
A major step in the creation of the master plan
came with the release of a vision statement that
serves as a critical underpinning for “John Jay
@ 50.” Drafted under the leadership of Provost
Jane Bowers, the statement asserts: “As we look
toward our 50th birthday, we honor the college
we are, as we design the college we wish to
become. Our transformation is not finished; we
commit to continuing to pursue innovation and
to following a program of continuous self-assess-
ment and improvement in order to best achieve
our goals and best prepare our institution to
techniques. Maiello also chaired the panel on
“Offender Typologies, Perspectives and Patterns
of Violence.”
“They have been working on their thesis
research with Distinguished Professor Todd Clear
since the end of the spring 2009 semester and
have feverishly prepared their presentations
over the last two months,” said Mady Bribiesca,
the Honors Program Coordinator. “These
remarkable students were among only a small
number of undergraduates to present their work
alongside renowned criminal justice scholars and
practitioners.”
At the conference, Professor Zelma Henriques
of the Department of Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration was honored
as the winner of the 2010 ACJS Outstanding
Mentor Award. Henriques was cited for making
“substantial contributions to the academic/
professional growth and development of
students and other colleagues in the field of
criminal justice,” according to the ACJS.
In addition to the Honors students, at
least 10 other undergraduate, graduate and
doctoral students from John Jay took part in the
President Jeremy Travis (center) met in his office
on February 9 with officials of the Dominican
Republic National Police, prior to a press briefing
at which they unveiled an agreement that will
have the College assist in a variety of police
reforms for the Caribbean nation. John Jay will
help with leadership development and interagency
coordination as well as the drafting of a strategic
vision plan for the future of the National Police.
In addition, said Professor Lawrence Kobilinsky,
Chair of the Department of Sciences, faculty will
study crime scene response and how evidence
is processed, particularly in terms of interaction
between police, prosecutors, pathologists and the
Attorney General’s office. The meeting included
Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin,
Chief of Police for the Dominican Republic; Eddy
Reyes, General Rector of the Institute of Higher
Learning of Police, and General Juan Manuel
Frutuoso Heredia, Director of Police Intelligence.
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March 10, 2010
meet the challenges of the coming years.”
According to the vision statement, the focus
of John Jay education must shift from “transmit-
ting knowledge to producing learning, from
delivering instruction to empowering students to
become co-producers of knowledge.” To achieve
this, the statement says, every member of the
college community must be dedicated to the
goal of student learning. “We will all play a role
in student learning and success — and the more
successful our graduates, the greater our impact
on the world,” the statement says.
Travis has formed master plan working groups
for each of the five domains, with those groups
working with Keeling & Associates to shape
information derived from surveys, focus groups
and town hall-style meetings into “very high-level
goals” that will be presented to MPAC. The goal
is to have a working draft of “John Jay @ 50” by
May, and a final version in place by the beginning
of the 2010 – 2011 academic year. Implementa-
tion of the master plan’s goals would be achieved
by the end of the 2014 – 2015 academic year.
Creation of the master plan coincides with the
launch of the latest Middle States reaccreditation
process for the College, which will be completed
by 2013. These initiatives, along with a plan to
raise retention and graduation rates, are inter-
twined in key respects, college officials noted.
(For more information about “John Jay @ 50,”
and to participate in information-gathering sur-
veys, go to www.jjay.cuny.edu/masterplan.)
Megan Maiello, part of John Jay’s delegation of honors
students at the recent ACJS conference in San Diego.
conference as presenters or discussants.
The John Jay delegation included faculty
and staff representatives from the Departments
of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice
Administration; Public Management; Criminal
Justice; Psychology; Sociology, and Mathematics
and Computer Science, as well as the Criminal
Justice Research and Evaluation Center.
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Four Sites Tapped for Summer Study-Abroad Programs
John Jay students will have four new oppor-
tunities to earn academic credit overseas this
summer, with plans for faculty-led study-abroad
programs in Greece and the Caribbean.
The new offerings and their faculty are:
¶ “Caribbean Cultural Criminology,” taught
by Professors Luis Barrios and Jodie Roure (Latin
American and Latino/a Studies), meeting in Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic;
¶ “Caribbean Literature and Theater,”
taught by Professors PJ Gibson (English) and Dara
Byrne (Communication and Theatre Arts), meet-
ing in St. Georges, Grenada;
¶ “Greek Art and Culture,” taught by Profes-
sor Thalia Vrachopoulos (Art and Music), meeting
in Athens, Greece;
¶ “Popular Music of the Caribbean,” taught
by Professor Peter Manuel (Art and Music), meet-
ing in San St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
Ken Lewandoski, the Director of Interna-
tional Studies and Programs, noted that the
study-abroad programs provide John Jay College
academic credits, and qualify under the Study/
Travel Opportunities for CUNY Students (STOCS)
program, through which participating students
can receive financial aid. More information on
CAMPUS SCENES
A Ray of
Sunshine
In the midst of a frigid Northeast
winter, Orlando, FL, Police Chief Val
Demings brought greetings from
the Sunshine State as the featured
speaker at the annual Lloyd Sealy
Lecture on February 8. A full house
was on hand to hear Demings,
who became the first black female
to head the Orlando department
when she was named chief in 2007.
FACULTY / STAFF NOTES
PRESENTING…
ADINA SCHWARTZ (Law, Police Science
and Criminal Justice Administration) was a
panelist in a plenary session on “Introduction
and Overview of National Academy of Sciences
Report, Strengthening Forensic Science in the
U.S.: A Path Forward” as part of a February 11
seminar on the NAS report on forensic evidence,
co-sponsored in Boston by the Massachusetts
Committee for Public Counsel Services, the
Flaschner Judicial Institute, and the Suffolk
University Law School Center for Advanced Legal
Studies and Macaronis Institute for Trial and
Appellate Advocacy. Schwartz also addressed a
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“These programs are academically rigorous
and designed to enhance a student’s chosen
course of study,” Lewandoski said. The four-
week programs include lectures and discussions,
field trips and presentations by local persons of
interest. Housing arrangements vary from one
program to the next, including apartments, dor-
mitories or living with indigenous families.
All students will be required to attend a pre-
departure orientation, and to share their experi-
ences with the broader John Jay College commu-
nity upon their return, Lewandoski said.
During the recent winter mini-semester,
Professors Robert Garot and Susan Opotow of
the Department of Sociology led a study-abroad
session based in Pistoia, Italy, “History, Memory
and Immigration in Contemporary Tuscany.”
Students had the opportunity to earn up to six
undergraduate credits or three graduate credits
during the three-week program.
The deadline for applying for the sum-
mer 2010 study-abroad program is April 1.
For more information, contact Lewandoski at
212.484.1339, email klewandoski@jjay.cuny.edu.
Community
Spirit
John Jay students who are
members of the Red Hook Public
Safety Corps were recognized
February 18 at a ceremony to
honor the collaboration between
the Center for Court Innovation
and John Jay’s Office of Commu-
nity Outreach and Service Learn-
ing, under the direction of Declan
Walsh (rear, second from right).
Getting to
the Truth
Criminologist and award-winning
documentary film producer Roger
Graef (right) talks about his latest
work, The Truth about Crime,”
following a special screening of
the film on February 23. Joining
Graef on the panel were (from left)
Judge Alex Calabrese of the Red
Hook Community Justice Center and
Professor Peter Moskos of the De-
partment of Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration.
breakout session for members of the bar.
DOROTHY MOSES SCHULZ (Law, Police
Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was
the keynote speaker, at the Atlantic Women In
Law Enforcement conference, held in Stellerton,
Nova Scotia, on October 21.
HOWARD PFLANZER (Communication and
Theatre Arts) had a staged reading of his play
Poetry Class with Serial Killer at the Medicine
Show Theatre in Manhattan on February 24.
The presentation was part of the theatre’s 26th
Annual Celebration of the Spoken Word.
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) was the guest speaker
during the January 15 presentation of CrimCast,
a monthly podcast that highlights criminal
justice issues in the news. She spoke about
the importance of hospice care for offenders
in prison. STACI STROBL (Law, Police Science
and Criminal Justice Administration) was one
of the podcast interviewers. On February 8,
Kimora presented a paper at the Southern Rural
educating for justice
A piazza in Pistoia, Italy, site of the winter session study-abroad program led by sociology professors Robert Garot and
Susan Opotow.
Students Excel in Speech, Journalism
CUNY Speech Contest
Won by John Jay Student
While John Jay honors students were shin-
ing in sunny San Diego (see front page), Vickie
Mishoulam was basking in her own recent
success, having become the College’s latest
CUNY champion by winning the highly competi-
tive CUNY/CLASP Speech Contest.
Coached by her Speech 113 instructor Pat
Iacobazzo of the Department of Communication
and Theatre Arts, Mishoulam won the title on
February 8 at New York City College of Technol-
ogy with a speech on “Stopping Procrastina-
tion.” Each CUNY school that participates in
the competition is allowed only one contestant.
Mishoulam gained her slot by winning the John
Jay Speech Contest last semester against what
was described as very tough competition.
Mishoulam’s victory earned her a medal and
cash prize. In addition, a travelling trophy en-
graved with her name and that of John Jay will
be on display in the Department of Communica-
tion and Theatre Arts for the coming year.
Sociological Association annual conference in
Orlando, FL. Her paper, “The Relevance of the ‘N’
Word in Rural American Society,” was part of a
session on “Emancipatory Pedagogy: Structural
and Cultural.”
BETWEEN THE COVERS
EDWARD SNAJDR (Anthropology) recently
published “Two Landscapes: Comparing Ecology
Movements in Slovakia and Hungary” in the
journal Hungarian Studies. The article examines
the political, cultural and social differences
between Hungarian and Slovak environmental
activism during and after the Communist period.
JOSHUA C. WILSON (Political Science) had
his most recent article, “It Takes All Kinds:
Observations From an Event-Centered Approach
to Cause Lawyering,” published in Studies in
Law, Politics, & Society.
KLAUS VON LAMPE (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) had a paper on
cigarette counterfeiting in China, co-authored
with Anqi Shen and Georgios Antonopoulos
English Major Interns
at Capital Newspaper
Karla Cruz, an English major at John Jay, is
spending a very busy spring semester as an intern
at the Albany, NY, newspaper The Legislative
Gazette. The Gazette covers the New York State
political arena, and its interns serve as staff
reporters, putting in 35 hours of fieldwork per
week in addition to academic coursework in
political science and journalism.
Since joining the newspaper in mid-January,
Cruz has produced more than a dozen articles
on a variety of topics, including the impact
of SUNY/CUNY budget cuts and a proposed
empowerment plan that would allow campuses
to set their own tuition rates.
Internships at the Gazette for fall, spring and
summer semesters are open to college juniors
and seniors with a demonstrated record of
academic achievement. Interns can earn up to
15 credits for fall and spring semesters, or 9 for
the summer session, in addition to receiving a
financial stipend.
Remembering
the ’50s
Editor and publisher Victor Navasky
(left) enjoys a relaxing moment with
Visiting Professor Michael Meeropol and
Distinguished Professor Gerald Markowitz
prior to Navasky’s February 22 lecture on
“Lessons of McCarthyism.” The talk was
part of the semester-long lecture series
“Justice and Injustice in 1950s America,”
conceived and coordinated by Meeropol
and featuring an all-star lineup of scholars
and artists.
of Teesside University in England, accepted for
publication in the British Journal of Criminology.
DOROTHY MOSES SCHULZ (Law, Police
Science and Criminal Justice Administration) has
published her article “Women Special Agents
in Charge: The First Generation” in Policing:
An International Journal of Police Strategies &
Management.
JACQUES FOMERAND (Political Science) is the
author of The A to Z of the United Nations, a
reference work on the organization published by
The Scarecrow Press.
PEER REVIEW
KLAUS VON LAMPE (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) was recently
re-elected for a two-year term as executive
director of the International Association for
the Study of Organized Crime. He also served
as a facilitator at a work group meeting on
international organized crime convened by the
National Institute of Justice in Washington, DC,
on January 28 – 29.