John Jay Magazine (Spring 2011)

John Jay Magazine
EDU CAT IN G FO R JU S TIC E

SPRING 2011
John Jay College

T h e C i T y U n i v e r s i T y o f n e w y o r k
of Criminal Justice
John Jay Magazine

E D UC A T I NG F O R JUST IC E
John Jay College

T H E C I T Y U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K PRESIDENT
of Criminal Justice
Dear friends of John Jay College,
Jeremy travis
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Presidents Letter Lessons Learned: Emergency Management In The Post-9/11 Era President Obama names Professor Carpi As Recipient Of Mentoring Award Students Get A Taste Of Forensic Accounting In John jay-kpmg partnership Learning By Doing For The Public Good Future Lawyers Sharpen Legal Skills In John Jay's Pre Law Program Research & Strategic Partnerships Hong Fellowship An Enduring Legacy For Future Students Help Us Pave The Way To John Jays Future Alumni Worth Noting Alumni Class Notes
This semester, implementation of the Colleges Master Plan John Jay @ 50 began in earnest. The Master Plan is a statement of our shared community priorities, a blueprint that will guide the development of the College through 2014, when we will celebrate our 50th anniversary. We arrived at our new Master Plan through an inclusive process over a nine-month period. This process included a number of large open community gatherings, professional development workshops, targeted meetings with various stakeholders, four surveys focusing on institutional strategy and priorities and the drafting of a new Vision Statement and goals for each of five Domains of Excellence: Student Success, Teaching, Research and Scholarship, Strategic Partnerships and Institutional Effectiveness. These five Domains of Excellence are comprehensive and necessarily interrelated, reflecting the breadth and depth of what is required to be a successful institution of higher learning in the 21st Century. To achieve excellence in Student Success, John Jay College needs to create an environment in which students can be successful, not just academically but in all aspects of their lives. The next domain, excellence in Teaching, acknowledges the importance of effective pedagogy and the power of positive student-teacher interactions. The third domain, Research and Scholarship, also includes creative work, and speaks to the Colleges firm belief that excellence in teaching and scholarship are not mutually exclusive goals, and that, in fact, one advances the other. Looking externally, to achieve excellence in Strategic Partnerships John Jay must continue to nurture our relationships with other entities in the pursuit of our shared goals. Finally, our aspiration to excellence in Institutional Effectiveness reflects our understanding that continuous, systematic self-assessment and improvement must become part of our culture if we are to reach our full potential. This issue of the John Jay Magazine reflects our commitment to the realization of these Domains of Excellence. Both the first article, Lessons Learned: Emergency Management in the Post 9/11 Era, and the second, which details President Obamas recognition of Professor Anthony Carpi, speak to our leadership in research and scholarship. The stories on the Pre Law Institute, Community Outreach Service Center and KPMG Internship Program reflect our dedication to student success and strategic partnerships. Our commitment to institutional effectiveness is exhibited in the pieces on the Pavers Campaign and the Hong Scholarship as well as our alumni news. I take pride in knowing that the Master Plan is a living document for the College. And, that our faculty, administration and students participate daily in its realization. The work we have done and the work we have yet to do will prepare John Jay College for a fabulous 50th birthday in four more years. I thank you, sincerely, for all you have done to make this possible.
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President Jeremy Travis Vice President for Marketing and Development Vivien Hoexter Executive Director of Communications & Editor Christine Godek Senior Writer Jennifer Nislow Contributing Writer Peter Dodenhoff Photography Coordinator Doreen Vias Pineda Alumni Contributor C. Sunil Persaud Production Coordinator Kathy Willis Designer JRenacia
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Lessons Learned:
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Emergency Management
in the Post-9/11 Era
By Jennifer Nislow
John Jay has brought its influence to bear on four points deemed essential for an improved response in the wake of 9/11:
The destruction of the World Trade Center by terrorists on September 11, 2001 was a tragedy for Americans; one that our nation will never forget. In the decade since, however, experts in the field of emergency management have come to the fore with new insights and prescriptions for the handling of both man-made and natural disasters. John Jay has been deeply involved in resolving some of the critical problems identified by post-incident analyses.
Professor Charles Jennings
New Concepts for High-Rise Evacuations

Among the tragedies most often cited about that day was the failure of radio transmissions to reach firefighters and other first-responders who were still inside the Towers when they fell. Although the radios themselves were blamed, it was the buildings infrastructure that caused the problem, according to Professor Glenn Corbett, chairman of the Department of Protection Management and a professor of Fire Science.
in Gaithersburg, MD, a body that investigated the evacuation of buildings on 9/11. If the radio signal cannot be amplified because youre in a steel cage, the messages are lost and we believe that a lot of guys died on 9/11 because they never got the order to evacuate, he said. Fortunately, this critical issue has recently been resolved through a National Fire Code provision that allows local fire departments to decide what kind of radio or communication they want to have in a high-rise, explained Corbett. A fire chief would have the authority to require a signal repeater or signal amplification put in the building. Firefighters and emergency managers have fought for and been successful in changing building codes in other ways, as well, he noted. The addition of wider stairways; better redundancy in fire suppression equipment, such as sprinklers; and other enhancements within the structural frames of the buildings themselves have all been achieved. Yet there is still further to go. As far as codes and regulations go, all those things take forever to actually accomplish, he said. Some of these have gone through, but it took a very, very long time. Weve been fighting these things for ten years and were still fighting for certain issues. High-rise evacuation strategies have also come under review in the wake of 9/11. Professor Norman Groner, a colleague of Corbetts on the Fire Science faculty and on the NIST committee noted that elevators
high-rise building infrastructure, technology, criticalincident analysis and emergency management.
Weve made a lot of leaps and bounds in terms of getting new radios that allow for communication between police, fire and EMS (Emergency Medical Services), but what hadnt been solved was the issue with the high-rise building itself, he said. The Twin Towers had big steel skeletons which, unfortunately, have a habit of swallowing radio transmissions.
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If the radio signal cannot be amplified because youre in a steel cage, the messages are lost and we believe that a lot of guys died on 9/11 because they never got the order to evacuate.
Through the expertise of faculty who have served on investigative panels and committees outside of the College, John Jay has brought its influence to bear on fourpoints deemed essential for an
improved response in the wake of 9/11: high-rise building infrastructure, technology, critical-incident analysis and emergency management.
Corbett has been an active participant in the campaign to improve high-rise building safety through changes in codes and regulations. In addition to testifying before the 9/11 Commission, he was selected as a member of an advisory committee for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Professor Norman Groner with students
President Obama names Professor Carpi

as Recipient of Mentoring Award
By Jennifer Nislow
the NIST committee noted that elevators long prohibited as a means of escape are getting a second look.
long prohibited as a means of escape are getting a second look. Groner published a widely respected paper in 2009 on Situational Awareness Requirement Analysis. Situational awareness is a term that refers to the ability of first responders and decision makers to take in the entire event as it is happening. Groners requirement analysis is a breakdown of the steps needed to ensure that information necessary for situational awareness is accessible. He applied this analysis to the use of elevators while serving on a task force created by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a group that participates in the writing of codes for elevators.
used the elevators, he stated, they would have died. As a result, There was renewed interest in the possibility of using elevators during emergencies, said Groner. It gained some renewed impetus. Improved Technology
Situational awareness was a major problem during the attacks. Nobody in a command position on the ground could have had the same perspective as someone sitting at home, watching the event play out on television. Viewers were better able to gauge the extent of the damage to the Towers and the severity of the fires than were the responders, according to Professor Charles Jennings, a Fire Science faculty member and program director for John Jays Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS). Named for Christian Regenhard, a probationary New York City firefighter who was killed on 9/11, RaCERS, established in 2009, is a research repository and information clearinghouse for the study of responses to disasters. It has published a number of white papers, including Groners requirement analysis for situational awareness. One of the centers goals has been to establish a database for
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Professor Anthony Carpi and President Barack Obama at White House award ceremony
Elevators began seeming like a viable option for egress after 9/11. There wasnt too much interest in pursuing that path until after September 11, said Groner. One of the reasons is that in the South Tower, after the plane struck the North Tower, a couple of thousand people used elevators to evacuate the building from the area above where the second plane impacted.Had those people not
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Professor Anthony Carpi of John Jays Department of Sciences was one of 11 individuals named by President Barack Obama to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring during a ceremony at the White House in January.
I am truly honored and humbled to receive this prestigious award, and very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with outstanding students at John Jay, said Carpi. The real reward is knowing that the mentoring programs weve created have provided the support and resources that our students need to reach their full potential. Each year, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring is awarded to individuals and organizations that play a crucial role in preparing students particularly those from underrepresented groups for careers as scientists and engineers. Candidates are nominated by colleagues, administrators and students from their home institutions. In addition to meeting President Obama during the White House ceremony, winners also receive $10,000 to advance their efforts. A professor of Environmental Chemistry and deputy chair of the department, Carpi joined the Colleges faculty in 1997 after earning a masters and doctoral degree in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University. He completed the research component of his dissertation at the Oak Ridge National
Among the other winners were faculty from Columbia University, Davidson College, the University of Southern California, Yale University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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(Seated: L-R) Students Stephanie Batista, Wesley Hom, and Ishani Batuwantudave, (Standing: L-R) Joy Cohen, KMPG; Dina Vincenti, KPMG; Trustee Richard Girgenti, KPMG; student Felica Mojica, Professor Randall LaSalle, John Jay College; students Ricky Tong, Tin Win Hlaing, and Rolando Sierra
Students Get a Taste of
Forensic Accounting in John Jay-KPMG Partnership

By Peter Dodenhoff
said that KPMGs existing Discover program was retooled to fit Forensic Practice. She, Girgenti and client relationship director Joy Cohen met with economics professor Randall LaSalle over the preceding summer to work out the details of interfacing with John Jay.
management services, corporate intelligence services and forensic technology.

Mentor/mentee relationship building is a key ingredient of the program right from the start. Mentors were selected from among senior associates in different KPMG groups and, Vicenti said, We had more volunteers for mentoring than there were students. One of those volunteers, Colleen Doyle from the Fraud and Risk Management unit, understands the value of such relationships from both sides. She also was an intern with the firm while an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts and served as a mentor herself to at least eight people, including one of the John Jay students. Id definitely do this again, she said. Between the workshop presentations and the mentoring, the Forensic Discover program is as much about career building as it is
six undergraduates majoring in Economics/ Forensic Financial Analysis, and one graduate student from the MPA-Inspector General program got an up-close and personal look at the work of KPMG Forensic.
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory services giant, with 88 offices and more than 23,000 employees in the United States alone, played host to seven John Jay students during the fall 2010 semester as part of its new Forensic Discover workshop series. The interns six undergraduates majoring in Economics/Forensic Financial Analysis, and one graduate student from the MPA-Inspector General program got an up-close and personal look at the work of KPMG Forensic. An arm of the firms Risk & Compliance unit, it assists clients in preventing, detecting and investigating fraud and misconduct, as well as assessing and mitigating their vulnerabilities to such activity. The response of participants across the board KPMG professionals as well as John Jay interns was that the series was a smashing success in its initial offering. The students interest energizes me, and forces us to think about what we do, observed Richard Girgenti, a member of the John Jay College Foundation Board of Trustees, who conceived of the program in his role as Forensic National Service Leader at KPMG Advisory.
Ive been very impressed by the students and how they challenge us. After seeing them in action and working with them in these workshops, Im hoping many students will consider internships here. Hands-on Learning and Relationship-Building
The Forensic Discover series, designed specifically to provide a hands-on, practical learning experience in the private sector, complements students forensic-related academic studies, while exposing them to potential career paths in forensic services. In addition, through the programs mentor/mentee component, students are able to make contacts and build relationships that could help them achieve their professional ambitions. Dina Vicenti, a manager in KPMG Forensic Practice and a 13-year veteran with the firm,
We thought about having students shadow our people, but decided against it, believing that it had less value as an introductory educational experience, Vicenti said. Instead, program planners opted for a package of simulations, fake projects and presentations by KPMG specialists in various areas of Forensic Practice, including anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, fraud risk
Between the workshop presentations and the mentoring, the Forensic Discover program is as much about career building as it is education.
The Forensic Discover series, designed specifically to provide a hands-on, practical learning experience in the private sector, complements students forensic-related academic studies, while exposing them to potential career paths in forensic services.
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Most people who are successful in what we do come from a law enforcement or auditing background. You should be good at reading people, and have a sense of curiosity as well as skepticism.
education. Many students may not be aware of professional opportunities in the private sector, said Girgenti, who launched KPMG Forensic Practice in 1995 after a long career in public service, including service as New York States Director of Criminal Justice and 17 years with the Manhattan District Attorneys Office. Here, workshop participants interact with professionals doing this on a real-time basis.
generally looking for the normal traits of an investigator, noted Michael P. Doyle, a director with KPMG Forensic and one of the workshop presenters. Most people who are successful in what we do come from a law enforcement or auditing background. You should be good at reading people, and have a sense of curiosity as well as skepticism.
Days in the Life

And what exactly do those professionals do? KPMG Forensic is not a private-sector crime fighting outfit. Crime prevention might be more like it. Serving a client base that includes multinational public corporations as well as public-sector entities and not-for-profit organizations, KPMG Forensic emphasizes fraud risk management and integrity monitoring services first and foremost. In todays high-tech, online world, such services can, inevitably, touch on a variety of criminal activities, and often transcend international boundaries. As Girgenti observed, What we do here is very cutting-edge. It also requires a new approach to the work at hand. KPMG Forensic teams are multifunctional units, created case by case and comprising different skill sets: former investigators and prosecutors, accountants, auditors, forensic technology specialists and corporate tax experts, among others. Were
An ability to be quick as well as thorough is also essential. Unlike government cases, we have perhaps six weeks to do our work, not two years, said presenter Claudia Huesmann, a managing director with KPMG Forensic and a specialist in anti-money laundering. With our cases, one size doesnt fit all, so you have to be flexible and adaptable. And you have to mobilize a team quickly, based on the clients needs and our skill sets. Hitting a Curricular Mark
In itself, the Forensic Discover series would be a valuable experience for an interested John Jay student. But, as Girgenti noted, We made sure that this program is consistent
Community service representatives affiliated with the Juvenile Justice Corps
Learning by Doing for
the Public Good

By Peter Dodenhoff
The pursuit of higher education can often be a struggle. Yet at the same time, many students at John Jay recognize that others face far more daunting challenges in their day-to-day lives. Nor are these students content to sit idly by. They have come together under the aegis of John Jays Office of Community Outreach and Service Learning, as volunteers seeking to ease the burdens of others.
I think were tapping into what motivates students to come to John Jay in the first place, said Declan Walsh, the offices director. They come to John Jay to be in public service, and this resonates with them as something that will give them a chance right now to do what their degrees will equip them to do down the road. The accomplishments of the not-yet two-year-old community outreach office and they are both many and varied are the output of a surprisingly small core group of one full-time employee (Walsh), two part-timers and 16 community service representatives who come from the ranks of undergraduate and graduate students. Additional volunteer help is often forthcoming
A lot of students may not be service reps, but they still want to get involved, said Walsh.
(Second from right) Robert Garrett, Managing Partner of NYC Office, KPMG; and President Jeremy Travis with John Jay students
I believe you cant judge others until youve walked in their shoes.
If were put in different situations and help people in different kinds of environments, well be more open to them, more apt to understand them and more empathetic toward them.
from many of the Colleges other student clubs. A lot of students may not be service reps, but they still want to get involved, said Walsh. I think that service learning is important for people from all walks of life, said community service representative Genna Plumitallo, a junior, because life isnt easy and everybody has to overcome some kind of obstacle at one point or another. People sometimes are too wrapped up in their own issues. I believe you cant judge others until youve walked in their shoes. If were put in different situations and help people in different kinds of environments, well be more open to them, more apt to understand them and more empathetic toward them. Becoming a community service representative at John Jay is not for everyone. Students must be full-time, with a grade point average of at least 3.2, and hold U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status. As important, students must be ready and willing to plan, promote and staff events; help build community ties on- and off-campus; work alongside a variety of community partners, and plan and conduct research. Students should be prepared to tackle some of the most nettlesome issues of the day, including homelessness, hunger, breast cancer, domestic violence and prisoner reentry.
projects of the Center for Court Innovation. At the court, community service representatives from John Jay provide mentoring and GED tutoring to low-level offenders. Arias is a believer in the program. They teach you things that you desperately need to know, he said pensively. This program has kept at least one person in this society from committing future crimes, from creating another victim. Community service representative Christina Gonzalez has gone from volunteering at the MCC to an internship with the Center for Employment Opportunities, where she works with probationers and parolees. She is completely sold on volunteerism and community service. Were all human and weve all made mistakes, she said, and if, at the end of the day, theyre willing to take that first step, then Im willing to help them with that. Volunteering is amazing, she continued. Im so glad that I made this decision, and I would
hope that anybody else who has the opportunity would decide to do the same. The MCC program is just one feather in the community outreach offices cap. Walsh reeled off an imposing list of service activities by the relentlessly busy office and its volunteers. There is the annual participation in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to fight breast cancer. Through the Surgi Dolls project, over 120 dolls were handmade and delivered to St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital, where they were given to hospitalized children. For Mothers Day Behind Bars, the office collected items for the women and infants housed in the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. There are activities to mark Martin Luther King Week of Service in February and National Volunteer Week in April. Closing out the calendar year in December is the Hunger Banquet, which calls attention to the worldwide problem of inequitable food distribution and raises money for Oxfam America and the St. Paul the Apostle Food Pantry.
Three hundred hours of participation in this elite group of student activists comes with job training, a $1,000 educational stipend, and memories and experiences to last a lifetime. The positions are funded through the AmeriCorps volunteer program.
The Red Hook Community Court in Brooklyn is the mother ship for the Office of Community Outreach, said Walsh, and the entity through which grant funds are obtained to provide stipends to the Community Service Representatives. The community outreach office works hard to derive maximum benefit from limited resources, serving an array of outside agencies and nonprofit organizations, from soup kitchens and homeless shelters to juvenile court mentoring programs and senior citizen centers. One such mentoring program, operated out of the Midtown Community Court (MCC) in Manhattan, has won overwhelmingly favorable reviews. It is even the subject of a new documentary film written and directed by Amala Lane of John Jays Office of Audio Visual Services. The 18-minute film, Being August: A Second Chance at Self-Definition, focuses on one ex-offender, August Arias, as he tries to build a new life for himself after 20 years behind bars. Arias finds a second chance through the MCC and Times Square Ink, which are
Were all human and weve all made mistakes, she said, and if, at the end of the day, theyre willing to take that first step, then Im willing to help them with that.
Community outreach director Declan Walsh (right) and Nadia Johnson of the nonprofit organization Just Food present a certificate in Hunger and Homelessness Awareness to Krystlelynn Carballo.
Walsh says that if he had to pick one activity, which he is proudest of its the Treats for Troops initiative that is conducted in the fall. In our first year, it was a great opportunity to make people aware that there was a new office here, plus we tapped into a very real need, he said.
Treats for Troops student drive in the North Hall lobby
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The common thread in all that the office does is creating opportunities that provide students with valuable out-of-classroom experiences while cultivating an awareness of community needs. Action, commitment, service and learning are all integral parts of the John Jay College experience, said Walsh.
community service representatives and other student volunteers, including the Veterans Club and the Homeland Security Club, collected several thousand dollars and were able to fill nearly 200 care packages with a variety of badly needed items to send to John Jay students or alumni serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Treats for Troops had been a nonprofit organization that was defunded, so John Jays community outreach office took over the name and the responsibility. There appears to be no shortage of ideas for service; the critical cog in the machine, predictably, is funding. We get calls all the time from outside entities, and unfortunately we cant partner with all of them, Walsh said ruefully. We have to be very strategic in choosing our partners so we can leverage our assets and make the most of limited funds. The common thread in all that the office does is creating opportunities that provide students with valuable out-of-classroom experiences while cultivating an awareness of community needs. Action, commitment, service and learning are all integral parts of the John Jay College experience, said Walsh. It would appear that his young student volunteers are true believers.
Future Lawyers
Sharpen Legal Skills in John Jay's Pre Law Program
By Jennifer Nislow
Canelo is just one of the many students at John Jay whose aspirations have found a champion in Holness and the program she directs, John Jays Pre Law Institute.
Students visit the Midtown Community Court
We are the true participants in helping to develop and cultivate the overall effectiveness of our community, one city and one nation at a time, said Mary Cheng, a community service representative. We are just one branch of a growing tree reaching out to the communities of the world, to serve and to succeed in everything we do.
I am learning a lot from being a representative, said Plumitallo, and I am so appreciative that I was given the opportunity to be involved and represent what I strongly believe in, which is losing myself in the service of others and finding myself along the way. [For more information on the Office of Community Outreach and Service Learning, call 646.557.4820, or e-mail communityoutreach@jjay.cuny.edu. The office also has a Facebook fan page that can be accessed at Office of Community Outreach @ John Jay.]
Peter Dodenhoff is editor of @ John Jay. This article reflects an initiative that supports the Colleges Master Plan.
It was a risk, acknowledged Suleyka Canelo. By applying early decision to George Washington University Law School, the 22-year-old John Jay alumna would, if accepted, be obligated to attend there. Were Canelo not accepted, she could potentially miss opportunities available at other schools. But, not only will she be attending George Washington University in the fall, Canelo won the law schools Presidential Merit Scholarship. Worth approximately $60,000 a year, it will pay for her entire education.
I probably wouldnt have applied early decision if it werent for Vielka [Holness] telling me, you know, theyll consider you, take a chance, she said. I trusted her and I did it.
Launched in 2005 by President Jeremy Travis, the PLI has worked with over 450 students to create individual pre-law advisement plans; over 200 participate each year in its pre-law boot camps.
Holness is a former practicing attorney who served on the faculty and administration of both New York and Columbia universities before coming to John Jay in 2009. When I first arrived, President Travis took me aside and shared with me his vision for the Pre Law Institute, said Holness. It was incredible and I think all the more because it was based on his actual experiences with John Jay students, not some sort of fungible notion making its way through academia because its trendy.
Student Suleyka Canelo
I trusted her and I did it.
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In addition to the boot camps, the Institute also sponsors
Law Day, a full day of workshops with prominent law school admissions deans and jurists
who speak to students through the Samuel and Anna Jacobs Foundation Lecture on the Law and the Legal Profession.
Law Day also provides information

Students at Law Day seminar Vielka Holness, Director of the Pre Law Institute
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. with John Jay students
At least 40 percent of the Colleges entering classes have expressed an interest in going to law school, she noted. First-generation college students, as many John Jay undergraduates are, do not always have access to the extras that traditional pre-law students have, said Holness. They often do not receive the educational counseling that more economically privileged students do, nor do they get the supplemental books or attend the preparatory programs. The institute levels the playing field in a very concrete way boot camps.
genre of memoir writing to help students create a personal statement while honing the writing, reading and critical thinking skills that law schools look for in applicants. Boot Camp II teaches students about argumentation. Within the context of writing and researching a constitutional law research paper, they learn how to identify arguments and distinguish strong ones from those that are specious. Boot Camp III concentrates on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). Students take a diagnostic LSAT and practice various test taking strategies.
No one knew what Boot Camp III was going to be about, said John Cusick, a 20-year-old junior with hopes of attending Fordham, Columbia or New York university law schools. We just took the LSAT right there for four hours, on the spot. Then after, we dissected the entire LSAT, strategies, tools. Being able to be in a position like that, to be able to gauge what I had to work on is really beneficial to me. In addition to the boot camps, the institute also sponsors Law Day, a full day of workshops with prominent law school admissions deans and jurists who speak to
students through the Samuel and Anna Jacobs Foundation Lecture on the Law and the Legal Profession. Law Day also provides information about financing a graduate career and presents a panel of alumni from John Jay who are either currently in law school or practicing attorneys. Those are the things that I think that John Jay students need, said Holness. And they need what I call wrap-around services. They need us to provide academic programs and also programs that would traditionally be considered student affairs programs, ones that really address the building of students professional skills, she said. They need professional development initiatives. We work with [John Jays] Office of Community Outreach and Service Learning to make sure there are opportunities for our students to meet judges and work with them. Todd Beharry, 21, interned last year at the Center for Court Innovation, a nonprofit organization that tests different projects aimed at resolving judicial problems. He obtained the internship through the ministrations of the institute. It was a great experience, he said. I was able to conduct research and interviews with offenders one-on-one. A junior, Beharry would like to attend either New York University School of Law, or Albany Law School. He is passionate about juvenile justice. I just want to help people change, he said. Me, growing up in a tough neighborhood, actually making it to college and pursuing my
career at John Jay, makes me want to help people who are economically deprived pursue opportunities. Canelo, a 2010 graduate, is also passionate about helping people who lived through experiences similar to her own, growing up in a family where violence was a constant threat. In addition to being ranked as a top 20 school, George Washington University also has a domestic violence project that Canelo says she is eager to become involved in.
about financing a graduate career and presents a panel of alumni from John Jay who are either currently in law school or practicing attorneys.
If it wasnt for the Pre Law Institute, I dont know what choices I would have made, she said. It was me coming to see Vielka all the time. She was the one who, when I was studying for the LSAT last summer and didnt like my score, told me the best move would be to wait until I graduated and focus on the LSAT itself.
When Canelo was not studying for the LSAT, she was looking at schools with Holness and working on her personal statement. It just seems like, if I never would have gone to the Pre Law Institute, I would have been led down a totally different path, said Canelo.
Jennifer Nislow is senior writer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. This article reflects an initiative that supports the Colleges Master Plan.
There are three Pre Law Boot Camps, each focusing on a different critical aspect of the law school admissions process. All of the boot camps are four-days long and last eight hours. Boot Camp I uses the
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New Dean, New Directions
Research:
Research & Strategic Partnerships

When Professor Karen Terry was named interim Dean of Research and Strategic Partnerships in 2010, her mandate, in essence, was to make a good thing bigger and better.
Terry, the former executive officer of the doctoral program in criminal justice, took the helm of John Jays Office for the Advancement of Research (OAR) from Dean for Research James Levine, and the modified title she now bears (along with that of interim Associate Provost) speaks to something of a change in direction and what Terry calls an expanded portfolio for the office. An accomplished scholar and researcher in her own right, Terry is widely regarded for her expertise in the area of sex offenses and offenders. She was principal investigator for a groundbreaking national study on the nature and extent of child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic priesthood. The strategic partnerships covered by Terrys new title refer to a variety of collaborations with universities and other entities to develop research, curriculum and programs aimed at educating and training international partners in criminal justice. One such partnership has already been developed to create a new college of criminal justice in Mexico, and a similar project is under discussion with partners in Saudi Arabia. College officials are also working on developing strategic partnerships in China and Russia. The OAR embraces an equally expansive bailiwick on the home front, overseeing the Institutional Review Board, the Office of Sponsored Programs and 12 research centers and institutes. Our focus is on expanding research and scholarly initiatives, Terry explained. We want to provide further incentives for faculty members to do high-quality research, like continuing the Faculty Scholarly Excellence Reward Program. We are hosting a series of workshops on how to get published, which Michael Maxfield will lead, and are upgrading the emphasis on mentoring junior faculty. In addition, we want to promote more collaboration in research, so we have a new Collaborative Research Award Program, with preference given to faculty teams from different disciplines or consisting of junior and senior faculty. Terry and her staff are taking a number of proactive steps to promote the OAR and its resources to faculty members, but thats in addition to the increased foot traffic into the office that she has already noticed. You cant argue with the fact that there are a lot of eager junior faculty here with a lot of great research ideas, she said. Its important that we increase the visibility of the research that is going on here, Terry continued, citing as examples a recent grant that Professor David Kennedy obtained from the federal Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services (a huge coup) and the terrorism research being conducted by a number of faculty members in different disciplines. In addition, John Jay is now home to numerous scholarly journals in nearly every academic discipline, and two of those recently named PhD students as their managing editors Julie Viollaz at the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Delene Bromirski at the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. There is a lot going on, said Terry, and much more that we can be and will be doing. What follows is a small sampling of the scholarly work taking place at John Jay.
Environmental Criminology
Drawn by what he described as the sense of excitement and vibrancy at John Jay, Professor Michael Maxfield brought to the College his expertise in environmental criminology and crime analysis as he began teaching in the doctoral program here last fall. theft, and luggage theft at airports. Along with former Rutgers colleague Ronald V. Clarke, Maxfield is exploring the area of loss mitigation. Its sort of the opposite of crime prevention, he explained. The availability of insurance and other types of compensation undermines peoples incentives to protect their property. For example, an iPhone is wonderful, but its most wonderful for whats on it rather than for what it is. So if its lost, its trivial because everything is backed up and I could get a new iPhone. Those are the features of products and markets that make crime prevention more difficult. Maxfield participates in an international organization called, fittingly, Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis. Each year, the group meets in a different country. Maxfield said he would like to be able to take students to these annual conferences as part of his work at John Jay.
Professor Michael Maxfield
Professor Karen Terry
I have a strong policy interest and John Jay is historically interested in justice policy and crime prevention, he said. Im really looking forward to working with students and colleagues here.
Maxfield, who taught at Rutgers Universitys School of Criminal Justice for 13 years, is the author of numerous articles and books on a variety of subjects in the field. Among his research interests is environmental criminology, a field that examines how crimes are committed and what role environmental factors play in their perpetration. One of the best examples of environmental criminology, is an area called situational crime prevention. Studies done in Florida have identified thefts at construction sites as a major problem in the wake of serious hurricanes, according to Maxfield. Environmental criminologists try to educate builders and other people about how to reduce opportunities for theft, he said. For instance, they might have appliances that are going into remodeled homes just sitting around after delivery, vulnerable to theft. Now we tend to not have appliances delivered until theyre going to be installed. Maxfield and some of his upper-level students are also applying the precepts of environmental criminology and situational crime prevention to problems such as auto
Its important that we increase the visibility of the research that is going on here.
Also on his agenda is a new class for doctoral students on journal publishing. The course would look at how scholarly journals operate, their review process, and how to write and respond to reviews. Maxfield, who has been the editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency for the past two years, said he would use the publication as a lab.
Maxfield hopes to have a PhD student serve as the journals managing editor. I think its going to be a lot of fun, said Maxfield. Im really excited about the journal because after I got my PhD, it was the first place I published an article. To come back as editor many, many years later is a real thrill.
One of the best examples of environmental criminology is an area called situational crime prevention.
Studies done in Florida have identified thefts at construction sites as a major problem in the wake of serious hurricanes.
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Women in Policing in the Middle East

A winner of the prestigious Radzinowicz Memorial Prize, a recipient of the 2008 Richard J. Terrill Paper of the Year Award and a former Fulbright Scholar, Staci Strobl is an outstanding example of the Colleges graduates and the excellence of its junior faculty. Strobl, a member of John Jays Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, is an expert on women in policing in the Middle East. She earned a masters degree in criminal justice from John Jay in 1999 and a PhD from the Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice from the CUNY Graduate Center. Last May, she was awarded the 2010 Radzinowicz Memorial Prize by the British Journal of Criminology for her article Policing Housemaids: The Criminalization of Domestic Workers in Bahrain. The prize-winning article was, in fact, a fortuitous outgrowth of Strobls doctoral research in Bahrain, where she was conducting an ethnography of policewomen. One of the things she noticed was that housemaids or former housemaids in the main, expatriate guest workers made up the majority of female defendants at the local police stations. With further digging, Strobl concluded that this reflected an overall trend of criminalizing domestic worker-related labor disputes and handling a larger socioeconomic problem through policing. Strobls dissertation research, funded by a Fulbright grant to Bahrain in 2005, generated an article The Womens Police Directorate in Bahrain: An Ethnographic Exploration of Gender, Segregation and the Likelihood of Future Integration. Published in International Criminal Justice Review, the article won the 2008 Richard J. Terrill Paper of the Year Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. I was interested in whether in the future Bahrain would lean towards an integrated style of policing with regard to genders because thats how it started in the West, she said. In the U.S., England and Canada, women started out as police matrons, which was like not really an officer. They later became officers but were again in differential deployments. Today, at least in policy, there is no discrimination about what a woman can do on the job. My question was whether the same trajectory would happen in a country like Bahrain and what would women think about that.
Social Networking
Social Network is a catchphrase that has become all but inescapable since a major Hollywood movie by that name burst into theaters to tell the story of Facebook, perhaps the ultimate social-networking Web site. To a handful of John Jay professors, social networks offer fertile ground for research in far-flung places. There is an underlying structure to the way in which people within discrete populations form connections to one another, a kind of grammar, according to Professor Bilal Khan. Khan, who teaches in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, is part of whats called the Social Networks Research Group (SNRG), which also includes Professors Ric Curtis, Anthony Marcus and Kirk Dombrowski of the Department of Anthropology; Ernest Drucker (Criminal Justice), Douglas Thompkins (Sociology), and Travis Wendel, a doctoral candidate in criminal justice at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Professor Staci Strobl
In the U.S., England and Canada, women started out as police matrons, which was like not really an officer.
What Strobl found was that far from being pioneers or feminists, the female officers she studied were happy to be in segregated units where their cases involve women and children. In fact, those who joined the force in the 1980s and 1990s petitioned to be allowed to wear the hijab while at work, she noted. Until then, women were not allowed to wear headscarves on the job. Wearing the hijab remains voluntary.
Strobl has since expanded her research on the topic to the neighboring country of Oman, where police are also segregated by gender. One seemingly unavoidable aspect of conducting her research, said Strobl, is the need for flexibility. These governments are not very open to researchers. I got lucky in Bahrain, I dont know why or how. I kept thinking they were going to kick me out. But this was my dissertation research, and I pressed on. The Radzinowicz Prize is named after the legendary criminologist Sir Leon Radzinowicz, who was a member of the faculty at John Jay during the 1970s.
fundamental research being done in the sense that what were trying to study is whether these ties have correlations across different types of networks or whether they operate completely independently. According to Khan, there is an absence of concrete data on this phenomenon. People assume they act independently, but they dont, he said. They exert pressure on each other. Thats what I mean by a grammatical rule in the formation of ties. Those rules constrain the type of networks that can form. The research group is also working on a two-year study of the propagation of HIV. With $560,000 in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the research involves generating artificial networks on a computer that mimics the structure of social networks that SNRG has sampled. By adhering to what is known about the propagation of HIV, researchers can seek to explain effects that have as yet only been observed. Were making a computational model that is tuned to make it faithful to what we know, said Khan. Then it is allowed to evolve and is subjected to scrutiny. (For more information about the SNRG research projects and the groups interdisciplinary team of faculty and graduate student researchers, visit www.syrondesign.com/snrg/index_files)
Welcome to Nain, Labrador
The idea is that rather than just doing statistics on a population or a grab-bag of people, you preserve information about how these people are connected, each of their relationships, said Khan.
Supported by a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Dombrowski and Khan, as co-principal investigators, are in the midst of an ongoing study of two communities in the sub-Arctic region of Canada. In Nain, a village in northern Labrador, all of the residents were asked to talk about themselves and to specifically identify their connections to others, according to Khan. For example, who might you go to if you needed to borrow money? Who might you go to if you were looking for traditional knowledge on customs? he said. Theres
For example, who might you go to if you needed to borrow money? Who might you go to if you were looking for traditional knowledge on customs?
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President Obama names Professor Carpi

as Recipient of Mentoring Award
A firstgeneration college student himself, Carpi has personally mentored over 32 students.
Professor Anthony Carpi, student Amora Mayo-Perez, and Professor Marcel Roberts in the laboratory
Hong Fellowship
An Enduring Legacy for Future Students
The
A lifelong learner, Professor Robert J. Hong never stopped educating himself and passing on that knowledge to his students. When he died in 2008 after a long battle with cancer, Hong, who was the Colleges Director of Educational Technology, had become John Jays expert on distance learning and its Blackboard Guru, said Mark Berman, his partner. course called Computer Applications in Public Administration. Those fortunate enough to have taken his senior seminar in the Public Administration major will remember it as a class designed to challenge students with hard cases and questions about ethics in public service. It is a testament to Hongs reputation as an educator that the course was often filled within hours of registration. Robert Hong taught John Jay students for more than 25 years, imparting insights from his studies in architecture, urban planning, ethics and information technology, said Professor Ned Benton, who chairs the department. He also introduced many members of the faculty to online instruction. He was a great teacher, leader and friend. Contributions needed to endow the fellowship came from friends of Hongs and Bermans, as well as family members. He would have been so touched, said Berman. At a memorial for Hong held at John Jay, he noted, a student whom Hong had gotten back on track spoke about how he had tutored, encouraged and mentored her. She was going to become a teacher because of Bob, said Berman. Nothing would have pleased him more.
Robert J. Hong Fellowship will be awarded each year to a student excelling in the undergraduate study of Public Administration.
Teaching was truly the joy of his life, said Berman. Bob wanted to do something that would be a lasting tribute. This is his wish come true.
The Robert J. Hong Fellowship will be awarded each year to a student excelling in the undergraduate study of Public Administration. It will support tuition for one graduate course in Public Administration that may be applied toward either undergraduate or graduate studies. Candidates must have completed 75 credits, with at least six courses in Public Administration, before the fall semester each year. The course, however, can be completed during any subsequent term. Also, the individual must be a Public Administration, Criminal Justice Administration and Planning, or Fire and Emergency Services major. Hong, whose academic background was in architecture and urban planning, taught a range of subjects in the Department of Public Management where he was a longtime member. A visionary who saw how emerging computer technology would become critical in coming years, Hong created and offered a
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Laboratory and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His research focuses on the potential effect of climate change on mercury pollution and the transport of heavy materials in the environment. In addition to being a co-founder of John Jays PRISM (Program for Research Initiatives for Science Majors), Carpi also participated in the creation of the Colleges Math and Science Resource Center, and its science peer mentoring program. A first-generation college student himself, Carpi has personally mentored over 32 students. We are thrilled by this recognition of Professor Carpis work, and, more broadly, of the science program at John Jay, said President Jeremy Travis. This award to
Professor Carpi, who has transformed the science program at John Jay and has established strategies aimed at mentoring young scientists, underscores his accomplishments. Among the other winners were faculty from Columbia University, Davidson College, the University of Southern California, Yale University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Four organizations also received the award, including the Grinnell Science Project, Grinnell University, and the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Help Us Pave the Way to

Another project that ACIA has undertaken is the creation of courses in critical incident education that are part of the college curriculum. At John Jay, there is a new senior seminar in critical-incidents analysis in the Fire and Emergency Services major, the Public Administration major and the Criminal Justice Administration and Planning major. The point of the seminar is that the students examine cases from the analytical perspective that weve come to understand to be important, said Benton.
emergency-response studies. They [emergency responders] were stuck basically looking straight up or relying on radio broadcasts and calls, trying to piece together that information, said Jennings. Wireless broadband capability across much of the country over the past ten years has enabled the streaming of large amounts of data from patrol and command centers to first responders, and back again a critical innovation, according to Jennings. Theres been a great thrust to try to improve the ability of decision makers in the field to have awareness of whats going on, he said. Thats created a lot of challenges in and of itself. Theres a whole battle about different technologies and software thats still raging.
John Jays Future

A campaign to raise money for student scholarships through the sale of bricks used to pave the Jay Walk, a campus that will connect John Jays Haaren Hall to its new building on 11th Avenue at 58th Street, has exceeded expectations, according to James Sheridan, John Jays director of development. We had a $50,000 goal for this year, and we are already at over $80,000 for Fiscal Year 2011, he said. It has totally exceeded our expectations. The Jay Walk, rising five stories from the ground, will be created with custom-engraved bricks. Alumni, faculty and staff can purchase a brick to celebrate a graduation, observe a special occasion, in remembrance of a loved one, or to leave a personal mark on the College. Each brick will cost between $500 for a large one and $250 for one that is standard-sized. In addition to the bricks, commemorative plaques for the trees and benches on the Jay Walk can also be purchased. A bench plaque will cost $5,000; a tree plaque, $1,000. The campaign will continue through Fiscal Year 2012. According to Michael McCann, president of the Alumni Association: The initiative dubbed the Jay Walk by our students was proposed by the Alumni Board to achieve two primary goals: broad-based engagement of alumni and friends of John Jay through personal donations and an enduring expression of the alumni presence in the new facility. The Alumni Board and I are extremely pleased with the initial outpouring of support from all sectors of the John Jay community. Added Sheridan, What the Jay Walk has turned out to be is a great way for alumni, faculty, and staff of the College, for the first time ever, to leave their legacy. It lets them be a part of the new building, of the transformation of John Jay in a way. They can always come back to the campus and have their own little spot. Its a place where they will feel even more at home when they come back.
This article reflects an initiative that supports the Colleges Master Plan.
Professor Ned Benton
The point of the seminar is that the students examine cases from the analytical perspective that weve come to understand to be important, said Benton.
Learning from Critical Incidents

In addition to the Regenhard Center, John Jay created the Academy for Critical Incident Analysis (ACIA) in 2008 with a $175,000 grant from the Dart Foundation. Ned Benton, professor and chairman of the Department of Public Management, served as ACIAs first executive director and now as its council chair. ACIAs current executive director, Victor Herbert, is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Protection Management. The groups aim, explained Benton, is to learn from incidents like 9/11. Members, who come from engineering, emergency management, psychology and other disciplines, examine the dynamics of events and how those dynamics played a role in the final outcome. Last year, ACIA investigated the aftermath dynamics of the 2007 shooting on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. Student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded many others.
When John Jays new building is complete, he added, students in a new course called Decisions in Crisis will have the opportunity to use an emergency-management simulator. Students will be given just enough information to make decisions as if they were first responders, commanders, journalists and others who would be involved in the event. They are asked to consider ethical issues, command issues, communication and media. Then, the class plays the next period of time in the incident and students get to see which of their decisions worked, and which did not.
What we expect this is going to do is help develop leaders in criminal justice and emergency management, criminal justice and public management to become better at sizing up situations and making decisions particularly when there is an irregular event.
On behalf of John Jay College, we would like to thank and acknowledge the Founding members, those who have given to fund the Jay Walk as of January 31, 2011.
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We studied how a community comes back together and how memorialization, for example, plays a role in that, said Benton.
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Emergency Managers Working Together

Among the great achievements in emergency management, or at least the operational side of the field, has been the implementation of the National Incident Management System
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Students Get a Taste of Forensic Accounting in
Trustee Richard Girgenti with student Ishani Batuwantudave
John Jay-KPMG Partnership

What it does is tie together not only the federal governments response to disasters, but state and local authorities under one system whose language and organization everyone understands.
Just the whole series of relationships people have between agencies and the need for them to practice, to work together, to interact on a routine basis, make them more effective in an emergency, whether they are practicing for a flood, hurricane or terrorist attack, said Jennings.
It is probably one of the big incident command advances to come out of 9/11, stated Corbett. On that note, there has been a trend since 9/11 toward the all-hazard approach, mentioned Jennings. The thought behind the concept is that preparedness or prevention can be useful for more than one type of emergency. There has been some discussion, he noted, about the structural reinforcement of buildings around the issue of earthquakes and whether they give any benefits in terms of an increased resistance to a blast.
Just the whole series of relationships people have between agencies and the need for them to practice, to work together, to interact on a routine basis, make them more effective in an emergency, whether they are practicing for a flood, hurricane or terrorist attack, said Jennings. Agencies that are used to working together, they know how to communicate, those things are very important for improving preparedness for all kinds of events. The pendulum has moved more toward this kind of approach.
LaSalle said of the Forensic Discover series. Through a program like this, theyre finding out that what they hear in the classroom isnt purely academic, but is real-world relevant. I also wanted students to see people enjoying their jobs and being successful at them. In that respect, certainly, we hit the mark.
Girgenti echoed LaSalles assessment, saying, Our partnership with John Jay has been one we value very much so much so that a spring session of the Forensic Discover series is about to get underway, this time with nine John Jay undergraduates in the mix. Based on a formal assessment undertaken by KPMG and informal feedback from the initial participants, some tweaking of the program is to be expected, but no major restructuring.
with the academic program at John Jay. Professor LaSalle, who coordinates the Economics major specialization in Forensic Financial Analysis, agreed that it did just that. I have to admit I had mixed feelings going in, he said. I was thinking, I hope this meshes well with the curriculum I designed. Then I got there and I found out were doing all the right things with our program. I wouldve liked for our students to get some real-case engagement through this program, he continued, not made-up stuff and simulations, but KPMG has very strict rules about confidentiality. Still, its comforting to know that our curriculum is on-point. The relationship between KPMG and John Jay proved to be a really great marriage, La Salle observed. Instead of setting up walls around ourselves, were reaching out to the professional community and theyre reaching out to us. That relationship actually goes beyond the Forensic Discover program, he added, noting that Carrie Malachowski, a director with KPMGs Risk Management unit and an anti-money laundering specialist, is currently teaching as an adjunct faculty member at John Jay.
Dowtown building plans are reviewed in Professor Corbetts class
(NIMS), maintained Corbett. A common protocol for all emergency workers at the scene of a disaster, NIMS was created by Presidential Directive under President George W. Bush in 2003 and unveiled by the Department of Homeland Security the following year. It outlines a standard structure called the Incident Command System that has five functional areas command, operations, planning, logistics and finance/administration. What it does is tie together not only the federal governments response to disasters, but state and local authorities under one system whose language and organization everyone understands, said Corbett. Up until 9/11, we had been using incident management and incident command, but there had been different versions of it in different parts of the country, for all intents and purposes.
Ultimately, as Girgenti told students at a wrap-up session before presenting their certificates of completion: Learning can be fun. And, I hope you dont feel youre the only ones who have benefited from this. We have, too. You challenged us and gave us a lot to think about.
For more information on KPMG Forensic, visit www.kpmg.com/US/en/WhatWeDo/Advisory /risk-and-compliance/forensic/. For more information on John Jays Economics major and its concentrations in Economic Analysis, Investigation of Economic Crimes and Forensic Financial Analysis, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu/academics/1613,php.
Peter Dodenhoff is editor of @John Jay. This article reflects an initiative that supports the Colleges Master Plan.
The best experiences for students are sometimes those outside the classroom,
Our partnership with John Jay has been one we value very much so much so that a spring session of the Forensic Discover series is about to get underway, this time with nine John Jay undergraduates in the mix.
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Alumni Worth Noting

Domenech, 48, will oversee a staff of 174, including 118 deputy sheriffs, and a $16 million annual budget.
attacks, he led the agencys effort to rebuild its operation when its World Trade Center offices were destroyed.
In 2004, Domenech became the BATFs first-ever Latino Deputy Director. After blowing the whistle on financial improprieties, Domenech was demoted in 2007. He currently serves as Special Agent in Charge of BATFs Washington, DC, Field Division. His whistleblower experience, however, has simply reinforced his belief that management has a duty to protect taxpayers, he told the New York Daily News. Mayor Bloomberg has provided me with an incredible opportunity to serve the city where I grew up, said Domenech, who was raised in Richmond Hill, Queens. The Sheriffs Office is often the unseen hand in the administration of justice in New York City and I look forward to working with the incredible team in place at the Sheriffs office to carry out that mission. The position of sheriff dates back to 1626. Another notable New York City Sheriff was New York Governor and Democratic Presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith, appointed in 1916. Among its responsibilities are the enforcement of Orders of Protection in domestic-violence cases; the apprehension of parents delinquent in child support; and the payment of debts in civil cases. The sheriff also makes sure that the mentally ill under court order to receive treatment are brought to the appropriate facilities, enforces evictions and seizes personal property in private litigation matters. Domenech, 48, will oversee a staff of 174, including 118 deputy sheriffs, and a $16 million annual budget.
Alumni Worth Noting

Susan (Umstetter) Shankles (BS 79)
Superintendent of the Tucson Police Department Crime Lab
When Susan (Umstetter) Shankles (BS 79), Superintendent of the Tucson Police Department Crime Lab, first became interested in science, she, like most people at the time, hadnt ever heard of the phrase forensic science. When someone from John Jay came to my high school to market the program. I was hooked right then and there, and Ive been hooked ever since. She started her studies at John Jay in 1975 at a time when women in the sciences were rare. When she graduated, her first job was as a lab technician in the Suffolk County Crime Lab where she had done an internship as part of the undergraduate curriculum. It was at a time when women werent chemists, she recalls. So, when she heard about a job at a water lab in Nassau County, she took it and was able to do some real chemistry. A John Jay connection gave her very first job as a criminalist. Dr. Harold Harris, who was head of the NYPD crime lab at the time, also taught at the College. When we were graduating, he told us that if he had any openings, he would let us know. And he did. She stayed at the NYPD Crime Lab for more than four years and then returned to the Suffolk County Crime Lab this time as a forensic scientist and spent four years there before heading west. In Tucson, Shankles literally had to start over. Her first job at the Tucson Police Department Crime Lab was that of lab technician. Within 10 years I became the lab director. I had the right credentials and the people here were very good to me, so I didnt stay in the technicians job very long. With a staff of 31 including one sworn officer, Shankles oversees a full-service crime lab. We offer all disciplines including DNA analysis, drug analysis, arson and explosives, firearms and fingerprints. We even offer computer forensics, which is our newest one. Its fledgling, but it is a growth area. Our one sworn officer on the staff is in computer forensics and the thinking behind that is that he has the ability to go out and conduct search warrants.
Edgar A. Domenech (BA 84 )

New York City Sherriff
The position of New York City Sheriff might not be the most high-profile post in municipal government, yet it is one that is so important to the well-being of the citys residents, particularly to those most vulnerable, that only a seasoned law-enforcement veteran will do.
Enter Edgar A. Domenech (BA 84), the citys 117th sheriff, appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in December 2010. Domenech has served for 25 years with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. As Special Agent in Charge of the New York City field division during the September 11
In February 2009, a report from the National Research Council (NRC) found serious deficiencies in the nations forensic science system. One of its recommendations was that forensic science labs be required to be accredited. Shankles is justifiably proud that the Tucson Police Department Crime Lab has been accredited since 1993 and is in compliance with just about everything in the report. But one recommendation of the NRC that labs not be a part of a law enforcement organization Shankles says will be difficult to implement. The work needs to be done in a timely manner. So to have it go through a state lab or regional labs around the country would mean the work would go into a queue waiting for results. The report was alluding to a bias and I disagree with that. I think that people who work in crime labs are scientists, mostly civilian, and I dont believe there is a bias in the work they do at least not here. Its a pleasure to work with the people here both in the lab and in the department. Theres a mutual respect for what each of us brings to an investigation. Recalling how Professor Emeritus Peter De Forest and Professor Nicholas Petraco of the Department of Sciences were instrumental in her career, she notes, My John Jay education really made a difference. When I got started in the field, it was very specialized and crime labs were manned by cops who didnt really have degrees in science and who didnt know the scientific method. Hiring people with this specific knowledge and civilianizing the labs upped the caliber of the work. After 31 years in the field, Shankles is still passionate about forensic science. You feel good about what you do every day.
When someone from John Jay came to my high school to market the program, I was hooked right then and there, and Ive been hooked ever since.
Connect and Reconnect @ John Jay: 2011 Reunion for All Alumni
President Jeremy Travis and Alumni Board President Michael F. McCann, BS 74, JD invite alumni, faculty and staff to the 2011 Alumni Reunion. We will celebrate the Milestone Classes -- 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991, 1986, 1981, 1976, 1971 & 1966 and present the Endowed Alumni Scholarship, the Distinguished Faculty Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award
Please join us at the College on April 12, 2011, 6:00 9:00 PM

Tickets: Single $35, Double $60, Students $25 Special Rates available for Jay Walk donors For more information and tickets e-mail: jkemp@jjay.cuny.edu or call 212.237.8547
With a staff of 31 including one sworn officer, Shankles oversees a full-service crime lab.
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Toni I. Agurs, BA 10, recently began pursuing a masters degree at Metropolitan College of New York, majoring in Emergency and Disaster Management. Jamelle D. Alexander, BA 05, a police officer with the Newport News, VA, Police Department since 2007, recently transferred to detective duties. John P. Blancart, BA 09, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army after graduating from John Jay. He serves as a platoon leader for a Personnel Parachute Pack Platoon within an Aerial Equipment and Supply Company (Airborne) of the 82nd Sustainment Brigade. William J. Bruder, BS 77, moved to Virginia in 2010, after having retired from Verizon in 2007. Vu T. Cam, MA 06, is an immigration enforcement agent with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Ashley D. Cannon, MA 06, was recently promoted to director of public policy at the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City. She joined the Crime Commission in 2008 as its associate program director. John W. Casares, BS 98, is a major with U.S. Army. He recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq as a transition team chief responsible for training Iraqi security forces along the border with Iran. William A. Curtis Jr., BS 08, completed his masters degree in criminal justice at Boston University, Metropolitan College, in October 2010. He has been accepted to Capella University, where he will pursue a PhD in public safety. John M. DeMaggio, BS 75, had his article, Mitigation of Terrorist Effects on Victims Motivation, published in the August 2010 edition of The Colloquium, the online periodical of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center (COIN Center at the Combined Arms Center). Robert C. DeMarr, BS 08, is working as a uniformed fire alarm dispatcher for the FDNY, currently assigned to Manhattan. He was recently elected treasurer of the Uniformed Fire Alarm Dispatchers Benevolent Association. Gregory V. Esposito, BS 06, earned his JD degree in 2010 from Touro Law School, and was named the 2010 Graduation Class Orator. William J. Flynn, MA 94, retired as a captain from the New Brunswick, NJ, Police Department in 2005 and is now an assistant professor of criminal justice at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, NJ. His most recent publication, Police Responses to Criminal and Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century, will be published this year in the anthology Juvenile Justice and Delinquency. Sharolyn (Jennings) Hahn, AS 72, graduated as a medical assistant, and was valedictorian of her class. She was also the valedictorian of her nursing school class when she received her RN. John Jay was a great school, she said, and encouraged others to provide more information about personal and career developments. Timothy J. Horohoe, MPA 07, earned his second masters degree, an MA in Criminal Justice, from SUNY Albany in 2010. An adjunct faculty member at John Jay as well as an NYPD sergeant, he was the recipient of the 2009 Eliot Lumbard Scholarship, a competitive, year-long fellowship. Jamie (Nadler) Jennings, BS 03, is currently working as an attorney for the Office of Legislative Services in Trenton, NJ. In 2007, she earned her JD degree from Seton Hall Law School. Sedeke M. Kamara, BA 04, is a New York City correction officer. Maria J. Kinigopoulos, BA 03, is employed by the U.S. Department of Justice as an intelligence analyst. Trina M. Knox, BA 96, currently lives in the Atlanta, GA, metro area, where she works as an eighth-grade teacher. George F. Kurtyka, MA 90, retired in 2008 after serving over 30 years with the Derby, CT, Police Department, the last 20 years in the Detective Division. He was elected to the City of Derby Board of Apportionment and Taxation, serving from 2007-2009, and is currently a member of the Derby Board of Education. Christine M. (Puma) Lawton, BS 03, is a paralegal and new paralegal mentor with the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Kevin C. Mann, BS 94, is working with the U.S. Department of State. Tyler L. Mayfield, BA 96, is currently working for the New York City Human Resources Administration as a fraud investigator II. Kevin A. Nwaifejokwu, MA 08, is an IT associate at Queensborough Community College. Diane Persaud, BA 03, manages the closing/legal department for The Money Source Inc., a multistate mortgage lender. Alan G. Petersen, MA, 87, was promoted to crime scene analyst II with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. In addition to his masters in Criminal Justice from John Jay, he holds an MS in Forensic Science from George Washington University. Andrew J. Phelps, BA 08, has been accepted to the Naval Postgraduate School in its Center for Homeland Defense/Security Master program. Michael E. Rivera, MA 02, is currently the assistant director/clinical supervisory for Integrity House of Newark. Clarabelle A. Rodriguez, BA 10, was featured in a New York Times article on November 28, 2010, A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web. As a result of the story, which examined her experience as the victim of online fraud, Google changed its ranking algorithm. Wendy M. Rodriguez-Figueroa, BA 08, began a new position in July 2010 as an investigator for the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board. Marie Simonetti Rosen, CUNY BA '82, recently retired from John Jay College after 37 years of service. She is particularly proud of her leadership role as publisher of Law Enforcement News, a national newspaper for police produced by the College from 1975 to 2005. Sam Rozenberg, BA 09, was recently hired as a security specialist for progress energy in St. Petersburg, FL, where he oversees security employees and plants, and conducts risk assessments throughout Florida. Robert W. Schuchman, MA 85, retired as senior probation officer from Suffolk County Probation in 2002. He received his LPN certification in 2006. Susan Aileen Natanya Siegel, BA 76, worked in social services, from the developmentally delayed to family and children services, for about 25 years. She taught alternative culinary skills in social service agencies after graduating from the Natural Gourmet Chef Program.
Alumni Class Notes

Royell C. Sullivan, BA, 10, is an administrative assistant for regulatory affairs at Hunter College. Cristobal Tong, BA 10, is working as a paralegal in a real estate firm, and has applied for law school admission in spring 2011. Carmen R. Velasquez, BA 84, a civil court judge in Queens County, recently received the highest honor given out by the Government of Ecuador for being the first Ecuadoran elected as a judge in the United States. She also received an award from the Neighborhood Housing Services for Northern Queens, and was the subject of a City Council proclamation from Council member Julissa Ferreras. Karen A. White, BA 00, was recently elected to the executive board of the New York City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, as the MSW student member. A second-year graduate student at Yeshiva University, she expects to complete her studies in May 2011. Craig J. Williams, BS 10, is working part-time as a public safety officer at Nassau Community College, and is also employed as a security instructor at Hughes Institute in New York. He is applying for graduate school at John Jay. Lawrence M. Zacarese, MPA 08, is the assistant chief of police for the Stony Brook University Police Department. He took his current position after his retirement from the NYPD, and is now pursuing a law degree.
PLANNED GIVING
Everyone can play a part in the future of the College, especially in ensuring the success of future programs and activities. A bequest to the John Jay College Foundation, Inc. will contribute significantly and forever, either toward the John Jay Endowment Fund or in support of a particular program, lectureship or scholarship fund. When formulating your bequest, the following wording is suggested: I give and bequeath to John Jay College Foundation, Inc., New York, NY, $____________ to be added to the principal of the John Jay Endowment Fund, the income to be credited each year in my name. It is as simple as that, and just imagine what your gift will provide for future generations of students who follow in your footsteps.
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