“When you’re in the Senate, you can feel the power. Everything is slow and deliberate and done withgreat intention. But the House is really scrappy and super fast-paced. It’s the voice of the people...

Gun violence in America, seemingly a daily headline in the news media, is the focus of a probing, semester-long examination at John Jay that seeks to shed light on “America’s Gun Epidemic: A Question...

More than 125 scholarship recipients and their benefactors were saluted on Feb. 23 at the annual Champions of Justice reception in John Jay’s Moot Court. There are currently 78 active scholarships,...

Van Jones, the CNN commentator who was a familiar on-air presence during last year’s presidential campaign and election, was honored Feb. 16 as the 2017 Justice Trailblazer by John Jay’s Center on...

Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program Selects 21 Diaspora Fellows to Conduct Projects with Greek Universities New York, NY, March 21, 2017 – Effie Papatzikou Cochran, Professor in the English Department...

Jane Bowers, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at John Jay College, will retire and step down from her position at the end of this academic year, effective August 1. Provost...

Sexual violence remains among the most sensitive, hot-button societal issues, yet all too often, the word “rape” is still uttered only in whispered tones, much as words such as “cancer” and “polio”...

Women Have Not Benefited From Criminal Justice Reform to the Same Extent as Men ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF JUSTICE-INVOLVED WOMEN WILL RESULT IN A FAIRER AND MORE EFFECTIVE SYSTEM MARCH 8, 2017 – NEW...

New York, NY, March 6, 2017 – A new report by the Education Trust that examines graduation rates for Black students ranks John Jay College of Criminal Justice number 3 in the nation among top-...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded John Jay College of Criminal Justice a $4.98 million grant to create the Academy for Security Analysis. The project will provide...