Welcome
Dear Graduate Student:
On behalf of the faculty and administration, I am pleased to welcome you to the Graduate School of Criminal Justice. We are all excited about your arrival on campus, for each class of graduate students brings to the College its own collective personality and unique mix of talents and interests.
Your graduate career will no doubt be very different from your undergraduate experiences in terms of depth, intensity and structure. We will expose you to the most current literature and research in the field of criminal justice; it will be your task to assimilate this vast array of information to meet your own career objectives. We realize that graduate education is challenging, and demanding and the College will attempt to support you academically and in other ways throughout our time together. Our core courses shall provide you with a solid foundation in the issues, theories, and practice of criminal justice. Through the elective courses, internships, directed studies, thesis, and dissertation, the particular emphasis of your training can be tailored to your own professional interests and career objectives.
I am pleased to say that you will have the opportunity to learn from one of the finest faculties in the discipline of criminal justice. No matter what your area of interest, be it theory or administration, research or practice, I encourage you to explore what our faculty has to offer. One of the most dramatic differences you will find between your undergraduate and graduate education surrounds the closeness of contact you could have with the faculty, administration, staff, and with each other. I trust that in a short time you will come to feel at home at the Graduate School of Criminal Justice.
I wish you success as well as educational fulfillment in your upcoming pursuit. Please let me know if there is anything that we in the Graduate School of Criminal Justice can do to facilitate your success in our graduate program.