Posted Dec. 11, 2001

Scholarship Program at John Jay College

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, one of 20 City University of New York campuses, was founded in 1964 as the only liberal arts college in the nation devoted to criminal justice. It enrolls some 11,500 students and, as a relatively young school, has only some 25,000 alumni. The college lost more than 100 of its students and alumni among the firefighters and police officers who lost their lives at the World Trade Center on September 11.

John Jay offers baccalaureate degrees in fields that range from criminal justice, international criminal justice and police studies to fire science, forensic science and security management. It also offers several masters programs and a doctoral program in criminal justice. Undergraduate tuition for in-state students is $1,600 per semester. While its students may qualify for federal and state aid programs, John Jay has very few scholarship funds of its own.

The $250,000 contribution from Princeton University will allow John Jay to establish a scholarship program to honor the memory of the public service heroes of the World Trade Center attack who received academic training at John Jay. The purpose of the program will be to develop undergraduate researchers, practitioners and scholars in the areas of public service and criminal justice and to help attract superior students to the College. Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit and documented perseverance and dedication in pursuing a career in public service.

Beginning next fall, John Jay will award five scholarships to members of its incoming class and five to currently enrolled students who have completed at least 30 credits. The scholarships will provide $1,000 per semester and will be renewable up to eight semesters as long as the student remains enrolled fulltime and maintains a specified grade point average. Each scholarship recipient will enroll in two courses that are designed to prepare the student for an independent research study related to the criminal justice/public service field. A student whose project is approved will receive an additional $1,000 scholarship for graduate study and the resulting research will be published in a special publication entitled "Justice Scholar." It is estimated that the Princeton contribution will be sufficient to support the program for at least seven years.

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