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September 16 12:30 PM
The 4th Amendment in the
21st Century: What Does It
Mean? Whom Does It Protect?
A panel discussion in celebration of
Constitution Day. Presented by
the Center on Race, Crime and Justice
Room 630, Haaren Hall
September 23 2:00 PM
Graduate and Professional
School Fair
Presented by the Career Development
Center, the Pre-Law Institute and the
Office of Graduate and Professional
Studies
RSVP by logging on to John Jay Careers
Online at www.jjay.cuny.edu/careers
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby
September 25 7:30 PM
Music for Humanity
A narrated concert in memory of Wall
Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
September 28 3:30 PM
Fall Faculty Meeting
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
September 29 7:30 PM
Sound + Vision: At War
A multimedia performance of wartime
images from Afghanistan and Iraq
Photojournalist Chris Hondros
Musical Director Kenneth Hamrick
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
October 4 3:00 PM
Graduate Open House
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
RSVP: 212.237.8863
Through a Lens, Smartly:
Virtual Tour Gets Ready for Online Debut
John Jay College already has a magnetic ap-
peal for students interested in a justice-themed
education. That appeal is only likely to increase
with the anticipated rollout of a new video tour
hosted by two telegenic young undergraduates.
The six-and-a-half-minute video tour, which
will be launched on the John Jay website in late
September, will also be accessible via Facebook,
YouTube and iTunes University. It is the result of a
collaborative effort involving the College’s Office
of Marketing & Development and the Office of
Enrollment Management together with WideIris
Productions, which has created a number of top-
flight videos for the College in the recent past.
Shot in numerous on- and off-campus venues,
from the Lloyd Sealy Library to the heart of Times
Square, the video features Christopher Balda and
Devynn Brooks, who survived a two-day audition
process en route to becoming the new faces of
John Jay.
“Had I been a year younger, maybe I could
have met some of the people who based their
choice to go to John Jay on this video,” said
Balda, a senior majoring in political science.
“John Jay College has given so much to me, I’m
glad that I can give something back.”
“I feel really excited and honored,” Brooks
said of her involvement in the project. “Knowing
that I can help with the choices a student makes
about his or her college career is a really great
History is Made:
First All-Baccalaureate Class Settles In
The two-day freshman orientation program
held August 18–19 marked a significant
milestone for John Jay, as the College welcomed
its first-ever all-baccalaureate freshman class.
A record 85 percent of the more than 2,000
enrolled freshmen attended the orientation,
along with 433 parents. The College has also
enrolled nearly 1,200 transfer students and 480
new graduate students for the fall semester.
Those students attended separate orientation
programs in late August.
“This is a historic moment for the College,”
said President Jeremy Travis. With the enrollment
of the first-ever all-baccalaureate class, the
College has reached a pivotal milestone in its
transformation into a senior college in the City
University of New York system.”
The new John Jay students will benefit from
the College’s “improved student services,
renowned faculty scholars and re-imagined
academic programs,” Travis said.
Vice President for Enrollment Management
Richard Saulnier said preliminary data show
a record-breaking 24-percent increase in
baccalaureate freshman enrollment compared to
2009.
Despite Austerity, 20 New Faculty Join John Jay
The start of the fall 2010 semester saw John
Jay welcome 20 new full-time faculty members in
13 academic departments. The newest additions
include specialists to support recently added
majors in Economics, English, Gender Studies
and Global History.
President Jeremy Travis noted that the faculty
hiring was achieved in the midst of a period of
fiscal constraint. “We have placed a priority on
faculty hiring,” Travis said. The “stellar new full-
time faculty…have been credentialed at some of
the leading institutions around the world. Some
have left tenured positions at other universities to
join John Jay. We celebrate their commitments to
excellence in teaching and scholarship, and their
interest in engaging our students.”
The new faculty members, along with their
terminal degrees, granting institutions and areas
of specialization, are:
TOUR GUIDES: Christopher Balda and Devynn Brooks stroll up 10th Avenue toward Haaren Hall to begin the new virtual tour
of John Jay.
feeling.”
The aim of the video, Balda explained, was to
provide insight into the daily life of a John Jay
student as well as the broad spectrum of avail-
able opportunities “to go out and become some-
one significant in life.”
“The reason I think the video can spark inter-
est for prospective students is because it comes
MAJOR DECISIONS: As part of their introduction to the College, incoming freshmen look over the flyers and brochures
describing the array of baccalaureate majors at John Jay.
The orientation event capped a four-year
process of phasing out associate-degree
admissions at John Jay. Associate-degree students
are now eligible to enroll in two-year programs
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Isaac Xerxes Malki, assistant professor, DPhil,
University of Oxford (economic and social
history)
ART AND MUSIC
Claudia Calirman, assistant professor, PhD, CUNY
Graduate Center (Latin American art)
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Michael Maxfield, professor, PhD, Northwestern
University (environmental criminology)
Sung-suk Violet Yu, assistant professor, PhD,
Rutgers University–Newark (crime prevention/
analysis)
ECONOMICS
Mathieu Dufour, assistant professor, MA,
University of British Columbia (international
financial economics)
from the mouths of two down-to-earth regular
New Yorkers,” he said.
The entire experience was “a blast,” Brooks
said. “The video was shot in about three to four
days, and I wished it could have gone on longer.”
Once having enjoyed the video tour, viewers
are encouraged to sign up as a John Jay VIP by
logging on to mykeytojjc.com
News and Events of Interest
September 15, 2010
in criminal justice, forensic science and forensic
financial analysis through the CUNY Justice
Academy, a consortium effort involving John Jay
and six CUNY community colleges.
ENGLISH
Dale Barleben, assistant professor, PhD, University
of Toronto (literature and law)
FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Silvia G. Dapía, professor and department
chair, PhD, University of Cologne, Germany
(Romance languages/philosophy of language)
GENDER STUDIES
Brett Stoudt, assistant professor, PhD, CUNY
Graduate Center (social/personality
psychology)
HISTORY
Sara McDougall, assistant professor, PhD, Yale
University (late-medieval French history)
LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINA/O STUDIES
Isabel Martinez, assistant professor, PhD,
Columbia University (sociology of immigration)
Brian Montes, assistant professor, PhD,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(anthropology)
Lisandro Pérez, professor and department chair,
PhD, University of Florida (ethnicity and
immigration/Cubans in the U.S.)
Belinda Rincon,, assistant professor, PhD, Cornell
University (American ethnic literature)
PHILOSOPHY
Jonathan Jacobs, professor and director of the
Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, PhD,
University of Pennsylvania (philosophy of law
and punishment)
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Jennifer Rutledge, assistant professor, PhD,
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
(comparative politics/public policy)
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
Daniel Feldman, associate professor, JD, Harvard
Law School (oversight and investigation/public
law and policy)
Denise Thompson, assistant professor, DPA,
Pennsylvania State University (network analysis
in disaster management)
SCIENCE
Sandra Swenson, lecturer, EdD, Columbia
University Teachers College (student learning/
pedagogical practice/curriculum design)
SOCIOLOGY
Carla Barrett, assistant professor, PhD, CUNY
Graduate Center (sociology of punishment/
race and law)
Career Development for Students Starts on Day One
No mere job-placement program, John Jay’s
Office of Career Development Services provides
a balanced variety of on-site and online services,
educational and professional development
programs and resource materials to help students
and alumni make a successful transition from
college to one’s chosen profession.
The office, led by Director Will Simpkins,
offers everything from comprehensive career
advisement to internships and cooperative
education to guidance on professional dress and
business etiquette. “There are three substantive
areas that any career development center needs
to focus on: career advisement and graduate
school planning, internships and cooperative
education, and networking,” said Simpkins,
whose staff of 15 also runs the sprawling Career
Fair and Job Fair held during the fall and spring
semesters.
Career Development Services, which
includes the College Opportunity to Prepare
for Employment (COPE) program, has been
undergoing a dramatic makeover since Simpkins
arrived at John Jay earlier this year, after nine
years in various student affairs positions at
Barnard College. He said he was drawn to John
Jay by the College’s public-service focus.
“Everyone wants a job that challenges
them,” he said, “and for me the challenge is
blowing a student’s mind with the wide range of
opportunities available to them via John Jay.”
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
Panelists enjoy a lighter moment during a discussion of a very serious topic, at the September 1 Book & Author presenta-
tion that featured Jessica Stern (center), author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror, her candid and intense examination of an
unsolved brutal rape and its aftermath. The discussion was moderated by Professor Katie Gentile, Director of the John Jay
Women’s Center (left), and also included commentary by Professor Susan Herman of Pace University, a former executive
director of the National Center for Victims of Crime.
FACULTY / STAFF NOTES
PRESENTING…
R.TERRY FURST (Anthropology) presented a
paper titled �Buprenorphine (Suboxone) Patients
in a Harm Reduction Setting: An Exploration of
the Correlates Leading to Suboxone Patients
Cycling In and Out of Treatment, at the annual
meeting of the Society for the Study of Social
Problems, held in Atlanta, GA, on August 15.
He was also one of the authors of a poster
presentation, “Buprenorphine Plus Syringe
Access: An Effective Harm Reduction Strategy, at
the International AIDS conference held in Vienna,
Austria, on July 21
BETWEEN THE COVERS
GREG DONALDSON (Communication and
Theatre Arts) had his latest book, Zebratown:
The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White
Single Mother in Small-Town America, published
in August by Scribner, an imprint of Simon &
Schuster.
ROBERT GAROT (Sociology) had his book, Who
You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School
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Dressed for success, John Jay students navigate their way past table after table of potential employers at a recent Job Fair.
Among the “most exciting” developments for
Career Development Services this year, Simpkins
said, have been new drop-in counseling hours
for students; a growing series of workshops and
panels on professional and life skills, with 30
workshops scheduled for the fall semester alone;
a weekly e-mail update to all John Jay students;
and on the Streets, published by NYU Press.
LIOR GIDEON (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) is the author of Substance
Abusing Inmates: Experiences of Recovering Drug
Addicts on their Way Back Home, which was
published earlier this year by Springer.
MANGAI NATARAJAN (Criminal Justice) is the
series editor of the three-volume Library of Drug
Abuse and Crime, released recently by Ashgate
Publishing. The series includes Drugs of Abuse:
The International Scene; Drugs and Crime; and
Drug Abuse: Prevention and Treatment.
PEER REVIEW
YÜKSEL SEZGIN (Political Science) was named
as a 2010-2011 Research Associate in the
JANE KATZ (Health and Physical Education) represented John Jay at the June 3 global launch of the
“Exercise is Medicine” initiative, held in Baltimore, MD, by the American College of Sports Medicine.
educating for justice
greater opportunities to bring alumni and
students together, and the planned launch of the
College’s first “clothing closet” for job-seeking
students.
The engine that drives Career Development
Services — “the thing that helps us do what we
do,” said Simpkins — is John Jay Careers Online,
a two-year-old, custom-designed software
package that he described as a social networking
site combined with a job board. Through the
portal, students and alumni alike can view
available internships, full- and part-time jobs
Women’s Soccer Returns to
the John Jay Sports Universe
The John Jay Athletics Department will begin
the 2010-2011 academic year with the return of
a women’s soccer team.
The newest varsity sport on campus will give
John Jay 13 intercollegiate teams, including
men’s baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis and
cross-country; women’s softball, basketball,
swimming, volleyball, tennis and cross-country,
and co-ed rifle.
“We are very excited to bring a women’s soc-
cer team to John Jay,” said Director of Athletics
Dan Palumbo. “It has been a very desirable sport
on the campus for a long time.”
The team will be led by head coach Kamal
Haruna, a John Jay alumnus who played for the
men’s soccer team from 2006 through 2008 and
was an assistant coach of the team last year.
Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard
Divinity School. Sezgin, who will also serve as
visiting assistant professor of women’s studies
and religion and the social sciences, will conduct
research for a study titled “Women’s Rights in
the Triangle of State, Law and Religion.”
SAMANTHA MAJIC (Political Science) won the
2010 Best Dissertation Award from the Women
and Politics Section of the American Political
Science Association. The awards committee
praised Majic’s dissertation — “Protest By
Other Means? Sex Workers, Social Movement
Evolution, and the Political Possibilities of
Nonprofit Service Provision” — as an original and
incisive work that “shed light on some of the key
issues at play at the intersection of gender and
politics.” [Corrected from previous edition.]
and volunteer opportunities, as well as set up
counseling appointments and register for events.
Potential employers can post job openings,
request space for job fairs and other events,
review résumés and schedule interviews.
Simpkins stressed, “The office can’t be
successful without a dedicated partnership with
our alumni,” citing the ongoing engagement
with the College’s Office of Alumni Relations.
“Anytime we can put students in touch with
someone who can help further their careers is a
very good thing,” he said.
Student interaction with career development
is not something that should wait until junior or
senior year. “As soon as you come to John Jay,”
said Simpkins, “make an appointment to see
us and start a conversation about your future
plans.”
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“Our goal is to win the conference,” Haruna
said of his squad that includes former high school
players, local club players. “The girls are respond-
ing well to practices and drills, they’re getting fit
and they’re getting excited.”
Haruna described the team as an offense-ori-
ented unit, with great midfielders and forwards,
including team captain Brenda Pitts, a graduate
student. “We’re going to score goals, no ques-
tion about it,” he said.
The new team’s season got underway Septem-
ber 3 at SUNY Purchase. “I’m excited by the chal-
lenge, and so are the girls,” the coach said. “It’s
a new program and they want it to stay around.”
The College previously fielded a women’s soc-
cer team in 2005.
John Jay’s fall sports schedule also includes
cross-country, which began its season on Sep-
tember 4 at the Vassar Invitational in Poughkeep-
sie, NY; men’s soccer, which began on September
1 at Kean University; volleyball, which started on
September 2 at Ramapo College, and women’s
tennis, which got underway on September 1 at
William Paterson University.
The volleyball team’s home court is the Dog-
house, John Jay’s 4th-floor gymnasium in Haaren
Hall. Home field for both the men’s and women’s
soccer teams is the Metropolitan Oval in Mas-
peth, Queens. The tennis team plays its home
matches at the York College Tennis Complex in
Jamaica, Queens, and conference meets for the
cross-country teams are held at Van Cortlandt
Park in the Bronx. For complete team informa-
tion, visit www.johnjayathletics.com.
City Council OKs
Funds for John Jay
Distance Learning
The nascent distance-learning initiative at John
Jay recently got a significant shot in the arm
thanks to $600,000 in earmarks in New York
City’s FY 2011 capital budget.
The funding, sponsored in equal proportions
by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer
and City Council Member Gail Brewer, will be
used to support the ongoing development
of the College’s technology infrastructure,
including the purchase and installation of video
conferencing units, network support upgrades
and communications equipment.
“This will support initiatives that allow the
College to transcend the geographic limits of
the traditional classroom,” said Director of
Government Relations Elizabeth McCabe.