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The New Center for Business Preparedness
John Jay College recently announced the appointment of Thomas E. Cavanagh as Director of the newly established Center for Business Preparedness. Cavanagh comes to the College from The Conference Board, where he was senior research associate and principal investigator for a series of major reports on corporate security and preparedness. According to President Jeremy Travis, "Since 9/11, John Jay has aggressively focused on the changing security imperatives of the private sector and developed a number of programs to meet these needs. The Center will provide another vital resource." The Center will serve as a research hub and clearinghouse for information on best practices, preparedness standards and procedures, and analyses of public safety and corporate security strategies. The first initiative will entail interviewing corporate security executives to determine the extent to which specific preparedness standards have been implemented. The project will also report metrics on corporate procedures for emergency response, disaster recovery and crisis management. The project is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to The Conference Board. Inc. For more information, click here.
It's All About Jobs
Need Quality Personnel
Career Services at John Jay will be hosting its annual Spring Job Fair on Thursday, April 23, 2009. The Job Fair is meant to introduce our diverse group of undergraduates, graduate students and alumni to organizations that are hiring or want to enhance their applicant pools. If there are any John Jay alumni working within your organization who can represent the organization as a recruiter at the Fair, please contact Ms. Crystal Farmer by 5:00 PM on March 15 at cfarmer@jjay.cuny.edu, 212.237.8754 or by faxing the Reservations Form. Please see the invitation for more details. The Fair will be held in the College's gymnasium located at 899 Tenth Avenue (between 58th and 59th Streets) in New York City. The Fair will run from 3:00 to 7:00 PM. Registered recruiters are asked to arrive at 2:00 PM in order to set up.
Looking for Job Opportunities?
To all alumni who are seeking employment, mark your calendars and plan to join us at the annual Spring Job Fair on April 23. See the Events section below for details. Please note: the Job Fair is open to John Jay College alumni and students only.
Alumni Open House in Long Island
Monday, March 2, 2009 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
President Jeremy Travis, Alumni Association President Michael McCann (BS '75, JD), Queens/Long Island Coordinator Suzanne Chiofolo (BA '00), and Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey (BA '75) cordially invite all alumni to attend this open house as part of the Connect and Reconnect Series at John Jay. Refreshments will be served.
For more information and to RSVP, contact Jerylle Kemp, Director of Alumni Relations, at QNSOpenHouse@jjay.cuny.edu or 212.237.8964. Please be sure to provide your full name, degree and graduation year, email address, and the date of the event you will attend.
Nassau County Police Headquarters
1490 Franklin Avenue
Mineola, NY 11501
The Myrna Bain Scholarship Fundraiser
Friday, March 6, 2009 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
The Myrna Bain Scholarship Committee presents an evening of dining, dancing and live entertainment to commemorate the life of Professor Myrna Bain and help establish an annual academic scholarship in her name.
For more information and to RSVP contact Gwen Alexis at galexis@jjay.cuny.edu or 212.237.8400. Tickets are $50. Please make checks payable to the John Jay Foundation.
John Jay College
445 West 59th Street, Multipurpose Room, 2200N
New York City
The Jerry McCabe Fellowship Breakfast
Friday, March 13, 2009 8:30 AM
The McCabe Foundation cordially invites you to celebrate the exchanges between An Garda Siochana, the Irish National Police, and John Jay College. The breakfast will feature guest speaker Sean Aylward, Secretary General, Department of Justice, Republic of Ireland.
RSVP to mccabe@jjay.cuny.edu. The cost is $30.00 per person. Please make checks payable to the John Jay Foundation.
John Jay College
899 Tenth Avenue, 4th Floor
New York City
Water, Our Most Precious Resource
A Celebration of World Water Day
Sunday, March 22, 2009 4:00 PM
The United Nations General Assembly designated March 22 as World Day for Water. This narrated concert will call attention to our international water crisis. Works will include traditional spirituals, gospel and folk music.
Admission is free. Tickets can be acquired through Ticket Central at 212.279.4200 or http://www.ticketcentral.com. For more information about the Performing Arts at John Jay, click here.
John Jay College
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
899 Tenth Avenue
New York City
Book & Author Series
Tuesday, March 17, 2008 4:00 PM
The John Jay Book & Author Series is pleased to present A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff by Richard Firstman and alumnus Jay Salpeter (BA '78). Bruce A. Barket, attorney and member of the Tankleff legal team, will be a panelist. Saul Kassin, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and a leading expert on false confessions, will serve as moderator
John Jay College
899 Tenth Avenue, Room 630T
New York City
Graduate Lecture Series
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The second lecture of the Spring 2009 series is "The New York City Budget Crunch" presented by Dr. Ronnie Lowenstein, Executive Director, New York City Independent Budget Office.
For more information, contact Petula Bailey at pbailey@jjay.cuny.edu or 646.557.4518.
John Jay College
445 West 59th Street, Multipurpose Room 2200N
New York City
Alumni Reunion
Monday, March 30, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Reception
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Dinner
President Jeremy Travis, Alumni Association President Michael McCann (BS '74, JD) and the Alumni Board cordially invite all alumni to return to John Jay for the 2009 Reunion. We welcome all classes and will recognize the milestone alumni who are celebrating their 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 35th and 40th anniversaries. The 2009 Reunion Milestone Classes are 2004, 1999, 1994, 1989, 1984, 1979, 1974, and 1969. Our 2009 honorees are Anthony J. Lamberti (BA ’78, JD) and Professor Karen Kaplowitz of the English Department. All John Jay alumni are welcome.
RSVP to Alumnireunion@jjay.cuny.edu. Please be sure to provide your full name, degree and graduation year, email address and the date of the event you will attend. For more information contact Jerylle Kemp, Director of Alumni Relations at 212.237.8964.
John Jay College
899 Tenth Avenue
New York City
The World Before Racism: A Lecture by Lisa Farrington
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:00 PM
The Department of Art & Music is pleased to present"The World Before Racism," a lecture by Dr. Lisa Farrington, art historian, curator, award-winning author and department chair. This free event will feature stunning works of art from ancient Egypt to modern times. Dr. Farrington will ask and answer such questions as: When did racism begin? Have Africans and their progeny in the Diaspora always been at odds with, or victimized by, western cultural forces? Or is this dichotomy a relatively new phenomenon? What relationship did Africans and Europeans have prior to the onset of racism?
For more information, contact Gael Schatz at gschatz@jjay.cuny.edu.
John Jay College
899 Tenth Avenue, Room 630T
New York City
Graduate Open House
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Alumni interested in attending graduate school are invited to meet with faculty and staff who will be available to discuss graduate programs, admission, careers, and financial aid. Applications are being accepted for Fall 2009 admission into the College's master's degree programs in: Criminal Justice, Forensic Computing, Forensic Psychology, Forensic Mental Health Counseling, Forensic Science, Public Administration, and Protection Management.
For more information, click here or call 212.237.8863.
John Jay College
Gerald W. Lynch Theatre
899 Tenth Avenue
New York City
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
| Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
8:00 PM |
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
8:00 PM |
| Thursday, April 23, 2009 |
8:00 PM |
| Friday, April 24, 2009 |
8:00 PM |
| Saturday, April 25, 2009 |
8:00 PM |
The Department of Communication and Theatre Arts and the APACHE Project are proud to present The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Dana Tarantino. The play is about the explosive result of what can happen when theatre meets theology. The seriocomic play takes place in an imagined world between heaven and hell as it reexamines the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous sinner in a trial of "God and Kingdom of Heaven and Earth versus Judas Iscariot."
Tickets $10: General Admission
Reservations may be made by calling 212.695.6908.
John Jay College
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
899 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Annual Spring 2009 Job Fair
Thursday, April 23, 2008 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Office of Career Development Services is pleased to invite alumni to participate in its annual Job Fair. Participants must wear traditional business attire and bring at least 10 copies of their resume. You will be required to leave a copy of your resume at the entrance to the job fair. Please note: the Job Fair is open to John Jay College alumni and students only.
For more information, contact Crystal Farmer at 212.237.8754 or cfarmer@jjay.cuny.edu.
John Jay College
899 Tenth Avenue (enter from the third floor)
New York City
Graduate Lecture Series
Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The final lecture of the Spring 2009 series is "The New York State Budget Crunch" presented by The Honorable Herman D. Farrell, Jr., Chairperson, Ways and Means Committee, New York State Assembly.
For more information, contact Petula Bailey at pbailey@jjay.cuny.edu or 646.557.4518.
John Jay College
445 West 59th Street, Multipurpose Room 2200N
New York City
Killadelphia
by Sean Christopher Lewis
| Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
7:00 PM |
| Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
7:00 PM |
| Friday, May 1, 2009 |
7:00 PM |
Commissioned by the Mural Arts Project of Philadelphia and InterAct Theatre, Killadelphia is the latest work from award-winning playwright and solo performer Sean Christopher Lewis. Lewis uses hip hop and documentary theatre techniques to weave together the story of murdered teaching fellow Beau Zabel with interviews from lifers at Graterford Prison - a group of men employed in prison to paint many of the 2,000 murals seen throughout the city of Philadelphia.
Tickets are $15 and can be acquired through Ticket Central at 212.279.4200 or http://www.ticketcentral.com. For more information about the Performing Arts at John Jay, click here.
John Jay College
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
899 Tenth Avenue
New York City
Alumnus Henry "Hank" Lemons (BS '78) recently had new milestones added to his long and successful career in criminal justice. Governor David A. Paterson last month named Lemons as interim chair of the New York State Board of Parole and interim chief executive officer for the Division of Parole. A commissioner of the Board of Parole since 2007, his major responsibilities include determining release dates for inmates serving indeterminate prison terms, establishing conditions of release for inmates who are paroled and revoking parole when it is determined that a releasee has violated those conditions. Before serving on the Board, he was the deputy chief investigator for the New York State Attorney General in the Downstate Region's Criminal Investigations Bureau from 2004 to 2007. Prior to that, he was the assistant chief investigator in the Special Investigations Bureau for the Kings County District Attorney. A Bedford-Stuyvesant native, Lemon served with the New York City Police Department as a former sergeant and detective for the first 20 years of his career. He also is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and served for four years of active duty with the United States Air Force.
Over the course of the last 15 years, 196 students have participated in the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program. Named after the astronaut Ronald E. McNair, the program's goal is to prepare selected students with strong academic potential for doctoral studies. Two students who are currently involved with the program are Jessica Armstrong and Shirley Sut Yee Chan. Armstrong, whose family lives in Texas, has been on her own since she was 17. She is a transfer student from New Orleans and is currently a student in the College's BA/MA program majoring in forensic psychology. She plans on earning a PhD in clinical psychology specializing in addiction studies. Chan gave up a full scholarship at Barnard College to come to John Jay where she is majoring in forensic psychology. She hopes to attend medical school after graduation and is taking all of her science requirements now. She is still deciding whether she will go into emergency medicine or psychiatry. For more information about the McNair Program, click here.
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