12-3-25: John Jay News December 2025
As you prepare for the holiday season and finish up the fall semester, enjoy the December issue of John Jay News, created specifically for faculty and staff. Have ideas for the newsletter? We’d love to hear your feedback.
Events
Dec 04: CUNY IT Conference 2025
Dec 08: Town Hall
Dec 08: Rising Scholars of Justice Program Info Session
Dec 10: Emotional Borderlands: Border Policing, Emotional Labour & Affective Governance
Dec 11: Fall Grad Fair
Campus Updates
The Department of Africana Studies is pleased to welcome Regina Bernard-Carreno, Ph.D., as Professor and Chair of the department. Her research focuses on issues of race, class, food inequality, narratives concerning the wellness of women of color, and engaged activism among New York City’s youth.
Compliance Trainings: All faculty and staff are required to complete mandatory compliance trainings for the 2025–2026 academic year. Questions? Contact: Ivette Rivera or Keisha Pottinger-Moore.
Center for Cybercrime Studies: Professor Marie-Helen Maras, Ph.D., the Center’s director, participated in a panel called “Getting ‘AI Ready’: Opportunities and Challenges.” The event, “Policing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” was organized by the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Policing in partnership with INTERPOL and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Finland.
John Jay job listings include open faculty, executive, managerial, and professional, IT, support, part-time & civil service eligible positions. Questions? Email askhr@jjay.cuny.edu.
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Cristina Lozano-Argüelles, Ph.D., assistant professor, has launched a new blog for Psychology Today called “The Bilingual Mind.”
Department of Philosophy: Alvin Kass, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor, has passed away. Kass was a member of the John Jay community for more than 12 years and served as a chaplain in the NYPD for 57 years.
Department of Sociology: Professor
Amy Adamczyk, Ph.D., won the Steven F. Messner Outstanding Book Award at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Washington, D.C., for her book Fetal Positions.
Good News
John Jay is #5 in “Best Bang for the Buck” ranking
John Jay is #11 Nationwide for Best Hispanic-Serving Colleges
Faculty & Staff Email Archive
11-24: Open Forum Announcement for VP of EMSA Finalists
11-12: Universal Television LLC: FBI Season 7
11-06: Civil Service Exam Announcement for Stock Worker
11-06: Civil Service Exam Announcement for Media Services Technician
10-31: Special Screening of HBO documentary film, The Alabama Solution
10-30: Prepaid Legal Service Benefit for CUNY Classified Civil Service Employees
Enter to Win
Congratulations to Alexa Barisano from the Office of External Affairs, who won the November raffle for a John Jay camo crew!
This month’s raffle is for a John Jay seal T-shirt sponsored by the Office of the Legal Counsel. The first John Jay faculty or staff member to email marketing@jjay.cuny.edu with “December raffle” in the subject line wins!
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