Professor Henry Pontell, chair of the Department of Sociology, has been named as a Distinguished Professor, following action by the City University Board of Trustees. Pontell becomes the eighth...

August 27, 2015, New York, NY – John Jay College is ranked #4 in the “Best Bang for the Buck” rankings in the Northeast region by Washington Monthly magazine’s 2015 College Guide – an annual issue...

John Jay College of Criminal Justice President Jeremy Travis has praised the Obama Administration’s plan for an experimental restoration of Pell education grants for incarcerated adults, a move that...

The Americans with Disabilities Act celebrated its 25th anniversary in July. As part of the celebration, the City University of New York (CUNY) and John Jay College hosted the “ADA25 Lights! Camera!...

With a growing bipartisan movement toward multifaceted criminal justice reform as well as recent changes to criminal justice policies across the United States, President Jeremy Travis has provided...

The Fortune Society has generously donated its extensive archives — a collection of internal documents, photos, videos, and published materials – to the Special Collections of Lloyd Sealy Library of...

The National Network for Safe Communities held its national conference at John Jay College of Criminal Justice on June 22 and 23, 2015, in New York City. The landmark conference brought together...

The U.S. Supreme Court established landmark constitutional law on June 26 with its marriage-equality ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges , but Professor Daniel Pinello of John Jay College’s Department of...

Associate Professor Dante Tawfeeq of John Jay College’s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science recently won a U.S. Government-sponsored Fulbright Specialist award that allowed him to work at...

In relation to the ongoing controversy surrounding former Spokane, Wash., NAACP president Rachel Dolezal, Professor Baz Dreisinger of the English department has been interviewed by several media...