Drs. AnnMarie and Gary Cordner receive NIJ Grant

The doctors Cordner have received a grant of approximately $250,000 to study the management of the U.S. law enforcement workforce.  Specific issues addressed will include planning, turnover, retention, and the roles of training academies and college criminal justice programs in preparing people for police employment.  Methods will include random sample surveys of criminal justice agencies and of criminal justice educators.  Also sampled will be students from five universities.  A final part of the research will be case studies of 10 police agencies.  The grant will run for 18 months from January 2010.

Dr. Gary Cordner presenting in Washington, December 11th

Prof. Gary Cordner will be one of the presenters at the December 11th conference on "From the Academy to Retirement: A Journey Through the Policing Lifecycle" sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs.

Professor Cordner is one of several co-investigators on the National Police Research Platform, a 3-year federally-funded demonstration project aimed at developing a more in-depth understanding of the "life course" of police officers and police organizations. Longitudinal data are being collected from police recruits and new police sergeants in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Kentucky. Annual surveys are also being administered to sworn and nonsworn employees in a small sample of police agencies around the country. Police departments in Allentown, Bethlehem, Emmaus, and Catasauqua are among those participating in the study.

Substantial need by CIA for uniformed police officers; good pay; DC area.

Prof. Logan sent me this:
A couple of good links for our students and grads.
https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/security-protective-officer.html
https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/security-professional.html
https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/contract-specialist-entry-level.html
https://www.cia.gov/careers/student-opportunities/students-support.html

#9 on CNN's list of the 50 best jobs in America: Intelligence Analyst

More info at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/9.html  There are already 51,000 of them.  Median pay is 82K.  (Information found by Prof. Logan)

Advice on getting a job in the "intelligence community"

Today's entry in a blog by Prof. Kristan Wheaton of Mercyhurst College's Institute of Intelligence studies has excellent advice on finding jobs in intelligence and crime analysis.  Go here.
--link contributed by Prof. Logan

Fifth of jobs U.S. government will fill in 2010-2012 will be security related

That's the headline at the Homeland Security Newswire available here.  The article goes on to note an anticipated hiring of 52,077 people for security related jobs in the next two fiscal years of which 34,500 will be in Homeland Security.
--contributed by Prof. G. Cordner

A Super Link for your federal job hunt strategy.

How many people work for each agency?  How many were hired last year?  How many people is each agency expecting to hire over the next two years?  Go here.  Note that the subjeads for each agency are links that lead you to sites with more information.

Let the CIA pay for college?

As I was prospecting for possible internship sites, I encountered a scholarship program run by the CIA.  It's open to sophomores with Math+Verbal SAT of >1000 and a GPA of >3.0.  There are many more conditions and restrictions with preference given to minorities and the disabled.  The deadline is October 15th.  Should you be selected, it pays $18,000 per year!  More information here.

Police jobs in PA

http://www.911hotjobs.com/ is currently listing jobs in Warminister Twp., Lancaster Co, and Lincoln, PA. For Warminister, applications close Oct. 2nd. As of today, http://www.discoverpolicing.org/ has 69 police jobs listed in PA.

Dr. Kevorkian speaks at KU September 20th

Dr. Jack Kevorkian: “Civil Rights, Civil Disobedience and Criminal Justice”
September 20, 7 p.m. (Sunday)
Schaeffer Auditorium

Dr. Kevorkian assisted 130 gravely ill people in committing suicide and subsequently served eight years in prison for second-degree murder. His speech promises to provide unparalled first-hand insights into its titled subjects. More information and a link to free but mandatory tickets are available at http://tinyurl.com/kevorktix  UPDATE ON 9/11/09: no more tickets are available.  Audio will be available on KU's website.

Police employment resources

This is a great resource for students looking for police jobs: http://www.discoverpolicing.org/. For federal jobs, also see: http://www.usajobs.gov/.

--contributed by Prof. G. Cordner

CRJ Honor Society

Did you know that KU has a chapter of the national criminal justice honor society, Alpha Phi Sigma? Membership requirements are CRJ major or minor, a 3.2 GPA (overall + in CRJ), and at least 1/3 through the degree and the major/minor. Each semester we invite eligible students to join. So, get your GPA up there!

For information, contact Pietro Toggia (toggia@kutztown.edu) or Gary Cordner (cordner@kutztown.edu)