INTERNET NOW A DOOR TO A CJ MASTERS

Working full-time, supporting a family and you still want to earn a promotion to a management level position in law enforcement?
Police officers, federal agents and criminal justice professionals across the nation can now earn a master’s degree in criminal justice management, keep their full-time jobs and take the courses from their living rooms.
Sam Houston State University, known internationally for its degree programs in
criminal justice, policing, corrections, security studies, victim studies and forensic sciences, will begin this fall to offer its traditional master’s degree in criminal justice and management via the internet.
Students can complete the program in two years, from home or wherever they have access to the Internet.
“The goal is to provide professionals with easy access to a high-quality graduate degree no matter where they work or live," said the dean of Sam Houston State’s College of Criminal Justice, Vincent Webb.
Driving a long distance to a university campus and taking classes during work hours is not an option for most professionals in law enforcement and criminal justice, he said.
The curriculum includes courses on management and leadership, policing, corrections, the court system, computer applications and a healthy dose of research methods, Webb said.
The program also offers access to technical support 24-hours a day, seven days a week, students will have the opportunity to learn from a faculty that includes internationally recognized experts in criminal justice.
The United States government contracts with Sam Houston State’s highly regarded College of Criminal Justice to train police and law enforcement officers from around the world on its campus in Huntsville, Texas, but also in their home countries.
“This is a quality distance learning degree that graduates will work hard to earn and will be appropriately proud of,” said CJ professor Larry Hoover, who was instrumental in designing the program.
Applicants for the online program must have at least three years of work experience in law enforcement or some field of criminal justice, and already have earned a bachelor’s degree. The application deadline for the fall semester is August 1.
For more information, or to apply online, visit http://www.cjcenter.org/distancelearning, or call Tess Johnson in SHSU’s College of Criminal Justice at (936) 294.4326.

Web Site Writing Seminar

Stamats, our web site redesign firm will be back on campus July 23 and 24th to conduct "Writing for the Web" seminars. If interested contact anneo@shsu.edu.

More great teachers

Ask any Sam alum and he or she will tell stories about great teachers they had at Sam. This is not just PR. It's a fact. Sam is large enough to attract great teachers and small enough that every Sam student is going to have the privilege of learning from them. Here's a good example. It's from a column written by 'Doc' Blakely in the Wharton (TX) Journal-Spectator:

"One of my agriculture professors at Sam Houston State University had such an impact on me that I still have flashbacks to some of his life lessons, especially with every spring garden. Dr. Shackelford was an East Texas boy who probably should never have left the farm but like he used to say, "A Grapefruit is just a Lemon who had a chance and took it."

Everybody called him affectionately 'Dr. Shack.' He was an agronomist and horticulturist. He loved to tell stories about his days growing up on a farm and how he was inspired to get off it."

If you have had your own story about a great teacher, we'd like to hear it.

Hey, Veterans, welcome home and welcome to Sam.

To serve you better, we're creating a new Veterans Center where you can hang out with other veterans and reservists; we have several hundred enrolled as students here. Also, we're holding a orientation especially designed to answer your questions about using your GI Bill bene's, other sources of financial aid, and academic advising and support. That Orientation will be August 6 in the Lowman Student Center. For more info, call Teresa Ringo at 936.294.1061 or email her at tringo@shsu.edu.

Web Site Redesign Updates

Our Stamats team returned to campus - see Today@Sam for photo and related story as our web site redesign project moves forward. Web site key messages include our high quality education with a high return on investment, the up close and personal caring found at SHSU, and our culture and traditions. Faculty and student success stories will appear throughout the web site pages. Plus, we'll have some WOW features that you'll want to see on Aug 27th when Dr. Gaertner reveals the design at the Faculty/Staff meeting.

Your web site redesign comments are invited and students interested in participating in a focus group on Wed, July 22, please contact me here or at anneo@shsu.edu.