Salem State College: Criminal Justice - Mission Statement & Strategic Goals

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Salem, MA 01970
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Criminal Justice

Mission Statement

The Department of Criminal Justice is committed to fostering a challenging and intellectually stimulating environment that provides a broad range of interactive academic and field experiences. An understanding and appreciation of the theory, research, policy and practice of criminal justice, as a unique social science discipline, will be advanced. The Department will promote the development of future academicians and professionals who are capable of assuming responsibility for the research, continuing scholarship and administration of the criminal justice system.

Strategic Goals

To engage students in the educational process and to foster their development as competent and ethical academicians and professionals.
To use selective teaching styles and innovative techniques to impart a comprehensive body of knowledge, analyze issues, develop verbal and writing skills and enhance critical thinking.
To advance criminal justice as a unique social science discipline through curriculum development, appropriate classroom objectives, content and learning experiences.
To establish a comprehensive professional development program to enhance faculty scholarship, teaching and technological abilities.
To further develop a broad variety of professional relationships for the advancement of the discipline
To develop a Masters Program that is interdisciplinary and integrative in nature, drawing on different disciplines and paradigms for theoretical and methodological approaches.