UCF Rolls Out New Professional Track for Bachelor’s Degrees in Criminal Justice Launched in Fall 2024, the professional track is intended to streamline students’ pathway from college to a career in law enforcement or correctional leadership.
New Orlando Police Department Foundation Endowed Scholarships to Strengthen UCF Talent Pipeline Police Chief Eric Smith ’93 announced the new scholarships on UCF Day of Giving 2024, which is dedicated to philanthropy that fuels student success and more.
How to Identify Potential Human-trafficking Victims In 2021, Florida was No. 3 in the nation for highest number of calls and cases related to human trafficking, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
UCF-led Research Team to Develop Pandemic Guidelines for Community Supervision Agencies Criminal justice faculty member Jill Viglione will work with experts to examine best practices and compile evidence-based guidelines for agencies to use in public health crises.
UCF Podcast: Championing Against Violence Bethany Backes, an assistant professor in the Violence Against Women faculty cluster who worked for the Department of Justice for more than 10 years, shares what it means to be a champion both against violence and for social justice.
UCF Alum Sworn in as New Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith ’93 graduated with a degree in criminal justice and has worked at the Orlando Police Department for nearly three decades.
Recent UCF Graduates Have Accepted Tenure-track Positions at Top Universities A tenure-track position is the unicorn of academia, but students are finding jobs after earning their doctorate degrees at UCF and going onto places like NC State, Notre Dame, and the University of Toronto.
New NSF-Funded Survey Aims to Understand Gender Inequity in STEM Fields What’s learned could help build a model to improve equity in higher education nationwide.
New UCF Co-led Study Will Focus on Keeping Intimate Partner Violence Survivors Safe The researchers will create evidence-based, intimate partner violence pretrial safety assessment guides for judges to use when considering pretrial release in intimate partner violence cases.
UCF Study Will Look at COVID-19 Effects on Services that Help Prevent Reoffending Probation and parole agencies have had to adapt to help some 6 million Americans stay on the right track and not reoffend.
