COORDINATING CRIMINOLOGY ACROSS THE CAMPUSES

1. Some advances have been made in this discipline, which are partially attributable to cross-campus coordination. These include:

      a.   The development of a criminology minor at St. Augustine

      b.   A proposed minor at Cave Hill

      c.   An annual M. Phil/Ph.D. conference and workshop.

1. Regarding the minors, Mona shared its course outlines with the other two campuses. The course offerings across the campuses are therefore quite similar.
2. The next steps may involve both St. Augustine and Mona offering majors.

• The main achievement is however the graduate conference/workshop. This year, the second such workshop will be held. Graduate students from all three campuses are able to present their work and learn from their peers and faculty members. This event is intended to provide:

                           a.   Greater structure for the research students who often feel isolated

                           b.   Access the limited faculty resources in the field (beyond their supervisors)

                           c.    Progressively add content to compensate for the weakness in the
                                  preparation of students who do postgraduate work in this field. The pool of
                                  students is drawn from our undergraduate programmes.

The rather grand aspiration is to move toward an American type programme with greater course work. If we are able to secure funds we will: (a) next year extend the programme from three days to a week and add new components; (b) have guest faculty from other universities. Kent, American and Arizona are willing but not yet able to participate. For Kent, participation means sending both faculty and students. We have already developed a proposal to fund collaboration with Kent.

Reasons for the progress and possibilities:

1. The existence of a structure, in the form of the 1CJS, which facilitates cross-campus collaboration.
2. On-going collaboration among faculty in the discipline via the ICJS.
3. The support of the Deans.
   • For potential developments, the existence of a network of scholars from whom we may be able to pull volunteers to support our efforts.