John Jay College
of Criminal Justice
Outstanding Students: Kevin
Greene, class valedictorian for the 2007 graduating class, is an
immigrant from Georgetown, Guyana. He arrived in this country with his family
in 1980. During his senior year in
high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army doing a 12-month tour of duty in
Iraq. Louise
Anderson will receive her CUNY Baccalaureate in May 2007 and a
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship. Her area of concentration, Conflict Resolution:
Theory and Practice, was built around a core of study in John Jay’s Dispute
Resolution Certificate program and an internship with the CUNY Dispute
Resolution Consortium, which is based at the College. She plans to pursue a PhD
in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center with a focus on the psychology
of political behavior. Christian
Cardona will receive his magna cum laude BA in International
Criminal Justice in May 2007. He was chosen as a 2007 Charles B. Rangel International
Affairs Fellow. He will use the
fellowship to pursue a master’s degree in international affairs, with a
concentration in international security. Through the program, he will work on
international affairs for a member of Congress during the summer of 2007. In summer 2008, the State Department
will send him overseas to work in a U.S. Embassy, where he will get hands-on
familiarization with U.S. foreign policy and the Foreign Service in a specific
country.
Honorary degrees were awarded to Patricia
Cornwell, Doctor
of Letters
Patricia Cornwell’s crime fiction has been translated into 32 languages across
more than 35 countries. A string of novels beginning more than a decade ago
have reached number one on the New York Times best-seller list, including
Cornwell’s latest, “Predator,” in 2005. She has also distinguished herself
through her philanthropy, giving multi-million dollar gifts to academic institutions
whose work advances knowledge in criminal justice science, research and education.
Richard Delgado,
Doctor of Laws
The University Distinguished Professor of Law and Derrick Bell
Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Professor Richard Delgado
is considered the preeminent Latino legal scholar in the country. He is a founder
of the Critical Race Theory movement, a school of thought that places race at
the very nexus of life in the United States. A prolific writer, Delgado has published
more than 146 journal articles and 43 book chapters.
Deborah Lipstadt,
Doctor of Humane Letters
Dr. Deborah Lipstadt is an
internationally renowned scholar of contemporary Jewish history. The Dorot
Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University and
Director of the University’s Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies,
she represented President Bush in 2005 as a member of an official American
delegation to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Lipstadt is
also the author of a recent book chronicling her successful legal battle in a
British court against a Holocaust denier.#
