Public Justice Department

The Latino Student Union is proud to announce that Jayvana Perez and Yadi Aranda Burgos are this year's recipients for the Eugenio Maria de Hostos Scholarship.

Jaclyn Schildkraut, an associate professor of criminal justice at SUNY Oswego who specializes on the topic of mass shootings, is again collecting holiday cards in support of families impacted by these tragedies.

The shift from face-to-face to virtual learning in the spring semester often forced faculty members to adapt and get creative with their students’ big projects.

SUNY Oswego criminal justice faculty member Jaclyn Schildkraut is once again coordinating an effort to send thousands of holiday cards to children impacted by mass shootings.

Marlon Peterson will discuss a way forward to combat violence and promote justice during his talk titled “What Does Justice Look Like?” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the Sheldon Hall ballroom at SUNY Oswego.

lisa Descartes, a SUNY Oswego senior public justice major, last summer thought about the need for faculty and alumni connections among students of color seeking to move on to graduate school or careers -- daunting frontiers for any student near graduation, but particularly for minority and first-generation college students.

Award-winning Lt. Brian Murphy, who responded to a 2012 mass shooting, will relay his experiences in “What You Do Every Day: A Conversation on Safety and Preparedness” on March 11 at SUNY Oswego.

For her latest book, which looks at the legacy of the Columbine school shootings two decades later, SUNY Oswego criminal justice faculty member Jackie Schildkraut said the foundation comes from a quote in the Wall of Healing at the Columbine Memorial -- a place of remembrance that will be supported withproceeds from the book.

SUNY Oswego has begun transitioning its public justice major to criminal justice, a move that modernizes the program, boosts its rigor in alignment with national standards and makes its name more recognizable to graduate schools and employers.

SUNY Oswego criminal justice faculty member Jaclyn Schildkraut coordinated an effort that sent more than 9,000 holiday cards to children impacted by mass shootings.