CJAG Meeting Minutes

Jasmine Room, Westin Resort

Hilton Head, SC

2/23/01
 

The annual CJAG business meeting was called to order at 5:00 PM by Leo Downing, CJAG President 2000-2001.
 

1. 2002 Program

The 2002 program was finalized. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the GPSA at the Mulberry Inn, Savannah, Georgia from 1/31-2/2. The decision was made to offer four CJ panels. The chairs and topic of each panel are as follows.

Leo Downing: general CJ papers
Hil Harper: general CJ papers
*Eugene Bouley: panel for graduate and undergraduate papers
Steve Engel: panel dealing with issues related to CJ education
 

* Please note that the deadline for abstracts will be in September so papers for the student panel should be chosen from student projects this Spring or last Fall semester.

Snail mail and email addresses for each of the Chairs can be found on the CJAG web site: http://www.ngcsu.edu/CJAG/cjmeet.htm

A formal call for papers will be made as soon as arrangements with the GPSA are made.
 

2. Growth

Discussions focused on ways to increase membership and the importance of maintaining an independent academic organization.
 

3. CJAG website: http://www.ngcsu.edu/CJAG/cjag.htm

Several improvements have been made in the web site. Faculty were urged to make use of the information provided.
 

4. CJ Academic meetings

The ASC will meet in Atlanta, November 11/7-11/11 and the SCJA will meet in Baton Rouge, September 9/26-9/29.

5. Election of Officers for 2002-2003

Leo Downing was elected President for the 2002-2003 term.
 

6. Minutes

The meeting minutes from the Criminal Justice Academic Advisory Committee were reviewed and discussed.
 

7. CJ books distributors

The suggestion was made that the book distributors need to be notified that CJAG will be meeting jointly with the GPSA. Several of the book publishers were unaware of the CJAG meeting and had no criminal justice texts.
 

8. Alternative Dispute Resolution

The BOR has been advocating the use of ADR for a number of years. With the growing use of ADR procedures in the cj system this seems an ideal opportunity for criminal justice faculty members to involve themselves in a learning experience while becoming more active in their campus community.
 

9. Course prefix

A short discussion centered around the common USG prefix for criminal justice courses: CRJU. This prefix was adopted by a vote of the CJ Academic Advisory Committee several years ago at the request of the BOR for all disciplines to adopt a common prefix. At this time several schools are still not using the criminal justice prefix (though they are using the the common prefix adopted by other disciplines). Other than the State University of West Georgia, which awards a Criminology degree, no reason seemed to justify the lack of uniformity. Further exploration of the matter will follow.
 

10. Meeting was adjourned at 6:00 PM. Hil Harper, Valdosta State University, assumed the duties as President of CJAG.