World Campus Criminal Justice Program First Online Degree to Receive ACJS Certification

World Campus Criminal Justice Program First Online Degree to Receive ACJS
Certification

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences recognizes professional and scholarly
activities in the criminal justice field

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., April 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Penn State World
Campus online criminal justice program, with its academic home in the Criminal
Justice Program at Penn State Harrisburg, became the first online program in
the country to be awarded certification through the Academy of Criminal
Justice Sciences (ACJS).

Dr. Barbara Sims, professor of criminal justice and criminal justice chair at
Penn State Harrisburg, said the certification reinforces the reputation that
the online program is earning for quality criminal justice instruction.

"The ACJS Executive Board, along with the Academic Review Committee, worked
diligently to ensure that criminal justice programs are held to as high a
standard as are programs in other disciplines," said Sims. "Achieving the
certification means that faculty, students and staff can be assured that they
are teaching, learning, and working within an environment that is committed to
high quality programming."

The World Campus criminal justice degree program is a 120-credit program
designed to provide the student with the theoretical and practical knowledge
of crime control, as well as the skills necessary to succeed in criminal
justice and related careers. The format of the online degree offers students
the convenience and flexibility of studying around personal and professional
schedules.

The ACJS, an international association established in 1963 to foster
professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice, sets
certification that calls for standards including quality faculty, sufficient
resources for faculty and students, an appropriate curriculum, the use of
evidence-based outcomes for assessing student learning and the ethical
treatment of faculty and students.

For more details, visit
http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/ACJShttp://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/ACJS online.

SOURCE Penn State University Office of Outreach

Matt Swayne of Penn State Outreach, +1-814-865-7600, mls29@outreach.psu.edu