Criminal Justice Advising
Criminal Justice Program
Jenny Boysen and department faculty members serve as our advisors. Your instructors and advisors
will help you to develop a greater understanding of your values and goals. If you
have a specific interest, please inform us early on so we can assign you to an advisor
who will provide expertise in that area. We encourage you to get to know your advisor
well in your first year. Your advisor will:
- Introduce you to the expectations and opportunities of the academic community and
its values and rewards.
- Discuss your objectives and help identify your individual strengths and talents, as
well as skills that need more development to succeed.
- Help you create an academic program that facilitates exploration of your interests
and realization of your goals.
- Encourage you to actively participate in the learning process and link you to resources
on campus to help in your personal discovery and development.
- Provide feedback to reinforce your successes and explore options to resolve academic
difficulties.
- Teach you how to use information and other resources to make decisions and take responsibility
for those decisions.
Advising is a partnership - you take an active role in establishing and maintaining
contact with your advisor as you assume ever-increasing responsibility for knowing
the academic requirements and university procedures.