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| Partnership helps ASU grads lock up state correctional jobs |
| By montgomeryadvertiser.com |
| Published: 09/11/2009 |
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Alabama State University students majoring in criminal justice already may have a job when they graduate, thanks to a new partnership between ASU and the Alabama Department of Corrections. ASU President William Harris and Department of Corrections Commissioner Richard Allen announced Thursday that the two institutions were teaming up to offer a new criminal justice internship program that will train students to become state correctional officers. "We look forward to this being a success and finding other ways to work with the Department of Corrections in the future," Harris said during a morning news conference about the partnership. "Students in criminal justice majors will get first hand knowledge in the field." Allen said after his department was unsuccessful filling 500 vacant correctional officer positions through television and radio advertisements, he had the idea of creating a partnership with ASU as a way to help fill them, he said. "We're short on security officers statewide," he said. "Recruiting is a challenge we address every day." Under the internship program, ASU criminal justice majors with 18 semester hours in their major are eligible to apply for the internship program, which requires students to undergo a 12-week basic-training program in Selma. Lodging and meals during the training are provided free to students. Students in training will earn the annual starting salary of $28,516.80 for correctional officer trainees and receive 12 credit hours toward completion of their degree at ASU. ASU criminal justice majors can begin applying for the internship program within the next two months, said Larry Spencer, a criminal justice professor in ASU's Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. The university expects students to begin internships starting in January, he said. Students still will be required to meet the normal state requirements to work as correctional officers, including passing a background check, and physical and written exams. Read More. |
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