I chose the degree program at Washburn
really for two main reasons it was
flexible enough that i was
able to do that as a working
professional, but it also offer
the components of a really legitimate
degree program the in-class experience
the professors that I had access to and
the ability to do a major academic
writing by writing a thesis as part of
my master's degree program. One word to
sum it will be great
there's so much connection with
everybody
the criminal justice program over here
we worked with them they helped us with
training,
just everything that we need and they
have the expertise to do that
so when you can share our experience in
law enforcement with the expertise that
comes from the the instructors in the
Criminal Justice program
I think you're getting the second to
none. Well i think that the the master's
program specifically with 
Washburn is a great program. It's
one that challenges the people
who are in that program your
instructors are very often times
practitioners in the field of Criminal
Justice and they're going to bring a
real life experience to the classroom.
Well coming up through the department
as a frontline officer I believe my
criminal justice degree from Washburn
University allowed me to be a more
well-rounded person
the class size was a big selling point
for me because I knew there would be
individualized attention
and access to the instructors. I found
that the instructors here we're very
knowledgeable
most of them had had experience in the
criminal justice or law enforcement
field so it was more than just a theory
based you were able to learn from their
experiences and hit the ground running
when you are ready to take the leap into
the field.
I think it helped me get my
administrative job at the State Fire
Marshal's Office having that graduate
degree because the graduate degree was
more on the administrative side and gave
me some of those administrative skills
that i was going to need in that type of
position. In the Criminal Justice field
It is almost a necessity to have an
undergraduate degree to be successful
and to move into the management ranks
and I think the education that I
received from Washburn
was very well rounded and enabled me
to progress in my career field to a
point that had been
my ultimate goal which was to run
the state investigative organization.
The collaboration with Washburn first
off we were able to work together to
create a state-of-the-art facility on
Washburn University,
secondly we were able to work together
to create a pathway for success for
young people coming into the the
Criminal Justice field were able to put
a functioning Forensic laboratory on 
campus and actually have interns from
the Forensic science classes come into
our functioning laboratory and we could
get a chance to evaluate whether or not
we may be interested in hiring those
individuals and we believe that
collaboration will help us to reach
critical staffing levels and will help
us to retain
our staff. It's going to be one of
those situations where our staff will be
working collaboratively with the
university as adjunct professors as well
as students coming into our facility to
learn in a fully functioning Forensic
facility.
