School of Administrative Science Receives Nearly $1 Million in Grants

Dean Kenneth Vehrkens, Petrocelli College (Metro/Flor), announces two new federal grants for programs in the School of Administrative Science within the Anthony J. Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies.

NIJ Award for $321,667

The University’s School of Administrative Science has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to increase the capacity and scope of its Cyber Crime Training Lab, located in Dickinson Hall on the Metropolitan Campus. This competitive grant, totaling $321,667, will support a two-year Webinar curriculum development project to be spearheaded by Eamon Doherty, administrative science and director of the Cyber Crime Training Lab (Metro), and Lt. Andrew Donofrio of the Bergen County Prosecutor Office’s Computer Crimes Unit. Doherty and Donofrio will jointly research and develop training products in digital forensic investigative techniques to further advance law-enforcement educational opportunities at FDU. Chris Ellen Cunningham, coordinator, Cyber Crime Training Lab (Metro), will serve as project director and will administer the grant.

Department of Justice Award for $670,761

The School of Administrative Science has also earned a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to continue to develop and deliver cyber-crime and forensic training and education to the law-enforcement community. This focus of study was initiated by the previous grants awarded to the University and funded the construction of the Cyber Crime Training Lab. The award of $670,761 will be used to develop an online School Resource Officer Certificate Training Program to be disseminated nationwide. Cunningham will serve as project director and will administer the grant. Doherty will devote his efforts to the creation and delivery of the curriculum.

Both grants will run concurrently for a two year-period ending in December 2010 and will strengthen the scope and capability of the School of Administrative Science to provide quality education to an expanding adult-learner population.