CCC Professor Receives Top CJEANYS Award

Friday, February 08, 2008

Plattsburgh… At the yearly Fall Conference and Business Meeting of the Criminal Justice Educators Association of New York State (CJEANYS), in Geneva, New York, one of it’s members, a Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminal Justice Program Coordinator at Clinton Community College (CCC) in Plattsburgh, John Mockry, was honored with the Richard B. Lewis Award, the organizations highest honor. CJEANYS, a 35 year-old organization, comprised of criminal justice instructors from the State University of New York State’s 4 and 2 year institutions and privately operated colleges, presents this award each year to a member who has given “dedicated service, contributions and distinction” to the organization. Mockry has been a CJEANYS member since 1995, and during that time served six two-year terms as a Regional Vice-President and in 2003 served for two years as the organizations President. In addition, Mockry twice hosted the yearly State conference in Lake Placid in 1999, and again in 2005. Mockry also served on a number of yearly conference committees as well as a panel moderator and presenter. He is currently the Region 5 Vice-President, Executive Board Member and Conference Hospitality and Networking Coordinator.

On the national level, Mockry has represented New York State on the executive board of the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences (NEACJS) for the past six years and is currently the Chairperson of the Student Papers Competition for that organization.

Mockry has been teaching criminal justice at CCC since 1995. He served as the Assistant Academic Dean for the Inmate Higher Education Program (IHEP) at CCC for two years. He has also been an adjunct instructor in the Criminal Justice/Sociology Department at State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh, since 2000. His criminal justice career, professionally, was as counselor and program coordinator while working for the New York State Department of Corrections Services (NYSDOCS) at the Clinton Correctional maximum security facility in Dannemora. He is currently Chair of the North Country Chapter of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty (NYADP) in Plattsburgh.

Mockry received his bachelor’s degree in history and master’s degree in counseling from The SUNY Plattsburgh. Originally from the Capital District area, he and his wife Jean, also a college instructor in the Education Department at SUNY Plattsburgh, reside in the city of Plattsburgh.

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