{"id":285393,"date":"2013-12-11T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=285393"},"modified":"2013-12-12T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:09:51","slug":"ut-tyler-criminal-justice-graduates-among-best-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=285393","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler Criminal Justice Graduates among Best Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=285394\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-285394\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/12\/thumb_uttyler-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_uttyler\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-285394\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler 2013 criminal justice graduates are among the best in their field, President Rodney H. Mabry announced.   For the first time in university history, UT Tyler graduates scored in the top five percent nationally on the Education Testing Service Major Field Test for Criminal Justice.   The test is given to graduating criminal justice seniors and used to assess and compare the program\u2019s effectiveness to programs at similar institutions nationwide. The exam covers criminological theory, the law, law enforcement, corrections, the court system, research methodology and statistics as well as critical thinking.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see our criminal justice students score in the top five percent in the nation speaks loudly about the dedication of our faculty and the quality of our students,\u201d President Mabry said. \u201cThrough the efforts of our faculty to instruct students on relevant topics using the latest information and technology, scores on the field test have steadily increased over the past few years.\u201d   In 2012 and 2011, UT Tyler criminal justice seniors were among the top 10 and 15 percent in the country, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler 2013 criminal justice graduates are among the best in their field, President Rodney H. Mabry announced. For the first time in university history, UT Tyler graduates scored in the top five percent nationally on the Education Testing Service Major Field Test for Criminal Justice. The test is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=285393\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler Criminal Justice Graduates among Best Nationwide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 14:29:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285395,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285393\/revisions\/285395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}