The HBCU Criminal Justice Consortium

 

Welcome to the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Criminal Justice Consortium (HBCU CJC). The Consortium is a collaborative network of HBCUs that offer graduate programs and degrees in administration of justice, criminal justice, criminology, justice studies, juvenile justice, and related fields. The Consortium was created to support sustained institutional collaboration and the strategic sharing of resources and expertise among graduate criminology and criminal justice programs at HBCUs.

 

About the Consortium

The HBCU Criminal Justice Consortium was established in early 2022 following a Black Criminologist Forum Zoom call initiated by Dr. Anne Sulton. Following this discussion, graduate criminology and criminal justice programs at HBCUs were contacted to identify institutional partners and obtain letters of support. In 2025, the Consortium formally became a division of the HBCU CJC. The Consortium provides a collaborative space for administrators and faculty at HBCUs with graduate programs in criminal justice and criminology to strengthen leadership capacity, expand graduate student engagement in research and professional conferences, and pursue external funding opportunities.

 

The Consortium is co-led by Dr. Kideste Yusef and Dr. Jessica Genao-Davis and is housed at the Center for Law and Social Justice at Bethune-Cookman University.