The Citadel Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice served as a co-host of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Domestic Security Conference Feb. 28-29. This is one in a series of conferences that explore the convergence of crime and terrorism. The conference was open to Citadel students, faculty and staff.
Highlights of the conference included a keynote address from Lt. Gen. Frank Libutti, Citadel Class of 1966. Libutti is the former New York Police Department deputy commissioner for counterterrorism and under secretary for information analysis and infrastructure protection directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. He spoke at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28 at the Embassy Suites in downtown Charleston.
The lunch speaker on Friday, Feb. 29 was terrorism analyst Peter Bergen. Bergen is CNN's on-air analyst and author of "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden." Bergen is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama Bin Laden. Bergen's speech will take place in the Regimental Commanders Riverview Room.
Other conference speakers included Domingo Herraiz, director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance; George Kelling, co-author of "Fixing Broken Windows;" Judith Miller, former New York Times investigative reporter and chiefs and state police superintendents from states located along the Interstate 95 corridor.
Topics covered gun trafficking and the potential for terrorists, like criminals, to exploit our interstate highway system and will also include a panel on intelligence sharing and the war on terror.
Women who have succeeded in education and government will share their stories during Women's History Month at The Citadel.
"Women as Leaders: Lessons Learned for Success" was kicked off and will become an annual symposium event sponsored by The Citadel Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice.
The symposium and panel discussion was 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13 in Graham Copeland Auditorium in Grimsley Hall. It was free and open to the public.
Panelists included women in leadership from local governmental agencies as well as The Citadel, Medical University of South Carolina and Trident Technical College. Panelists are:
- Elise Davis-McFarland, vice president for student Ssrvices, Trident Technical College
- Anne Kilpatrick, professor of health administration, MUSC
- Tamara Curry, Charleston County probate judge,
- Erica Carter, program director, It's Up To Me teen pregnancy prevention program and adjunct professor of public policy The Citadel.
