UAlbany's Judicial Affairs: smellin' like a felon

John M. Murphy, when he was the head of UAlbany's Judicial Affairs had written in his 2000-2001 Annual Report:

"The Director of Judicial Affairs continues to serve as University liaison with the Office of Parole in the New York State Department of Corrections. This responsibility requires the investigation of criminal histories for convicted felons who are seeking admission to the University. In the past few years since the felony conviction question was placed on the application for admissions, the number of applicants who were convicted felons increased. For example, in 1996 there were six applicants and that number increased to twenty-one in 1999-2000 and twenty-eight this past year. The preceding year the number was twenty applicants and we must assume that this significant increase will continue in the future. In addition, applicants dismissed or suspended from other colleges or universities have their conduct reviewed as part of the admissions process. Judicial Affairs continues to work closely with of the Offices of Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions to ensure these special applicants are reviewed with great care. In addition, Judicial Affairs has been called upon to resolve several cases of students admitted to the University after providing falsified information on their applications."

http://www.albany.edu/studentsuccess/assessment/docs/AR%202000-01%20-%20FINAL.pdf

The statistics are presented in a rather jumbled way. I think they're unscrambled like so:

Convicted felons seeking admission to the University at Albany

[University at Albany transitions from Division III to Division II athletics]

• 1996: 6

• 1997: [not stated]

• 1998: 20

[University at Albany transitions from Division II to Division I athletics]

• 1999-2000: 21

• 2000-2001: 28

• 2002-future: "we must assume that this significant increase will continue"

For Murphy's 2001-2002 Annual Report http://www.albany.edu/studentsuccess/assessment/docs/AR%202001-02%20-%20FINAL.pdf he copied and pasted the above paragraph. He thus did not provide any information about how many applicants with felonies there had been for 2001-2002. If that's sloppiness, that's a heck of a thing to be sloppy about.

If the University at Albany has reported the number of convicted felons seeking admission after 2000-2001, I've so far been unable to find where they're reporting that. It's no longer in the annual report of the Judicial Affairs office (since retitled the Office of Conflict Resolution and Civic Responsibility).

John M. Murphy's the University at Albany's Clery Act Compliance Officer at present.