Room: 520.20 T
Phone: 212-237-8689
Email: rrichardson@jjay.cuny.edu
Professor Rick Richardson has had a long association with John
Jay. He came to the college as an undergraduate interested in the substance
abuse program offered at John Jay. A
1988, PSC Belle Zeller scholar, he graduated from John Jay Summa Cum Laude in 1990,
simultaneously earning a graduate degree in Forensic Psychology. He went on to
earn a graduate degree in Sociology from Fordham University, specializing in
the evaluation and promulgation of minority mental health programs and policy.
Professor Richardson also earned an M.S.W. in clinical social work from the
Hunter School of Social Work, in 1995.
Professor Richardson has been teaching in the Sociology
Department at John Jay since 1990.
Along with mainstay courses like Introductory Sociology (Soc-101), and
Criminology (Soc-203), he teaches courses that are part of the Substance Abuse
Certificate program: Drug Use and Abuse (Soc-110), and Substance Abuse and
Family Dysfunction (Soc-161). Other courses he has taught include Evaluation of
Social Programs, The Family, and he has developed a new course, Sociology of
Mental Illness (Soc-290), which will be presented in the spring term of 2003.
Professor Richardson remains a committed activist within the John
Jay community. As an undergraduate he served in student government, and
continued his involvement over the years serving on the faculty senate and
college council as well as numerous college wide policy and evaluative
committees. He believes that the fundamental principles of sociology that are
imparted to his students will, if utilized, maximize an individual’s, or
group’s potential for positive change, in a world that seems to conspire to
hold some of its inhabitants back from the goals that they seek.