The faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice are fully committed to providing a teaching/learning environment that sustains instructional excellence and intellectual inquiry across a variety of graduate and undergraduate degree programs, to serve a diverse student body committed to excellence and high levels of achievement, and to provide academic advising and other support to students as they move through the university and into their careers. Departmental faculty are professionally productive as active scholars engaged in significant professional activities at the regional, national, and international levels while also conducting sound academic and applied research as seen in publications in refereed research journals, monographs and books, and reports to various public and private agencies that might sponsor such work.