{"id":80378,"date":"2017-05-02T23:18:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80378"},"modified":"2017-05-02T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:23:36","slug":"criminal-justice-professor-receives-mscs-distinguished-faculty-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80378","title":{"rendered":"Criminal justice professor receives MSC\u2019s Distinguished Faculty Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dr. Clare Armstrong-Seward of Smyrna has been named Morrisville State College\u2019s Distinguished Faculty Award recipient.<\/p>\n

The award is presented annually to a faculty member who displays professional growth, personal and professional achievement and has provided outstanding service to the college.\u00a0She will be recognized during the college\u2019s 106th<\/sup>commencement ceremony on May 6 at 1 p.m.<\/span> in the recreation center.<\/p>\n

Armstrong-Seward, associate professor of criminal justice and chair of the college\u2019s Criminal Justice Department, began her career with MSC at the Norwich campus in 2003, after working in the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for 26 years.<\/p>\n

She has developed numerous courses and programs while at MSC, including the college\u2019s associate and bachelor\u2019s degrees in criminal justice. She also started Alpha Phi Sigma, Mu Beta chapter, an honor society for criminal justice students and the college\u2019s Criminal Justice Club, serving as advisor of both.<\/p>\n

The recipient of many accolades in criminal justice, Armstrong-Seward is the first woman to receive the New York State Medal of Honor and was also recognized in a legislative resolution by the New York State Assembly. Both honors were for her courage and bravery handling a hostage situation. She was also profiled by the American Correctional Association in its international magazine Corrections Today<\/em> as its first subject of the \u201cBest in the Business\u201d column series.<\/p>\n

Armstrong-Seward has taught numerous workshops and courses and has developed and conducted corrections and accreditation training programs. She also represents the American Correctional Association as a consultant, conducting accreditation audits throughout the nation.<\/p>\n

In addition to her commitment in the classroom, Armstrong-Seward is dedicated in the community, serving as a certified instructor with the Municipal Police Training Council. She also has been a volunteer firefighter with the Smyrna Fire Department for more than 25 years, was a volunteer EMT for 15 years and was also a skills instructor.<\/p>\n

Her teaching career has been decorated with accolades, including the 2013 SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes outstanding skill in the classroom, as well as Student Government awards for Outstanding Faculty and Best Academic Advisor.<\/p>\n

Armstrong-Seward is also involved with numerous organizations, including membership in the\u00a0 Correctional Accreditation Managers\u2019 Association, Corrections and Youth Services Association of New York, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and New York State Women in Law Enforcement.<\/p>\n

The founder of the Historical Association for Corrections, she is also a member and certified scuba diver for the\u00a0Professional Association of Diving Instructors and Scuba Schools International, two of the largest scuba diving certification organizations in the world. She has taken numerous advancement courses and extensively studied underwater forensics.<\/p>\n

Armstrong-Seward earned an A.A.S. in criminal justice at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, a B.S. in sociology at the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, an M.A. in political science with an emphasis in public policy analysis and administration at Binghamton University SUNY, and a D.B.A. in business administration from California Coast University.<\/p>\n

She and her husband, Chuck Seward, live in Smyrna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Clare Armstrong-Seward of Smyrna has been named Morrisville State College\u2019s Distinguished Faculty Award recipient. The award is presented annually to a faculty member who displays professional growth, personal and professional achievement and has provided outstanding service to the college.\u00a0She will be recognized during the college\u2019s 106thcommencement ceremony on May 6 at 1 p.m. in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-kUq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Clare-Armstrong-Seward-2.jpg?fit=1488%2C2094&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}