Taking One For The Team

The Huntsville (TX) Item has a story about one of my colleagues, Rob Worley, who has generously funded a memorial scholarship for students at Sam Houston State University, where he received his PhD in criminology. He worked his way through graduate school as a corrections officer in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for seven years, which served the threefold purpose of giving him credibility in his scholarly work, of fueling his research agenda, and, most prosaically but at the time most importantly, of paying the bills. Kudos to Dr. Worley.