{"id":72765,"date":"2021-05-25T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=72765"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:23:07","slug":"ho-cj-rotc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/ho-cj-rotc\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlisted Criminal Justice Graduate Sets Sights on Prison Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Ho (MET\u201921), one of 2021\u2019s proud BU MET graduates and now a recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/degrees-certificates\/ms-criminal-justice\/\">Master of Science in Criminal Justice<\/a>, works to make change in the world. Her master\u2019s studies have come alongside a Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) education.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/met\/files\/2021\/05\/ho-cj-mitn-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Ho (MET\u201921)\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-72770\" width=\"540\" height=\"404\" \/>Ho has been serving in the Army since 2013, and began her studies at MET after being encouraged by a fellow officer to take advantage of the veterans\u2019 benefits available to active-duty US military personnel at BU. Now, Ho has been inspired by BU MET\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prison Education Program<\/a> to use her education to reform the corrections system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBU was one of the first universities to offer some form of education to the incarcerated population,\u201d Ho told <em>BU Today<\/em>. \u201cThat was one of the things that drew me to it in the first place. I\u2019m passionate about corrections\u2014yes, someone committed a crime. The question is, how can we help them better themselves during their incarceration so they can integrate back into civilian life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A first-generation Vietnamese American, Ho\u2019s desire to make improvements in our shared society is a deeply personal one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents came here with nothing, and they worked really, really hard to make a better life for their family\u2014like many people in this country,\u201d she says. \u201cMy JROTC officers were always reminding us, \u2018Don\u2019t forget where you came from.\u2019 I serve because I wanted to give back to not only my parents, but to my community, and most of all, to my country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/meet-three-remarkable-class-of-2021-masters-degree-grads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>BU Today<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Ho (MET\u201921), one of 2021\u2019s proud BU MET graduates and now a recipient of the Master of Science in Criminal Justice, works to make change in the world. Her master\u2019s studies have come alongside a Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) education. Ho has been serving in the Army since 2013, and began her studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13440,"featured_media":72769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,59,37,188,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72774,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72765\/revisions\/72774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}