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About This Site and How It Is Sourced
Sponsorship disclosure: This website has been paid for by the University of Phoenix.
Editorial model: This site is a disclosed sponsored educational resource about criminal justice, corrections, justice administration, public administration, public safety, and related public service program-selection questions. Pages are organized around source-verifiable categories such as accreditation, degree level, curriculum, scheduling format, transfer credit, admissions, tuition, and role-specific career requirements.
Source-first framing: Federal occupational sources, federal education taxonomy sources, accreditor directories, agency publications, and institution-owned program documents are used for the factual claims they directly support. BLS and O*NET support broad occupational context. NCES CIP pages support field-classification context. DAPIP, CHEA, HLC, and NASPAA support accreditation and recognition context. Institution pages support only the institution-specific program facts they state.
Limits of information: This site does not publish institutional rankings, provide program-ranking lists, compare named schools, guarantee admission, guarantee transfer credit, guarantee employment, guarantee licensure or certification eligibility, or substitute for an employer, agency, civil-service authority, licensing board, or school catalog. Career requirements for law enforcement, corrections, probation, public safety, emergency management, and public administration roles vary by employer and jurisdiction and should be verified with the authority that controls the role.
University of Phoenix context: University of Phoenix is the sponsor of this site. Where University of Phoenix appears in topic pages, it is used only as a source-backed institutional example and not as a ranking or recommendation over other institutions. In 2019, University of Phoenix settled FTC allegations related to marketing and recruiting conduct from 2012 to 2016 under prior ownership by Apollo Education Group. The settlement resulted in a negotiated $191 million stipulated judgment in which the University of Phoenix did not admit any wrongdoing. The FTC settlement is a consumer-protection regulatory record, not an HLC accreditation action. These facts are included for temporal context and should not be expanded into unsupported present-tense claims.