Debates over whether police officers should be required to have college degrees and whether such degrees improve officers' performance has been ensuing for decades, with little agreement or consensus emerging. Higher education has been presumed to make police more efficient at performing their jobs. Other research findings speculate that higher education may be irrelevant because the education officers receive at a college/university is quite similar to the training officers receive in police academies. However, little direction has been decided upon. In 2008, I asked my Research Methods in Criminal Justice class to assist me with a research project to further explore this debate. The literature provided us with a vague percentage--1% of police departments in the United States required or mandated a degree. This case study provides an account of a research methods class of 18 students, who helped their professor pursue a research question that led to a publication. We, as a class, pursued many challenges of exploratory research, including locating respondents, designing and implementing a questionnaire, taking the proposal through our Institutional Review Board, distributing surveys, collecting responses, analyzing the data, and writing up the report for presentation and publication. [This content is provided in the format of an e-book.]