1. Educating Leaders to Win in a Complex World

2. The Army Operating Concept
The Challenge
An Army education system that prepares leaders for the complex 21st Century security environment
The Army Operating Concept
Portends an increasingly volatile and uncertain world. Winning in a Complex World requires “innovative, adaptive leaders and cohesive teams who thrive in those complex and uncertain environments.”

3. ArmyU Vision and Initiatives
Recognized for its academic rigor and relevance
Respected as a prestigious educational institution
Acknowledged for its management practices and institutional agility
Develop World Class Faculty
Produce relevant curriculum
Grow qualified students
Adopt nationally recognized standards
Improve professional research/publication
Create an innovative learning environment
Expand public/private partnerships
Implement new business and governance practices
Agile, adaptive, and innovative Army Professionals
Intellectual overmatch of potential adversaries
Operational agility
Enhanced Army Professional Military Education
Broadened Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) I and II
Committed professionals…Soldiers for Life
Force 2025 and Beyond
Vision for the Army: To build the intellectual capacity required by the future security environment
Rigor and relevance: Starts within
Prestige comes from external perceptions- not just because we say so…
It’s not just WHAT we do but HOW we do it that matters in the support of the Army’s mission
Army University supports the six strategic ends you see listed on the left of the graphic
These ends are key components in enabling Force 2025 and beyond
To achieve these ends, Army University will pursue EIGHT initiatives
Quality faculty is the top priority of Army University
Faculty includes military and civilian
Recruit
Develop
Retain
Curriculum- enough said…
Students
Assessments and continual opportunities- NOT just at career milestones
Standards
College credit
Credentials
Teaching
Assessing
ArmyU will also create the Army Press
Combining Military Review and Combat Studies Institute
To promote and facilitate Army professionals to write and publish
Innovative learning environment
Not just brick and mortar
Live, virtual, constructive
Online
Mobile
Integration and synchronization of learning experiences to limit needless redundancy
Public and private partnerships with colleges and universities, businesses and industry
Change is hard…
ArmyU will see new ways of doing things and new relationships within the enterprise
…positioned as a premier learning institution capable of educating leaders to win in a complex world.

4. ArmyU System Vice Chancellor for Strategic Edu.
Army War College*
United States Military
Academy*
Army University Chancellor
Training and Doctrine Command
Reserve
Training Centers*
Cadet Command
(ROTC)
Specialized Training
(Medical, Chaplain, Legal, SOF)*
* “External” to TRADOC; policy and common core coordination
Defense Language
Inst.
Fires (Artillery, Air Defense Artillery)
Aviation
Cyber (Cyber, Signal)
Intelligence
Maneuver Support (Military Police, Engineer, CBRN)
Maneuver (Infantry, Armor)
Sustainment (Quartermaster, Ordnance, Transportation)
Mission Command
Centers of Excellence
and Schools
Army Univ. Vice Chancellor
Combined Arms Center
Sergeant Major Academy
Command and General Staff College
Command and General Staff School
Army Management Staff College
Warrant Officer Career College
School of Advanced Military Studies
School for Command Preparation
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
Army University Provost
TRADOC Culture
Center
Colleges and Schools

5. Army University Concept
Demonstrates the Army’s commitment to education by increasing the academic rigor and priority of Professional Military Education
Increases the rate of innovation across the educational enterprise in support of the Army Operating Concept
Creates a common understanding of education across the Total Army and empowers institutional agility through unity of effort and networked collaboration
Promotes partnering and networking with civilian universities and industry that expands and improves:
Research and Publishing
Faculty Development
Degree Opportunities
Enables Soldier professional development with credit hours and certifications
Fosters synchronization across all four cohorts (Officer / Enlisted / Warrant / Civilian) in TRADOC
Optimizes internal resources by eliminating redundancies
Leverages prestige and resources of external organizations
Integrates education across over 70 separate TRADOC (internal) schools consolidated under one university system and synchronizes over 100 additional TRADOC institutions
Curriculum Development
Technical Certification Opportunities
“Training with Industry” Programs

6. U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth
Discussion…
U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Lieutenant General Sir William F. Butler, 1907

7. BACKUP
Backup

8. What We Have Accomplished/Working On….
HD Progress - ArmyU
What We Have Accomplished/Working On….
Institutionalizing the Professionalization of the Army
ArmyU Cost Benefit Analysis
The ArmyU Concept Plan
Establishment of The Army Press
ALCC Charter Revisions
# of Leg. Proposals Submitted
Trademark Protection
Developing Total Army Professionals
Gender Integration Common Core
Cross-cohort GLOs
Warrant Officer ILE Pilot (3Q)
NCO Common Core (ALC, SLC)
ASCC Learning Spt Synch (USARAF)
AMSC Changes w/ CWT

9. What We Have Accomplished/Working On….
HD Progress - ArmyU
What We Have Accomplished/Working On….
Integrating Military & Civilian Education
Army University Symposium
Regional Collaboration
Draft Army Credentialing Strategy
Draft Credentialing Implementation Plan
ACE, Direct CPL + POI review
JST – IPPSA
Agility, Adaptability, and Innovation through Increased Rigor
Common Faculty Development Pgm
Cohort expansion of Instr. Badging
HLC Credentialing of CGSC
Revised QAO for Learning Pgms