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Vice Admiral James B.
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Center Mission
Authorized by the Secretary of the Navy in 1998, the
Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics
(CSPME) undertook an ambitious mission – to promote
and enhance the ethical development of current and
future military leaders. In February 2006, the
Superintendent of the Naval Academy directed the
expansion of the Center, and the Center was renamed
the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for
Ethical Leadership.
The Center could not have a finer model as its
namesake than this most distinguished graduate of
the United States Naval Academy. Admiral Stockdale
was a man of unsurpassed courage and integrity who
clearly understood the gravity of a leader’s moment
of ethical decision. Consistent with this
fundamental link between ethics and leadership, the
Center redefined its mission: Empower leaders to
make courageous ethical decisions. The Center seeks
to accomplish this important mission through
research, consultation, innovation, dissemination,
and facilitation.
Through research, the Center identifies and studies
important emerging ethical leadership issues.
Through consultation, it assists high-level leaders
in tackling complex ethical leadership issues.
Through innovation, the Center develops new ways to
strengthen and accelerate ethical leadership
development. The Center disseminates its learning
and innovations via lectures, print publications,
and multi-media, made available on the Web. Through
facilitation, the Center connects people, programs,
and experiences. Through these efforts, and our
broad reach and impact, the Vice Admiral James B.
Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership achieves its
bold vision: Transform ethical leadership
development worldwide.
To help achieve these goals, the Stockdale Center supports the following types of programs:
Midshipman Programs
Midshipman programs are intended to
help foster the
seven attributes
of a Naval Academy graduate that the academy has
distilled as the concrete expression of the Navy values
of honor courage and commitment:
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Selfless leaders who
value diversity and create an ethical command climate
through their example of personal integrity and moral
courage.
• Mentally resilient and
physically fit officers, who inspire their team to
accomplish the most challenging missions, including
leading in combat.
• Technically and
academically proficient professionals with a commitment
to continual learning.
• Critical thinkers and
creative decision makers with a bias for action.
• Effective communicators.
• Adaptable individuals
who understand and appreciate global and cross-cultural
dynamics.
• Role models dedicated to
the profession of arms, the traditions and values of the
Naval Service and the constitutional foundation of the
United States.
Among the
midshipmen programs sponsored by
the StockdaleCenter are the Lawrence Ethics Essay Awards,
the Annual Moral Courage lecture, the Stutt lecture
series, an exchange program with the Naval Reserve
Officer Training Corps (NROTC) unit at the University of
San Diego, Ethics Bowl competitions, publication of the
book Ethical Leadership for the Junior Officer,
the Service Academy Program of the Auschwitz Jewish
Center of Poland/New York, and the Low
Ropes leadership training program
Navy, Marine Corps and National Programs
The Stockdale Center supports ethical leadership programs in the Navy and Marine Corps and networks with
civilian organizations and institutions that have strong commitments to
such leadership programs.
Representatives from the
Stockdale Center regularly consult
around the country,
and around the world on matters of ethics and
leadership. The Stockdale Center also offers
innovative
teaching tools which utilize research on ethical
decision making that was carried out by staff, on this
web site.
Faculty and Staff Programs
The Stockdale Center for
Ethical Leadership undertakes efforts to ensure that faculty and staff are integral partners in the
development of the Brigade's leadership, character, and ethics. The Center annually selects a diverse
group of faculty from within the Academy and outside as
visiting Fellows. The Fellows are provided
opportunity to do research in the fields of leadership, character development, and ethics, as well as
the opportunity to teach in the Naval Academy's core leadership and/or ethics courses.
For more on these initiatives, please visit the
Stockdale Center Programs
page.
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