Initiative Description:

• Combines several existing efforts with new programs to further improve leadership teaching and learning in and out of the classroom
  • Leadership Education
    • Establish endowed Leadership Development Chair to lead curriculum development, and teach
    • Develop and update leadership case studies
    • Establish and coordinate an inspiring classroom guest speaker series
    • Establish funded Visiting Leadership Fellows who will bring mature leadership experience to the classroom
    • Improve midshipman leadership skills through better integration of leadership concepts and principles in the curriculum
  • Leadership Programs
    • Continue the highly successful Class of '38 Leaders Forum
    • Manage the Class of '38 Leadership Library and Class of '36 "Great Leaders Biography Wall"
    • Conduct an annual Naval Leadership Conference
  • Leadership Support
    • Provide foundation for midshipmen's personal leadership library
    • Fully endow the Distinguished Leadership Chair
    • Fully endow the Distinguished Chair in Ethics
    • Conduct summer leadership instructor training
    • Create a Leadership Enhancement Center

Expected Outcome/Benefit:

• Improve leadership development and education
• Enhance USNA's position as a national resource for the study of leadership
• Provide midshipmen a broader opportunity to engage proven leaders
• Allow leadership and ethics faculty to focus more on teaching and scholarship

Executive Sponsor:  Commandant