NDU is leading the way to a new era in Joint Professional Military Education by transforming the way we help students to become strategic leaders.

1. THE CHAIRMAN’S UNIVERSITY
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
Imagine, Create and Secure a Stronger Peace…
by Educating, Developing and Inspiring…
Leaders of Wisdom, Character and Strength…
THE CHAIRMAN’S UNIVERSITY
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
Joint Education Transformation
NDU-P Meeting
26 February 2014

2. PRESENTERS NAME
DATE
Strategic Goals
Education and Leader Development:
Educates, develops and inspires
national security leaders
Scholarship: Creates, preserves, and
disseminates knowledge
Institutional Enablers: Creates
integrated solutions and services
University Improvement: Evolves to
foster institutional collaboration and
integration
Strategic Intent
Evolve into One University marked by preeminence and
collegiality across the institution
Leverage and integrate best practices to produce
synergy, alignment and excellence
Enable continual institutional renewal and
improvement
Imperatives
Advanced joint education and
supporting programs
Joint student body of national
security professionals
Students meet graduate education
performance standards
Joint faculty of scholars
Faculty engaged in knowledge
ceration and dissemination
Values
Academic Excellence Academic Freedom Collaboration Diversity Holistic Development Integrity
Vision
NDU will be the premier National Security Institution for advanced joint education, leader development, and scholarship
Mission
NDU supports the joint warfighter by providing rigorous Joint Professional Military Education to members of the U.S. Armed Forces and select others in order to develop leaders
who have the ability to operate and creatively think in an unpredictable and complex world.
Strategic Plan Framework

3. PRESENTERS NAME
DATE
Goal
Education and Leader
Development:
Educates, develops, and
inspires national security
leaders
Academic programs enable
graduates to lead effectively in a
rapidly changing global security
environment.
Graduates employ
innovative, critical, open, and
systems thinking.
Goal
Scholarship:
Creates, preserves, and
disseminates knowledge
Values and promotes scholarship to
drive leader development for
national and international security.
Fosters a reputation for excellence in
scholarship that attracts and retains a
highly effective faculty and staff of
national and international
prominence.
Develops and maintains an open,
inclusive, and transparent
educational environment of
enterprise-wide collaboration,
academic freedom, and diversity that
supports the pursuit of excellence in
scholarship.
Promotes awareness of, and access
to, NDU scholarship and expertise
across the institution and key
stakeholders.
Goal
Institutional Enablers:
Creates integrated
solutions and services
Workforce is recognized for
excellence in thought leadership and
their profession.
Allocates and manages resources
effectively, efficiently, and
transparently to achieve excellence in
mission success.
Information and educational
technology resources systems are
integrated, robust, accessible, and
enterprise-wide.
Library and information resources are
integrated, robust, accessible, and
enterprise-wide.
Goal
University Improvement:
Evolves/ Reforms to foster
institutional collaboration
and integration
Leads in the
transformation/evolution of joint
professional military education for
2020 and beyond.
Values and promotes an institutional
environment and culture of trust and
openness.
Continually pursues institutional and
academic excellence via institutional
improvement and renewal.
Strategic Plan Framework

4. • Maintain the high standards of education and
training
– “As we continue to advance “One University”
initiatives at National Defense University, we will
update the joint PME curriculum across the force to
emphasize key leader attributes. We will also explore
how best to adapt our learning institutions to serve a
global Joint Force, evaluating degree accreditation
and distance-learning delivery methods.”
» 18th Chairman’s 2nd Term Strategic Guidance to the Joint
Force. Page 10.
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CJCS: Renew Our Commitment to
the Profession of Arms

5. • For AY 2014/2015 (Guidance from the Chairman
to LtGen Waldhauser)
– Tighten JMPE programs
– Incorporate
• Ethics and the Profession of Arms
• Desired Leader Attributes for Joint Force 2020
• Lessons from Decade of War
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CJCS: Renew Our Commitment to
the Profession of Arms

6. • National Defense University evolves and reforms the
processes, practices, structures, organization, and
culture to foster institutional collaboration and
integration.
– NDU will henceforth define "One University" as a national
institution of higher learning under the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff capable of creating, developing, and
disseminating knowledge focused on advanced joint
education, leader development, and scholarship. The
characteristics and attributes of "One University" will
guide our near-term planning and resourcing efforts and
provide a foundation for building the NDU of the future.
NDU Strategic Goal Four:
University Improvement

7. • Sub-Goal 4.1: National Defense University leads in the
transformation/evolution of joint professional military
education for 2020 and beyond.
– 4.1.1.1 Develop and promote a vision for the future of joint
professional military education.
– 4.1.1.2 Develop and promote a recommended structure for joint
professional military education.
– 4.1.1.3 Develop a plan for a terminal degree in joint professional
military education and/or national security education.
• Sub-Goal 4.2: National Defense University values and promotes
an institutional environment and culture of trust and
openness.
• Sub-Goal 4.3: National Defense University continually pursues
institutional and academic excellence via improvement and
renewal.
NDU Goal Four:
University Improvement

8. • A sequential three phased academic curriculum:
– Integrates critical thinking skills and the Chairman’s Desired
Leader Attributes throughout
– Phase I
• Ethics and the Profession of Arms,
• Desired Leader Attributes
• Lessons from the Decade of War
• JPME/National security core curricula common to all components
– Phase II – college core requirements
– Phase III – Electives and Capstone
• A common academic calendar which includes a standard
daily schedule across the University
• An individualized student learning contract and plan
NDU’s Joint Education
Transformation

9. • Assessment
– Chairman’s Guidance
• Places NDU at the forefront in the evolution of JPME
• Incorporates:
– Ethics and the Profession of Arms
– Desired Leader Attributes
– Lessons from the Decade of War
• Adapts our learning institution to serve a global Joint Force
– NDU-P and Provost Guidance
Joint Education Transformation