International Affairs Brief

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International Affairs Brief
enhances
Research
Curriculum
drives
Department of Defense Goals
Language Proficiency Regional Expertise Cultural
Awareness
prepares cadets for
enhances
Immersion
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USMA Mission
To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of
Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned
leader of character committed to the values of
Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of
professional excellence and service to the Nation
as an officer in the United States Army.
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Our orientation
The nation that makes a great distinction
between its scholars and its warriors will have
its thinking done by cowards and its fighting
done by fools. - Thucydides
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Academic Program Goals

• Graduates anticipate and respond effectively to
  the uncertainties of a changing technological,
  social, political, and economic world.
• As Army Leaders, they
• demonstrate Creativity
• Moral awareness
• Commitment to continued
  intellectual development
• Effective listening, speaking, reading, and
  writing skills
• understand Culture
• History
• Patterns of Human
  Behavior
• Mathematics and Science
• Engineering and Technology
• Information Technology

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Agenda

• Model Components
• Issues
• Road Forward

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Key Components(Curriculum)
Research
Curriculum
Department of Defense Goals
Language Proficiency Regional Expertise Cultural
Awareness
Immersion
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Key Components(Curriculum)
Curriculum
Enhancement 20 professors

• Language Instruction five days a week
• 0 cadets take language 5 days/week currently.
• 75 cadets will take language 5 days/week
  starting August 2007.
• 25 cadets will certify into/take intermediate
  language 3 days/week.
• Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative
• Currently 2006
• All cadets take 2 semesters
• 1 take at least 3 semesters
• 2 take at least 4 semesters
• 15 take 4 semesters
• August 2007
• All cadets take 2 semesters
• 13 take at least 3 semesters
• 33 take at least 4 semesters
• 15 take 4 semesters

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Key Components(Immersion)
Research
Curriculum
DoD Goals
Language Proficiency Regional Expertise Cultural
Awareness
Immersion
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2LT
Cadet Developmental Path
Needs of the Army
Capstone
Semester Abroad
Advanced Language
RUN
Summer Immersion
Intermediate Language
WALK
Spring Immersion
Basic Language

• To develop
• Adaptive Leaders
• Effective Problem Solvers
• Culturally Aware Communicators

CRAWL
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Key Components(Immersion)
Immersion
Impact 580 cadets

• 2-5 week immersion programs (430 cadets)
• Foreign military schools
• Foreign Advanced Individual Academic Development
  (AIAD) (180 cadets)
• Foreign Academy Exchange Program (37 cadets)
• Spring Immersion (200 cadets)
• Other (ODIA, USCC)
• Semester immersion programs (150 Cadets)

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Cadet AIADs
Cadets in Bahrain
This AIAD was an indispensable experience. My
drive to learn the Arabic language increased
exponentially because I observed directly the
connections made when you show interest in
another persons language and culture. -CDT
Jeremy Brandenberg
Cadets in Brazil
The AIAD to Brazil was by far the most amazing
experience of my cadet career. Being there and
observing the culture and actively taking part in
their way of life was surreal.- CDT Kevin Filer

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Vietnamese AIADs
This unique experience allowed me to gain an
understanding of the country, which I believe I
could not obtain solely from books. Already, as
I explore available texts, the images identified
within the writing more vividly resound in my
minds eye, since I have a reference point - CDT
Renée Rysiewicz.
Even living next to New York City my whole life I
was unprepared for the frantic pace of Vietnamese
culture. As I gradually adjusted, I became fond
of this hectic lifestyle which oozed a sort of
seductive charm in its chaotic nature. Where the
American culture can be seen as a sort of stately
waltz, in its methodical, even-paced approach to
life the Vietnamese approach life more as a
salsa with rapidly changing tempos and a slim
veil of organization containing a rippling mass
of activity. - CDT Paul Wistermayer
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China AIADs
Visiting and exploring Tibet is something that I
will remember forever and I was able to see first
hand issues people talk of. CDT Christopher
Behm
Overall, my experience in China has allowed me to
learn more about a culture I never would have
been able to learn about. It was one of the best
experiences Ive had at West Point This
experience has opened my eyes to different
culture and helped me build relationships with
people who dont even speak the same language.-
CDT Kevin Smith
This trip provided me with an opportunity to be
immersed in the language in a way that cannot be
duplicated in the classroom. That experience
allowed me to grow in my language skills, learn
about the culture of China and enhanced my
enthusiasm for Chinese. CDT Justin Messenger
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Russia AIADs
I believe that part of serving in the military,
especially now, requires soldiers, and mostly
officers to speak with and relate to people.
This opportunity required me to do just that.
Within 24 hours of being in Russia I was living
with a Russian family. - CDT Jessica Forrester
Having the chance to be completely immersed has
significantly increased my listening
comprehension and my grammar as well as
confidence in my abilities. This AIAD to
Voronezh was an invaluable experience and I would
do it again if given the chance. CDT Thomas
Morkes
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Key Components(Research)
Research
Curriculum
Assess and Innovate
DoD Goals
Language Proficiency Regional Expertise Cultural
Awareness
Immersion
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Key Components(Research)
Research
Assess and Innovate

• Research(Research Center Lead, AAD Support)
• Effect of Cadet Foreign Language Proficiency Pay
• Effect of five day a week training on language
  proficiency
• Metrics for
• Cultural Awareness
• Regional Expertise
• Effect of Short Term Immersion (2-5 week) on
  language proficiency, cultural awareness,
  regional expertise.
• Effect of Long Term Immersion (semester) on
  language proficiency, cultural awareness,
  regional expertise

• Assessment (AAD Lead, Research Center Support)
• Integration into CLDS
• Integration into Assessment Steering Committee
  and Academic Goals
• Effect on integrity of 47 month cadet experience
• Effect on cadet summer scheduling
• Effect on Greenbook and cadet graduation
  requirements (MDS in particular)
• Effect on faculty availability over summer
• Staffing
• Language Proficiency Researcher
• Regional Expertise Researcher
• Cultural Awareness Researcher

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Key Components(Management)
Research
Curriculum
DoD Goals
Language Proficiency Regional Expertise Cultural
Awareness
Immersion
Information Technology
Management
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Key Components(Management)
Management
Staff Oversight, Admin, Country Clearances

• Superintendents International Cooperation Office
• Personnel
• Chief, ICO
• Deputy, ICO
• Program Specialist

• Deans International Affairs Office
• Personnel
• Assistant Dean for International Affairs
• Distance Education Specialist
• Program Specialist
• Program Specialist

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Key Components(Management)
Management

• International Cooperation Office
• Synchronize all international USMA programs.
• Proponent for USMA Reg 11-31
• Manage Foreign Academy Exchange Program
• Process and track country clearances
• Process and track security clearances and
  debriefs necessary for international affairs

• International Affairs Office
• Proponent for DPOMs related to international
  affairs.
• Manage the curriculum, immersion (-FAEP), and
  research components
• Manage foreign military development schools
• Manage foreign AIADs
• Manage Semester Exchange Program
• Manage Semester Abroad Program
• Develop, field, and support a distance education
  program to facilitate the semester abroad
  programs
• Develop, field, and coordinate the necessary
  information technology infrastructure for
  immersion programs
• Facilitate research and assessment programs
  associated with International Affairs.

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Key Components(Information Technology)
Research
Curriculum
DoD Goals
Language Proficiency Regional Expertise Cultural
Awareness
Immersion
Information Technology
Management
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Key Components(Information Technology)
Information Technology

• Fund information technology for hired faculty
  with a four year replacement plan.
• Fund a Virtual Private Network (VPN) concentrator
  for all cadets.
• Fund air cards (and cellular minutes) that ride
  the cellular network so that deployed cadets can
  VPN back to the military academy regardless of
  the host nation infrastructure.

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Agenda

• Model Components
• Issues
• Road Forward

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Model Component Issues(Curriculum)

• Space for New Faculty Plan is to move new DFL
  faculty into space vacated by CEP (moving into
  Jefferson Hall)
• Faculty Blend of Excellence in DFL Use Refocus
  and Faculty Reallocation Model to balance across
  academic program
• Balancing faculty between seven mini-departments
  Arabic instructor cannot teach Russian. Use
  Faculty Reallocation Model over long term.
• Sequencing of Additional Language Courses for HSS
  majors Change will likely force cow core courses
  into firstie year. Additional analysis is
  necessary to assess change.

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Model Component Issues(Immersion)

• Legislative Limits on Foreign Military Academy
  Exchanges
• Cadet Requirements during the Summer
• Faculty Time (subset of Faculty Development
  Model)
• Integrity of the Curriculum
• Integrity of the Cadet Experience

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Model Component Issues(Immersion)

• Textbook Issue
• Country Internet Blocking
• Course Start Synchronization
• Instant Messenger Support

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Model Component Issues(Research)

• Space
• Dean versus Departmental Center

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Model Component Issues(Management)

• Consistent processes
• Country Clearances
• AIADs
• Summer scheduling
• Alignment of Distance Education under IA as
  opposed to CTE
• Leveraging foreign visitors
• Leveraging foreign exchange cadets
• Role of the International Advisory Council

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Model Component Issues(Information Technology)

• Identification of immersion countries and
  supporting cellular coverage.
• Procurement of appropriate devices and
  negotiation of shared minutes contract.
• Identification and procurement of additional
  distance education hardware and software.

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Agenda

• Model Components
• Issues
• Discussion

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Last Slide
enhances
Research
Curriculum
drives
DoD Goals
Language Proficiency Regional Expertise Cultural
Awareness
prepares cadets for
enhances
Immersion