education
COVID Grand Rounds Today at 1630 EST
Sorry, but I just found out about this one, and it is today at 1630 EST. It is titled:
COVID-19 Therepeutics: “The 3-Legged Stool” Featuring Dr. Michael Joyner, of the Mayo Clinic
Details are in this PDF document.
Navy Announces New Mid-Career Officer Graduate Education Opportunity
Washington, DC (NNS) — The Navy is now calling for applications to a new graduate education program to be piloted this fall, with 80 officers expected to start low-residency opportunities offered by up to eight partner schools.
The Low-Residency Graduate Education Program (LGEP) is designed to provide due-course naval officers in paygrades O-2 to O-5 the chance to get a Navy-funded graduate degree in one of three disciplines — strategy, management or international relations.
The pilot program was announced last week in Naval Administrative Message (NAVADMIN) 204/20, which requests that applications be submitted by August 2.
“This initiative is the product of close collaboration between the Chief Learning Officer (CLO), N7, and the warfare communities,” said VADM Stuart Munsch, former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Development and service-lead for naval education, whose office helped to champion the new program. “Once implemented, LGEP will give officers with compressed career paths an opportunity to pursue a graduate degree that fulfills education requirements for promotion and milestone screening and contributes directly to Navy warfighting advantage.”
The idea is to give officers on compressed career paths a flexible, Navy-funded option to earn graduate degrees which meet the O-7 promotion eligibility education requirement.
Each program is designed to be completed during a shore-duty tour. This means that selected officers will remain at their duty stations and complete most course work online or via telephone. Residency requirements are met through funded, monthly trips to campus.
The lineup of degree programs range in length from 10 to 24 months. Current partner institutions are Old Dominion University, William and Mary University, American University, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, UCSD, University of Washington, and the Naval Postgraduate School.
In return for the service-funded education, selected officers agree to a continued service obligation of three years, which is served concurrently with any other service obligations they have.
The obligation, which is incurred whether or not the officer completes the degree, starts either on the date of program completion or, should the officer not complete the degree, the date of withdrawal from the program.
This year’s program is a test of concept, designed to gauge the effectiveness of low-residency education delivery models in netting officers required graduation education while also meeting the needs of the Navy for strategy-minded warriors.
If successful, the program could expand opportunities for up to 300 officers annually in future years.
The window for applications this year is open now and runs through August 2. A committee from the office of the CLO will review the applications; selectees will be announced by August 14.
Details on how to apply as well as Navy points of contact can be found in NAVADMIN 204/20, which is available for download here:
LOW-RESIDENCY GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAM – NAVADMIN 204/20.
NOTE: Supplemental material advertised by the NAVADMIN message as available on the Internet (at http://www.navy.mil/local/clo) is not currently available due to technical difficulties. However, the NAVADMIN provides all information necessary for submitting an application to the program.
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For more news from Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Development (N7), visit www.navy.mil/local/OPNAVN7/.
2 Educational Programs – SECDEF Executive Fellows and Low-Residency Graduate Education Program
These are two educational programs that Staff Corps Officers are eligible for and would seem to meet the mark on the new emphasis on advanced education:
- SECDEF Executive Fellows – This program provides a venue for exceptional officers to experience innovative business practices within the nation’s leading business enterprises. Military fellows from each of the Services are paired with senior executives in various companies known for their willingness to challenge and adapt their business practices. All O5-O6 officers are eligible. Details can be found in this NAVADMIN.
- Low-Residency Graduate Education Program (LGEP) – LGEP provides naval officers in paygrades O-2 to O-5 with a Navy-funded graduate degree opportunity in strategy, management and international relations through a low-residency delivery model at selected regionally accredited partner universities or colleges. The LGEP pilot program will offer studies that are designed to fit into shore duty tours, allowing officers with compressed career paths to stay close to the waterfront or flight line while earning a Master’s degree. LGEP study programs range from 10-24 months at partner universities that may include Old Dominion University, William and Mary, American University, Johns Hopkins University, University of California Los Angeles, University of California San Diego, University of Washington, and the Naval Postgraduate School. Participants will remain at their duty stations and spend limited time on campus, completing the remainder of the course material online or via phone. More details can be found in this NAVADMIN or this PPT slide deck.
COVID-19 Life Support Training Update
BLUF – The purpose of this memorandum is to update policy guidance within the Military Health System for American Red Cross life support training (First Aid/cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)/automated external defibrillator (AED), Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Life Support (ALS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)). As military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) transition to normal operations, no further extensions for the above life support certifications will be granted after June 30, 2020. Personnel whose certifications expired between March and June 2020 have up to 120 days to get recertified. This also applies to providers who have American Heart Association cards.
Here’s the full memo.
Joint Chiefs Vision Changes Military Education Philosophy
Here’s a link to this DoD article:
Naval Postgraduate School Executive MBA NAVADMIN
I had previously posted the announcement, but since then we’ve had more emphasis placed on education in our fitreps, so here is the NAVADMIN:
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RMKS/1. This NAVADMIN announces application procedures for the September 2020
Distance Learning Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) program.
2. Background:
a. The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) defense focused EMBA is a 24
month, fully-funded, part-time graduate program focused on financial
management. The program targets middle to senior grade active-duty officers,
lieutenant commander (select) and senior (lieutenant by waiver).
b. Classes are delivered via online technologies with synchronous, live
interaction between faculty and students. All students are required to have a
computer with internet access, a webcam and a microphone.
c. The EMBA program begins with a required one-week Temporary Duty (TDY)
in-residence session at NPS in Monterey, CA., that is currently scheduled for
21-25 September 2020. Pandemic restrictions on travel may result in
rescheduling the in-resident portion. The residency week includes an
orientation and a graduate-level course on the management of teams. A second
week of required TDY in-residence instruction will be scheduled during the
second year of the EMBA program. Other than these two visits to NPS Monterey,
students complete all instruction from their duty locations. The parent
command of the student will provide official travel orders and funding for
TDY travel. If command funding is not available, students may fund their own
travel and utilize no-cost TDY orders from their commands.
d. Active duty Naval officers accepted into the EMBA program are
integrated into cohorts with civilian students. Typically, a cohort is
comprised of approximately 25 students from which student teams are formed.
Cohorts take all classes together during the 24 months of instruction on one
day per week for approximately six to seven hours per day during regular
continental United States duty hours.
3. Criteria:
a. Eligibility requirements include an undergraduate degree from a
regionally accredited 4-year college or university, 2.6 grade point average
or higher on a 4 point scale, and at least one college-level mathematics
course. A commanding officer endorsement letter is required to participate in
the program. Department head or similar mid-level management experience and
strong potential for promotion are preferred. Participants must have a
projected rotation date no earlier than September 2022. The Graduate
Management Admission Test is not required.
b. Admission to the EMBA program is available to applicants in any
geographic location, regardless of the number of applicants in a location.
4. Application Process:
a. Officers interested in the EMBA program can visit the NPS EMBA home
page at www.nps.edu/emba for detailed eligibility and application process
information. Deadline for the application process is no later than 6 July
2020. Online instruction begins 29 September 2020.
5. Post Graduation:
a. Graduates will be awarded an EMBA graduate degree from NPS and the
Navy subspecialty code 3100P, Financial Management-Defense Focus.
Graduates working in acquisition billets will also earn Defense Acquisition
University Level II equivalencies for all program management functional
training.
b. As directed by reference (a), officers participating in this program
must agree to remain on active duty following completion of graduate studies
for a period of 3 years. This obligation is discharged concurrently with any
other service obligation already incurred. This agreement does not obligate
the Navy to retain the officer on active duty.
6. Point of contact:
a. NPS EMBA program office, at (831) 656- 2562/DSN 756, or via e-mail at
emba(at)nps.edu.
7. This message will remain in effect until superseded or 31 December 2020,
whichever occurs first.
8. Released by Vice Admiral S. B. Munsch, Deputy Chief on Naval Operations
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Academic Year 2020-21 Naval War College Fleet Seminar Program (JPME I)
Here’s the NAVADMIN for the Fleet Seminar Program discussed in our JPME I primer. Remember that there is an increased focus on education on fitreps:
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RMKS/1. This NAVADMIN announces the Naval War College (NWC) Fleet Seminar
Program (FSP) which offers intermediate level Joint Professional Military
Education (JPME-I) through a set of three courses: Strategy and War (S and
W), Theater Security Decision Making (TSDM), Joint Maritime Operations (JMO),
offered at multiple locations. Each course normally requires one academic
year to complete, which runs from September through the following May. All
three courses are not offered simultaneously at all locations.
There is no tuition fee and course materials are provided on a loan basis at
no cost to the students.
2. Background:
a. The NWC FSP will be offered in nineteen regional locations in the
United States for academic year 2020-2021. Planned locations and courses
are:
(1) Annapolis, MD (S and W, TSDM and JMO)
(2) Dahlgren, VA (JMO)
(3) Everett, WA (S and W)
(4) Fort Worth, TX (S and W)
(5) Great Lakes, IL (TSDM)
(6) Jacksonville, FL (TSDM and JMO)
(7) Kitsap, WA (TSDM)
(8) Mayport, FL (S and W)
(9) Millington, TN (S and W)
(10) New Orleans, LA (JMO)
(11) Newport, RI (S and W, TSDM and JMO)
(12) Norfolk, VA (S and W, TSDM and JMO)
(13) Patuxent River, MD (TSDM)
(14) Pearl Harbor, HI (S and W, TSDM and JMO)
(15) Pensacola, FL (Whiting Field) (TSDM and JMO)
(16) Port Hueneme, CA (TSDM)
(17) San Diego, CA (S and W, TSDM and JMO)
(18) Washington, DC (S and W, TSDM and JMO)
(19) Whidbey Island, WA (JMO)
b. FSP courses are similar in content and delivery methodology to the
intermediate level program of study offered by the resident College of Naval
Command and Staff in Newport, RI. Seminars for each course meet once a week
in the evening for approximately 34 weeks, commencing in early September 2020
and ending in May 2021. Successful completion of all three courses results in
the award of a College of Naval Command and Staff diploma, as well as credit
for JPME-I. The FSP seminars at all locations are conducted in-step with
each other so it is possible for a student who is transferring to or assigned
temporary additional duty at another seminar location to attend class at that
location.
3. Criteria:
a. NWC accepts program applications from commissioned officers (active
and reserve) and civilian employees of the federal government, subject to the
following eligibility requirements:
(1) Members of the sea services (Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard) in the paygrade of O-3 or above, while officers from the other
services must be in the paygrade of O-4 or above. Civilian employees of the
federal government in the grade of GS-11 and above, or equivalent, are also
eligible for enrollment.
(2) All applicants must have previously earned at least a
baccalaureate degree.
b. Qualified individuals currently stationed in areas listed in
paragraph two, or those who expect transfer to those sites prior to
1 September 2020 are encouraged to apply.
4. Application Process:
a. More information is available and applications must be submitted at
the NWC College of Distance Education FSP website at
https://www.mnp.navy.mil/group/training-education-qualifications (NWC
Academic Programs link). The application period is currently open and will
remain open until 14 June 2020.
5. Selection Notifications:
a. NWC will make enrollment selections and accepted applicants will be
advised of their enrollment selection status via email.
6. Points of Contact:
a. Points of contact are Ms. Stephanie Accaputo who can be reached at
(401) 841-7677/DSN 841 or via email at fsp(at)usnwc.edu, Ms.
Kelly Folger who can be reached at (401) 841-6520/DSN 841 or via email at
fsp(at)usnwc.edu and Professor Ronald Oard who can be reached via email at
oardr(at)usnwc.edu.
7. Request widest dissemination of the above information. Regional
coordinators at the sites listed in paragraph two are requested to pass this
information to all Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard units and
all reserve units located within safe driving distance of an FSP site.
8. This message will remain in effect until superseded or 14 June 2020,
whichever occurs first.
9. Released by Vice Admiral S. B. Munsch, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
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Navy Times – Higher Education Just Became a Much Bigger Factor on Navy FITREPs
Here’s a link to this article:
Higher Education Just Became a Much Bigger Factor on Navy FITREPs
Here are the other related and recent posts:
Updated Fitrep Prep and More Detail on Fitrep and Promo Board Changes from Recent NAVADMIN 137/20
AMSUS 2020 – Save the Dates 6-10 DEC
Save the date for the 129th AMSUS Annual Meet to be held on 6-10 December 2020 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor Maryland! This year’s theme “Federal Health: A Global Vision Beginning in Your Community” continues to support federal health professionals and honors the legacy of federal medicine’s tremendous impact in advancing and improving health for all Americans and international coalition partners! A data call is forthcoming, and additional guidance for BSO-18 personnel.
See a few important deadlines:
- AMSUS Lecture Abstracts and AMSUS Annual Award Nominations due 17 JUL 2020
- AMSUS Poster Abstracts due 3 AUG 2020
*Award Recipients will be announced late SEP 2020
For additional details, and information, check out: www.amsus.org
Updated Fitrep Prep and More Detail on Fitrep and Promo Board Changes from Recent NAVADMIN 137/20
Because of NAVADMIN 137/20 and the increased focus it put on education in fitness reports, I updated Joel Schofer’s Fitrep Prep. The new portion is on page 15 and spells out the new requirements for block 41, which are spelled out below in detail, but later in the NAVADMIN it says in brief:
(2) For Block 41 (Comments on Performance), document professional military education, off-duty education and other educational and learning achievements pursued during the reporting period.
It also says this about promotion boards:
We will also update selection board precept and convening order guidance to direct board membership to review and brief specific education and learning contributions found in the official service records of eligible personnel, and to consider these documented accomplishments across the career of an individual when deliberating the best and fully qualified selection criteria. Statutory and administrative selection board presidents will be held accountable for ensuring compliance with this guidance in respect to board processes.
You better make sure you do some of this stuff and put it in your block 41, which I think would include CME/continuing education, JPME, Master’s degrees, service schools, and just about any other education related to your position that you do.
Here’s the detailed/longer portion of the NAVADMIN about fitreps:
3. To support these goals, and in conjunction with MyNavyHR efforts to
integrate education effectively into Sailor 2025 talent management
initiatives, FITREPs will include specific comments regarding education,
learning and support for a learning culture.
This requirement will allow us to identify, select and reward those officers
who have demonstrated the commitment and ability to learn, as well as those
who encourage and support the learning of others, by placing them into
positions of influence at the tactical, operational and strategic levels.
a. Reporting Seniors must document:
(1) All personal achievements in education and learning that
contribute to a culture of continuous learning, improved knowledge and
warfighting effectiveness at both the individual and unit level.
Resources include:
(a) Resident and non-resident professional military education
coursework,
(b) Professional and academic qualifications and certifications,
(c) Civilian education coursework,
(d) A personal reading program that includes (but is not limited
to) selections from the Chief of Naval Operations Reading List,
(e) Participation in discussion groups and military societies,
(f) Publishing in national security or military journals, and
(g) Involvement in learning through new technologies.
For purposes of this NAVADMIN, military societies are organizations that
exist specifically to support education, training and professional
development of personnel in a given community. The definition of military
societies does not include associations intended to promote the morale or
general well-being of Service Members.
(2) Individual commitment to intellectual growth in ways beneficial
to the Navy, including rigorous self-assessment and efforts to improve:
(a) Leadership,
(b) Decision making,
(c) Creativity,
(d) Analytic ability,
(e) Commitment to ethics,
(f) Geopolitical awareness, and
(g) Understanding of emerging military technologies and complex
military operations.
(3) The effort of the individual to support the continuing education
of subordinates they command or supervise.
(4) The degree to which the officer continued to assess self, develop
professionally, improve current skills and knowledge and acquire new skills.
(5) The extent to which these achievements increase the breadth and
depth of warfighting and leadership aptitude.
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