Leadership Center

Bringing current and future leaders together to make a difference ethically and globally.

ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ Leadership Center serves ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the local community through collaboration with military, public, private, and non-profit organizations to advance leadership through academic programs, research opportunities, scholarly publications, and professional outreach services. Our mission is to enhance student and community leadership education, scholarship, and growth by instilling ethical, collaborative, and visionary principles in preparation for the complexities and challenges of leading in dynamic environments.

OUR GOAL
ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ has been developing leaders for over 200 years through a broad array of academic programs. The Leadership Center (LC) prepares and educates future leaders to work with professionals in the community, public sector, private sector, and military with heightened focus, coordination and collaboration. Additionally, through research and development programs, the Leadership Center encourages current industry leaders to advance their leadership practices..

OUR MISSION
At the ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ Leadership Center, our mission is to enhance leadership education, scholarship, and development by instilling ethical, collaborative, aspirational, and visionary principles in our students and ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ community to prepare them for the complexities and challenges of leading in dynamic environments.

HOW ARE WE UNIQUE?
Leadership educators and practitioners widely agree the most important challenge in the leadership discipline is to bring theory and practice together, allowing more current academic and real-life leadership experience into higher education classrooms. The LC leverages ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ’s vast leadership experience to serve ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members through academic, research, and professional development. Distinct from other centers and academic units, the LC serves as a hub for all leadership projects, programs, and research ideas currently offered at ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ. It allows for unprecedented collaboration in all types of leadership pursuits.

NORWICH UNIVERSITY HONOR CODE
A ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ student will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.
 

Faculty & Staff

  • Co-Director, Leadership Center
  • Program Director, Leadership Program
  • Professor of Practice, Criminology and Criminal Justice

  • Director, School of Business
  • Associate Professor of Management

  • Assistant Professor of Political Science
  • Director, Honors Program
One Vision, Two Unique Academies

Two Centuries of Developing Leaders

There has never been a greater need for leaders who serve in the government, non-government, private, and global sectors. ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ’s Leadership Academies will provide pathways to these sectors by focusing on the citizen soldier concept.

These academies develop new leaders of strong character who are ethical, innovative, inclusive, and ready to lead in military, federal, private, and NGO environments. These academies run in parallel and align with the Corps of Cadets core leadership competencies. This alignment provides a seamless transition for Corps members in their 3rd year if they choose not to pursue a military commission or for any civilian student to join from their 1st year through the beginning of their 3rd year. 

The Government Service Leadership Academy and Global Leadership Academy focus on pathway opportunities for tuition assistance, fellowships, and internship programs. The academies leverage existing ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ curricula supplemented by competencies developed through participation and engagement in co-curricular and extracurricular activities.

The Government Service Leadership Academy (GSLA)

The mission of the GSLA is to develop the ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ student to enter the government workforce ready to help our nation compete with the dynamic trends in technology and innovation to protect national security and stay ahead of our global competitors. These competency development opportunities emphasize a leadership skillset suitable for federal, state, and local government service in agencies.

ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ Students give Brown Bag Leadership Presentations

The Global Leadership Academy (GLA)

The mission of the GLA is to prepare ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ students for lifelong success as employees, owners, and innovators in the dynamic global economy. These competency development opportunities emphasize a leadership skillset to transform the economic engines and global marketplaces in diverse sectors such as investment banking, healthcare, law, cyber, and engineering.

Leadership News

Spring Captains 2023-24 group shot

Leadership For Every Season

In the fall, Bill McCollough ’91, 56th Commandant of Cadets and Vice President of Student Affairs, and Ed Hockenbury, Director of Athletics, teamed up to help teach leadership lessons to the captains of each of ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ’s varsity sports.

ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ’s School of Architecture + Art presents Tooling for Impact: Doing more, with more, with less by Dr. Nathan King, a design educator and technology guru in the fields of architecture and construction.