The Defense Life Cycle Management System As A Working Model For Academic Application

Performing the review and assessment of masters’ level degree programs can be an overwhelming and challenging endeavor.  Getting organized and mapping out the entire review and assessment process can be extremely helpful and more importantly provide a path for successfully accomplishing the review and assessment of the entire program.  This paper will provide a roadmap that was used as a guide for accomplishing a successful review and assessment of academic degree programs in a logical and succinct manner by adapting a proven model originally developed for the acquisition and life cycle management of new equipment, materials, and systems. This paper will also discuss how the Integrated Defense Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Life Cycle Management System process was adapted to the needs of an academic institution of higher-learning

The Manifest Destiny Of Education: Past, Present And Beyond The Boundaries Of Tradition

The generation currently in secondary schools has never known the world without the Internet, has spent thousands of hours each year interacting with video games and social media, and has high expectations for the degree of control and choices they will have regarding employment, entertainment, and the education they receive.The employers of our future graduates have undergone - and will continue to undergo - profound changes in consumer behavior and technology-based marketing and value creation, while simultaneously facing intense global competition, rapid technological advances, and dynamic markets. Employer demands for increasingly flexible, self-motivated, collaborative, communicative, creative, energetic, technology savvy employees will continue to rise. These conditions are fundamentally changing consumer and employer expectations of education and driving the need for ever greater relevance, personalization, flexibility, mobility, and meaningful and relevant outcomes. In many respects, we must work toward and plan for an evolving target and, as such, we should work to create dynamic contexts as well as learning what can change and be modified as needed