Command and General Staff College Foundation News - 22

SIMONS CENTER UPDATE

Simons Center
programs
flourishing in 2017
by Col. Roderick M. Cox. U.S. Army, Ret.
Simons Center Program Director
spring brings with it the prOmise Of grOwth anD reneweD

energy, and this spring is no different. As the days grow longer

and the weather warmer, we also see our publications and
programs flourishing.
As you may know, the Simons Center established a new
lecture series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and
General Staff School. The InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture
Series is an extracurricular, interagency topic-focused series
that is intended to help enrich the CGSS curriculum. Since
its inaugural lecture in September 2016, seven presentations
on various agencies of the U.S. government have augmented
the interagency education of CGSC students and faculty and
facilitated interagency coordination across the Fort Leavenworth
community. The series has garnered positive reviews from
attendees and presenters alike, and the Simons Center will once
again partner with the Command and General Staff School to
present the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series in school
year 2017-2018.
Ralph M. Erwin, Senior Geospatial Intelligence Officer and the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency liaison to CGSC, presents
"National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: A Roles and Missions
Briefing" at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College on
January 26 as part of the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series.

PHOTOS BY MARK H. WIGGINS

Larry A. Hisle, Executive Director of the Greater Kansas City Federal
Executive Board, leads a discussion on the FEBs roles and missions in an
InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture on Dec. 13, at the Lewis and Clark Center.

22 - CGSC FOUNDATION NEWS

The Simons Center also continues to advance the scholarship
of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College by
bringing in distinguished speakers. This April, Ambassador
(Ret.) Laura Kennedy returned for a second visit to Fort
Leavenworth as the DACOR visiting professor of diplomacy
for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Class
of 2017. (See article on page 24.)
Also in April, the Simons Center brought in Career
Minister Dr. Dirk Dijkerman as part of a Simons Center
special speakers program. Like Kennedy, Dijkerman attended
various elective courses at the U.S. Army Command and
General Staff College, discussing the various interagency
and international challenges and the methods he used to
successfully address them. (See article on page 24.)
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