The Academy Mission is: to “Educate, Train and Inspire the Corps of Cadets …” Supporting this mission statement, the Faculty Manual states that: “Above all, effective teaching is the primary obligation of the USMA faculty.”

How fitting, that at the end of an academic year, we would take the time to celebrate teaching at USMA. On 19 May at 1130 at the Club, that’s just what we’ll do — celebrate Effective Teaching.

Approximately fifty of your faculty colleagues will be receiving certificates at the luncheon for having completed a two-year long faculty development program, the Master Teacher Program. During that time, they read a wide variety of literature on teaching and learning, they met monthly to discuss those readings with others, they tried new classroom assessment techniques in their classrooms and discussed the results, and they wrote a comprehensive paper on classroom research in their courses.

The tentative list of MTP graduates (pending program completion) is shown on page 2 of the May newsletter (linked below). Also shown is a list of faculty who have participated actively for two years but will not be completing the program this year. Please congratulate those who have almost completed this two-year long faculty development program!

Please plan to join us at the May luncheon. Graduates will be attending as it is a program requirement, and you are all invited to attend the luncheon to congratulate them and celebrate teaching at USMA. The Dean, Brigadier General Finnegan will be attending and will award completion certificates to all graduates. Dr. Peter Seldin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Management, Pace University, NY will be the keynote speaker. We will also announce the winner of the “Apgar Award”, which recognizes a faculty member at the Academy who has improved cadet learning through an innovative teaching project.