Call for Papers: 2018 Ethics Symposium

● Mark Wiggins ● November 28, 2017 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The 2018 Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium will be conducted April 30-May 1, 2018. This year’s theme is: The Impact of Diverse Worldviews on Military Conflict CGSC is issuing a call for unpublished papers for the symposium. Authors are invited to submit 300-500 word extracts of their papers for consideration. CGSC… Read More

UMKC students participate in Walk and Talk

● Mark Wiggins ● November 27, 2017 ● News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

Michael Wizniak, an instructor of International Management in the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) brought 16 of his students on Nov. 17 to tour Fort Leavenworth and the Command and General Staff College. His students, both undergrad and graduate, are part of his “Global… Read More

Local church members participate in Walk and Talk program

● Mark Wiggins ● November 24, 2017 ● News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Nov. 14, the CGSC Foundation was delighted to host some of the members of the Platte Woods United Methodist Church on a “walk and talk” visit of Fort Leavenworth and CGSC. The group began their tour with a scenic drive around Fort Leavenworth taking a close look at the… Read More

Kansas City Public Library leaders tour CGSC, Fort Leavenworth

● Mark Wiggins ● November 22, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Nov. 13, Crosby Kemper, the executive director of the Kansas City Library, and Carrie Coogan, the library’s deputy director of public affairs, joined the CGSC Foundation for a walk and talk tour of CGSC and Fort Leavenworth. The tour began with a drive by all the beautiful historic homes… Read More

Russian Revolutions subject of latest WWI lecture

● Mark Wiggins ● November 22, 2017 ● Featured News Releases School News ● No Comments

Dr.’s Sean Kalic and Gates Brown presented their lecture on “The Russian Revolutions” as part of the General of the Armies John J. Pershing Great War Centennial Series on Nov. 15, at the Stove Factory Ballroom in downtown Leavenworth. Kalic and Brown published Russian Revolution of 1917: The Essential Reference… Read More

Former Commandant Lt. Gen. John H. Cushman dies at 96

● Mark Wiggins ● November 16, 2017 ● Featured News Releases ● 1 Comment

Former CGSC Commandant Lt. Gen. John H. Cushman died Nov. 8 at 96 in a retirement facility in Washington, D.C. According to reports, his son, John H. Cushman Jr., said the cause was a stroke. Cushman’s father was an Army brigadier general and he followed in his father’s footsteps, graduating… Read More

Brown-bag lecture features State Department presentation

● Mark Wiggins ● November 14, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

Mr. Andrew B. Mitchell, a career Foreign Service Officer, led the discussion in the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture conducted Nov. 14, in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. Mitchell provided attendees with an overview of the U.S. Department of State mission, it’s history and… Read More

Former CGSC Dean presents on climate change at Park University

● Mark Wiggins ● November 14, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

As part of the Simons Center’s Distinguished Speakers Program, the Simons Center in partnership with Park University sponsored a presentation by U.S. Army Brig. Gen. (Ret.) W. Chris King, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, on Nov. 13 to a full-house audience at Alumni Hall on the Park University main campus in Parkville,… Read More

Foundation trustee brings church group for ‘Walk and Talk’

● Mark Wiggins ● November 13, 2017 ● News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Nov. 9, CGSC Foundation trustee Bill Eckhardt (third from left in the photo above) invited a group from his church to tour Fort Leavenworth and the Command and General Staff College. Rod Cox, program director of the Foundation’s Simons Center, along with the CGSC Foundation founding trustee Lt. Gen.… Read More

Second Women of Accelerent tour CGSC, Fort Leavenworth

● Mark Wiggins ● November 7, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Sept. 24, the CGSC Foundation hosted the second group of women affiliated with the “Women of Accelerent.” Accelerent is a strategic networking platform where decision makers can build relationships with other decision makers for the sole purpose of growing their respective companies. As the group was touring Fort Leavenworth,… Read More