Leadership and Ethics 

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Marcus Luttrell to speak in the Gillis Auditorium on 5 March, 2010 

The mission of the VMI Center for Leadership and Ethics is to advance the understanding, practice, and integration of leadership and character development at the Institute and to share insights gleaned from the VMI programs with a broader national audience. 

The Center’s new and innovative programs will initially focus on ensuring that the Institute realizes the full potential of the leadership and character development experiences available to the Corps of Cadets. In time, the Institute will use the Center’s capabilities to offer programs in leadership and ethics to a broader national audience. 

The development of leaders of character at VMI involves a four-year cadet journey through well-integrated and closely coordinated experiences in intellectual, military, physical, and character development.  Each of these four programs facilitates particular aspects of cadet growth and development—and all cadets need sufficient opportunities to develop in each of these domains to become leaders of character who are prepared to serve the nation as citizen-soldiers.

 Combining newly-built Marshall Hall’s state-of-the-art facilities with new programs, the VMI Center for Leadership and Ethics will play the central role in integrating and synchronizing these experiences across the four major programs so that Dean and Commandant, faculty and staff, coaches and instructors, officers and non commissioned officers—all are working together to fully exploit the developmental opportunities of the VMI experience. 

Center for Leadership and Ethics Standard Operating Protocols