Quantcast
Channel: USMA & Cadet News
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 7685

Dean's Weekly, November 8

$
0
0

Model UN:  The West Point Model UN teamThe West Point Model United Nations team travelled to the United Kingdom to participate in the Oxford International Model United Nations (OxIMUN) competition. This conference included universities representing 6 continents, with a total of over 600 participants. The West Point Model UN team was awarded Best Small Delegation. GO ARMY!

Sociology Majors in Sing-Sing Prison:  30 Cadets enrolled in PL393 visited Sing-Sing Prison (Introduction to Criminology) for an inside look at the penitentiary system in America. The cadets toured the facilities, spoke with the superintendent, corrections officers, and inmates, ate in the prison mess hall, viewed the commissary, and learned how the system operates.

A Visit to Mercedes-Benz –USA: Leadership and Management  Cadets visit Mercedes-Benz Leadership and Management majors visited the Mercedes-Benz –USA headquarters in Montvale, NJ.  Cadets participated in a day-long integrative experience that combined elements of operations management, human resources, leading organizational change, and marketing in a competitive, complex, international environment. Cadets discussed leadership and cultural change with the Mercedes-Benz–USA CEO, Steve Cannon '86, and engaged in discussions with the principal directors for marketing, public relations, customer experience, supply-chain management, and personnel.

Gordon Institute of Business Science:  The Leadership and Management Sciences program  in BS&L hosted students from the Gordon Institute of Business Science at the University Pretoria,  Johannesburg, South Africa.  Business students from Gordon participated in discussions on leadership development and cross-cultural leadership.

Culinary Institute of America Trip:  cadets from XH407 visit the Culinary Institute of American Following up on the CIA's visit to West Point on the anniversary of September 11th, the CIA hosted ten cadets from XH407 Advanced Critical Thought for a day in the kitchens of Hyde Park.  The cadets  divided into teams to prepare two different 8-course Farm-to-Fork menus highlighting local Hudson Valley ingredients. After sharing the fruits of their labor in the CIA dining hall, the group concluded the day with a roundtable discussion about the unexpected similarities of their two professions.

Wharton School of Business Semi-Annual Leadership Venture Program:  Seventeen cadets travelled to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business as part of an ongoing, semi-annual leadership venture program. Each Fall, the Department of BS&L sends a group of cadets to learn from Wharton students in Philadelphia, while each Spring, Wharton sends a reciprocal group to West Point, exchanging ideas about leadership and management between the World's premier undergraduate management program and the World's premier undergraduate leadership development institution.

EV391A (Land Use Planning and Management) NYC Trip: Cadets enrolled in EV391A went to NYC to tour the Solaire, the Irish Hunger Memorial, and the Highline. The objectives of the field trip were to observe how public space is used and to visit America's first environmentally advanced residential tower.


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 7685

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>