ABSTRACT
Army soldiers in the mid-career stage at times serve as college faculty in military science programs across more than 1,100 campuses. Although they are mid-career in a different professional field, the Army invests in these soldiers as college faculty members in order for them to teach, mentor, and serve as role models for college students (also known as cadets). This chapter highlights a special federal investment in these soldiers as college faculty. This mid-career program, the University of Louisville/Army Master Educator Course, is a two-semester-long educational intervention to equip soldiers with graduate-level experience in college teaching and learning, student success, higher education administration, and organizational change with a community action research lens. The benefits of this program include expanding campus networks, educating campus leaders about ROTC programs, gaining more program resources, designing new interdisciplinary programming, strengthening student advising and development, focusing on student success factors, and focusing an equity lens on decision-making and implementation. Simply put, the program offers soldiers who are at the mid-career stage but new to the academy a set of tools and techniques to examine, frame, execute, and improve cadet experiences.
