WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts today congratulated the U.S. Army Command and Staff General College at Ft. Leavenworth on their recent designation as “The Army University.”

“I am delighted our nation’s top leaders will continue to learn in the heartland. I am proud to represent the wonderful folks who support the installation, and humbled by every soldier who has selflessly dedicated their talents to the Army, past, present, and future, by coming to Ft. Leavenworth.  

“Designation as the Army University only adds to the merits Ft. Leavenworth already boasts among Army installations across this nation. I am confident Ft. Leavenworth will continue to serve as a jewel in the Army’s cadre of fine installations and remain as strong as ever in the face of dwindling budgets.”

The Army University concept solidifies education as a core value in the Army. By rebalancing education, training, and experience across the leader development triad to support developing agile, adaptive, and innovative soldiers, civilians, and leaders prepared to win in a complex world. The Army University will increase soldier competence, character, and commitment.

Army University will provide the Force with a single point of contact for all Army education matters to address the educational needs of the Army while providing individual Soldiers and Civilians the opportunity to accomplish their own respective academic goals. 

To see more from Senator Roberts on the Army University Concept, see his essay entitled “The Coming Educational Revolution in the U.S. Army” in the Military Review, The Professional Journal of the Army.

The US Army Command and General Staff College educates, trains and develops leaders for Unified Land Operations in a Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational operational environment; and advances the art and science of the profession of arms in support of Army operational requirements. For more, go here.

"The Army University is the next logical step in the continued professionalization of the Army that began with the creation of the All-Volunteer Force in 1973," said Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army chief of staff.  "This effort organizes all of TRADOC's existing educational programs into a single university structure to promote greater academic rigor, to improve internal integration, and to enhance external collaboration with many of the Nation's best universities and colleges."

"We must continue to educate and develop Soldiers and Civilians to grow the intellectual capacity to understand the complex contemporary security environment to better lead Army, Joint, interagency and multinational task forces and teams," said the Honorable John McHugh, Secretary of the Army.  "Therefore, we will reinvest and transform our institutional educational programs for our Soldiers, commissioned officers, warrant officers, and noncommissioned officers in order to prepare for the complex future security environment."

Roberts fought to improve the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth by securing the funding to replace Bell Hall with the Lewis and Clark Center, a state of the art facility now home to the Combined Arms Center.

Since coming to the Senate in 1996, Senator Roberts has worked tirelessly on behalf of Kansas’ military installations and their communities to see that the nation’s men and women in uniform have a better quality of life and the tools to fulfill their mission to protect and defend the United States.

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