Mission Statement

Education for the changing needs of our country

The threat of terror and the posture to withstand its onslaught can only be described as a very serious business. Trained, educated and intellectually sophisticated specialists compose the front lines of defense in the ongoing resistance to those forces, which undermine the American way of life. Day to day, dedicated civil servants serve the needs of so many, so often that the additional variable of terrorism cannot always be the primary consideration. The program delivers graduate education with three primary objectives in mind:

• Develop strategies, plans and programs to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism;
• Build the organizational arrangements needed to strengthen Homeland Security (HS), including Local/State/Federal, civil-military and interagency cooperation; and
• Help government leaders make immediate as well as longer-term improvements in HS preparedness, by having their students conduct policy development work on "real world," actionable opportunities for progress.