Air University Educational Digest - 2010 (pdf ... - The Air University

15 Aug 2006 Ft. Rucker-based Army Aviation helicopters were used for the first time to assist in instructing
Officer Training School students in mass casualty exercises and survival, escape and evasion
procedures. This innovation accompanied a 20-hour expansion of the OTS curriculum to increase
emphasis on expeditionary deployment skills.
16 Aug 2006 Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright signed an agreement deeding the 35-acre Riverside Heights
area to Maxwell AFB. In exchange, the Air Force deeded Montgomery Heights to the City of
Montgomery.
Sep 2006 In response to the USAF Chief of Staff‘s direction to improve cultural sensitivity and linguistic
skills, AU began to offer on-line tutoring in 28 foreign languages to active duty company grade
officers and initiated the Cultural Competency Conference .
Sep 2006 Air University celebrated the 60th anniversary of the first classes to be offered at the Air War
College, the Air Command and Staff College, and the forerunner of what later became the
Squadron Officer School.
1 Oct 2006 The Air Force Doctrine Center (AFDC) was reassigned to AU. Although AU‘s plans called for a
merger of AFDC with the College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education, the AFDC
commander (‗dual-hatted‘ as the AU vice commander) would continue to serve as the USAF‘s
executive agent for all matters regarding operational-level doctrine.
19 Jan 2007 Air University Library was formally renamed the Muir S. Fairchild Research Center.
March 2007 The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) began to offer a Master‘s degree in systems
engineering as its first distance learning (DL) graduate degree program. Support for the offering
was facilitated by AFIT‘s new studio suite for the production of DL courseware.
29 Mar 2007 Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne granted AU permission to confer honorary degrees
upon ―other than those students who fulfilled specified degree requirements.‖
16 Apr 2007 The Squadron Officer School (SOC) reinstated its Distinguished Graduate (DG) Award program
to better recognize those students who had exhibited special excellence in all facets of the
curriculum. SOC‘s recognition program had been changed in March 2004 to replace DG with a
Top Third Graduate Award for the best 33 percent of the graduating class.
4 May 2007 Air University began regrouping its colleges and schools under newly created centers to manage
accessions (the Holm Center), officer education (the Spaatz Center), enlisted education( the
Barnes Center), doctrine development (the LeMay Center), and continuing education (the Eaker
Center).
Jun 2007 The Air Command and Staff College created an on-line graduate degree program for eligible
officers that simultaneously fulfilled requirements for Joint professional military education and AF
intermediate-level development education. The 33 semester-hour program conferred a master‘s
degree in the military operational arts and sciences.
15 Jun 2007 CCAF activated the Associate-to-Baccalaureate Program, an arrangement with civilian colleges
and universities by which enlisted personnel use distance learning and tuition assistance funding to
complete their four-year degrees.
23 Jun 2007 The AF JAG School was formally reassigned ‗in place‘ from AETC to the AF Legal Operations
Agency.
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