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STATE & LOCAL EDITORIAL TECH BRIEFS BIG DATA CLOUD CYBERSECURITY DATA CENTERS EMERGING TECH MOBILE RESOURCES EVENTS Tweet Tweet By William Welsh GCN HALL OF FAME How NDU's Childs gave iCollege a global scope Oct 16, 2013 When Robert Childs became dean of faculty and academic programs at the National Defense University in 1991, he began a long march toward turning NDU’s iCollege from a traditional IT management school into an 21st century academy equipped to educate the next generation of leaders in the risks and realities of digital government. In the 22 years since, Childs has worked tirelessly to expand the iCollege’s core curriculum, with the aim of making it a institution of higher technology learning on the global stage. In 2010, he and his staff reached a key milestone on that path when the Education Department approved iCollege’s Government Information Leader Master of Science degree program. “That program is growing,” Childs said. “We have close to 300 students in the program MOST POPULAR ARTICLES About Advertise Contact Us Subscribe Police Video Robots Open Data Share Share 1 Like Like TRENDING
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How NDU's Childs gave iCollege a globalscope
Oct 16, 2013
When Robert Childs became dean of faculty and academic programs at the NationalDefense University in 1991, he began a long march toward turning NDU’s iCollege froma traditional IT management school into an 21st century academy equipped to educatethe next generation of leaders in the risks and realities of digital government.
In the 22 years since, Childs has worked tirelessly to expand the iCollege’s corecurriculum, with the aim of making it a institution of higher technology learning on theglobal stage.
In 2010, he and his staff reached a key milestone on that path when the EducationDepartment approved iCollege’s Government Information Leader Master of Sciencedegree program.
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now.” Altogether, 16,000 students have completed programs at NDU’s iCollege as of fall2013, he said.
For that achievement and others, iCollege has been designated as a National Center ofAcademic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and is regarded as aninternational pioneer and leader in cyber leadership education.
The aim of going global was an epiphany of sorts, and it came as Childs and his staffwere preparing for iCollege’s 20th anniversary.
At the time, iCollege served only U.S. students, most of them living in and aroundWashington, D.C., said Childs, who also serves as NDU's deputy president for cyber andinformation.
“We were reflecting on what we were doing as we were putting on this big celebration,”said Childs. “All of the sudden we had a real wake-up experience.”
Childs and his colleagues envisioned reaching beyond the confines of D.C. to turniCollege into a global hub. With funding from the Defense Department’s CIO office,iCollege was able to partner with foreign defense ministries in Europe, the Pacific Rimand the Middle East to gather and share knowledge on cyber-related topics.
“We started picking up unique knowledge that we were bringing back to the college, aswell as sharing knowledge,” Childs said. “And we were dealing with a very high level ofpeople on an international level. That had never been done before.”
Because of the domestic and global ties Childs helped forge, students benefit fromeducational resources from world-class educational centers, such as the John F.Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the London School ofEconomics.
The college produces more CIOs than any other institution, Childs said. Besidesteaching future CIOs for DOD and the military services, iCollege also grooms CIOs formany federal agencies through cooperative agreements.
In 2008, iCollege established a Chief Financial Officer’s academy within its walls.“Having CIOs and CFOs in the classroom is good because you need to look attechnology as part of your strategic plans,” Childs said. “The CFO academy was a hugestep forward.”
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