John Kroger

Naval Community College Kicks Off Pilot Program This Month With 600 Students

Sailors take the Navy wide advancement exam aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) on Sept. 3, 2020. US Navy Photo

The United States Naval Community College will begin serving its first class of about 600 students, under a pilot program running from January through June.

The students will come from the Navy, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, and they will be taught by a combined effort from Northern Virginia Community College, the University of Arizona, the University of Maryland Global...

https://news.usni.org/2021/01/07/naval-community-college-kicks-off-pilot-program-this-month-with-600-students

Navy ‘Education for Seapower’ Program Under Review by New SECNAV

U.S. Naval War College (NWC) holds a graduation ceremony, March 3, 2020. US Navy Photo

A push to boost education across all ranks the Navy and the Marine Corps is under review by the office of the Secretary of the Navy and could face cuts in the future, USNI News has learned.

The Education for Seapower initiative was a key program crafted by Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer and former Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly to improve learning across the Department of the Navy as a national security...

Department of the Navy Unveils Education For Seapower Strategy

U.S. Marines assigned to the Cyber Security Technician course, Marine Corps Communications-Electronics School, work on an assignment at Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms, Calif., March 15, 2017. US Marine Corps Photo

The Education for Seapower Strategy was released this week and outlines the Department of the Navy’s effort to revitalize the way it educates sailors and Marines.

The strategy is the DoN’s guide to implementing many of the organizational and functional changes proposed in the Navy’s

https://news.usni.org/2020/03/03/department-of-the-navy-unveils-education-for-seapower-strategy

Naval Community College Kicks Off January 2021 With IT, Engineering Majors

Damage controlman 1st class Ryan Vanderstouw takes the chief petty officer Navy-wide advancement exam in a training classroom inside the USS Enterprise recruit barracks at Recruit Training Command on Jan. 16, 2020. US Navy Photo

TYSONS, Va. – The Navy’s community college will begin teaching its first cohort of students a year from now, with several hundred students studying engineering and information technology as a proof of concept of the value of providing technical education to enlisted...

https://news.usni.org/2020/01/24/naval-community-college-kicks-off-january-2021-with-it-engineering-majors

Acting SECNAV Modly Orders $100M Shifted Toward Navy Education Effort

Aviation Structural Mechanic 2nd Class John Goodwin, a Framingham, Massachusetts, native, takes notes during the Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) Mass Eddy Current Lab Feb. 7 aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. US Navy Photo

The acting secretary of the Navy ordered a 22-percent increase in spending on education within the Navy, calling for more than $100 million to be shifted around this year and for $350 million to be added in the out-years...

https://news.usni.org/2019/12/09/acting-secnav-modly-orders-100m-shifted-toward-navy-education-effort

Navy, Marine Corps Want to Update Services’ Professional Military Education

An actor portraying Rear Adm. Stephen B. Luce, founder and first president of U.S. Naval War College (NWC) addresses students, staff, faculty and guests during a convocation ceremony kicking off the 2017-2018 academic year a the Naval War College. US Navy Photo

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Navy is evaluating ways to improve and update the Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) program that is considered a must for officers to promote to senior ranks.

As the Department of the Navy revamps its...

https://news.usni.org/2019/11/18/navy-marine-corps-want-to-update-services-professional-military-education

New Navy Chief Learning Officer Wants to Develop a Thinking Force

Recruits march in formation at Recruit Training Command on Oct. 2, 2019. US Navy Photo

The Department of the Navy’s new chief learning officer sees creating a thinking force, able to quickly apply classroom concepts to live situations, as the new training focus for all sailors and Marines.

A week on the job, the Navy’s new Chief Learning Officer John Kroger is spending much of his time meeting with the Navy’s educational leaders to understand better how the many pieces of the department’s...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/07/new-navy-chief-learning-officer-wants-to-develop-a-thinking-force

Former Marine, College President Selected to be Navy’s First Chief Learning Officer

John Kroger, named to be the Department of the Navy’s first Chief Learning Officer. Navy photo.

John Kroger – a former Marine, an academic, a federal prosecutor and past attorney general for the State of Oregon – has been selected to become the Navy’s first chief learning officer.

Following a months-long search, Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer announced Kroger’s selection on Tuesday. Kroger will now spearhead a sweeping set of changes to how the Department of the Navy runs and organizes...

https://news.usni.org/2019/09/10/former-marine-college-president-selected-to-be-navys-first-chief-learning-officer