TROY Motto, 1887 - Troy University

While this
logistical necessity
may be viewed,
understandably,
with certain
sadness by some
who see it as the
end of an era, it
needn’t be viewed
that way.
Many of the graduate programs at the Montgomery
Campus have a steady flow of Airmen (the USAF’s official
term for both men and women of any rank—officer or
enlisted—and USAF civilians) enrolled in their classes. This
is particularly true in the Adult Education program. The
service men and women stationed at Maxwell, often for
no more than three years, continue to be vital to the life
and vibrancy of our Master of Science in Adult Education
(MSADE) program. Our relationship with the base is thriving
in many ways in addition to the involvement of these
students in our program, and some of our adjunct faculty
work in a full-time capacity at the base as well.
Most recently, I have been working with officials
at the Squadron Officer School (SOS), a Professional
Military Education course for junior officers held by the
Squadron Officer College (SOC) of The Air University, to
conduct research and scholarship. During the past year,
and continuing in the present, the officials there have been
extremely open and helpful in assisting me as I advance my
own workplace learning scholarship (learning resistance
and conceptual change) as well as, hopefully, assisting the
SOS to continue to be innovative as they serve their own
students. This relationship is still somewhat new but, again,
not a singular event as there have been others before me
to do the same.
While the focus here has been a Montgomery campus
and a Montgomery military base, the relationships represented
are indicative of a larger, even more meaningful
heritage. Troy University is presently involved, in one capacity
or another, with 31 military bases around the world.
Like all relationships there is responsibility for all those
involved. Ours is to remember, as times continue to change
and our great university continues to mature, that those in
the military, in addition to being defenders of our freedom,
heroes, and loyal servants, are also lifelong learners, and we
will always welcome them to the mighty walls of TROY.
Dr. Taylor (left)
conducts a
Professional
Military
Education course
at the Squadron
Officer School in
Maxwell, AL.
2010
Developing
Historical Inquiry with
Primary Sources and
Oral Histories
JAN
Using Documents to
Develop Historical Thinking:
A Statewide Initiative
JAN
Helen Keller
Lecture Series
APR
Camp Project Citizen:
A Summer School
Initiative
JUN
Fulbright-Hays
Seminars Abroad
Program
JUN
Enhancing We the People
Curriculum with Library of
Congress Primary Sources
JUL
Educate the mind to think, the heart to feel, the body to act. ~ TROY Motto, 1887
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