CTU Security Studies Newsletter

Greetings to our alumni and students and welcome to Colorado Technical University’s Security Studies Alumni Newsletter.

My role at CTU is University Dean for Security Studies and I oversee many of the curricular and content aspects of the university’s Criminal Justice and Homeland Security programs as well as help develop new programs. I am also on the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security and I serve as a Senior Fellow at The George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute and as a member of the board of the Journal of Homeland Security Education. I previously served as a Senior Director at Israel’s National Security Council where I was part of a small team that advised Israel’s Prime Minister and Cabinet on national security policy. I recently published the first textbook to focus on international homeland security policies entitled: Comparative Homeland Security: Global Lessons and I have published articles and book chapters on homeland security, national security and Middle East-related topics.

The University has decided to amalgamate a number of different academic programs under what we call program verticals and hence Criminal Justice and Homeland Security programs have been brought together under the common umbrella of Security Studies. We believe that this approach will allow us to create greater synergies between the programs as well as help us engage other parts of the university (student services, admissions, faculty, registrar, etc.) to continuously improve services for students in the Criminal Justice and Homeland Security programs. As far as the curricular content is concerned, we are keeping abreast of changes and developments in the Criminal Justice and Homeland Security fields and update and revise courses to reflect these evolving fields – both from the standpoint of these fields as academic disciplines as well as practitioner enterprises. We are continually striving to ensure that the curriculum stays relevant and challenges students to further develop their research and critical thinking and analysis skills. Ultimately, factual knowledge is something that is continually acquired but the skills to find, process and create outputs from that knowledge are critical and must lie at the core of any educational endeavor.

We hope you will find this quarterly newsletter interesting and useful and we would very much like to hear from our alumni and how you have developed in the various Criminal Justice or Homeland Security career paths.

Nadav Morag, Ph.D.
Dean for Security Studies
Colorado Technical University

Newsletters 

Volume 1, Issue 1 Spring, 2012

Volume 2, Issue 1 Spring, 2013