Mission
The Sergeants Major Course develops senior enlisted leaders of the joint force and allied partner nations to be agile, adaptive, and competent leaders of character capable of leading and advising organizations, while meeting the challenges of warfighting in a multi-domain environment.
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The Sergeants Major Course (SMC), formerly known as the Sergeants Major Academy (SGM-A), at Fort Bliss, TX became CGSC’s fourth school and a branch campus in March 2018. Each year, the SMC offers the ten-month resident course to senior U.S. and international noncommissioned officers, and the twelve-month distance learning course to another Army Reserve and National Guard NCOs around the world. In 2019, CGSC received Higher Learning Commission (HLC) authority and Department of the Army approval to offer a Bachelor or Arts in Leadership and Workforce Development to eligible graduates of the Sergeants Major Course.
The SMC consists of academy-level staff of administrators and curriculum developers and five academic departments under the supervision of the SMC Director: The Department of Army Operations (DAO), the Department of Command Leadership (DCL), the Department of Force Management (DFM), the Department of Regional Security Studies (DRSS), and the Department of the Profession of Arms (DPA).
In addition to delivering resident and distance learning, the SMC provides a one-week International Military Student Pre-Course (IMSPC).