Mission:

The mission of the Alumni Association shall be to improve the leadership, scholarship, and partnership of its members, enhance the professional level of public safety services and its agency executives, and support the Traffic Institute.

Vision:

The Alumni Association:

• is recognized internationally as a professional voice addressing public safety leadership issues;
• leads the effort at networking among public safety agencies and graduates of the Center for Public Safety/Traffic Institute;
• provides input to the development, review, and revision of education and training programs in partnership with the Center for Public Safety;
• administers a Scholarship Endowment Fund to provide financial support to law enforcement agencies for staff to attend Center for Public Safety education programs;
• coordinates national and/or regional retraining seminars for Center for Public Safety/Traffic Institute graduates each year; and
• publishes a newsletter quarterly which contains leadership, scholarship, and partnership information of value to all Center for Public Safety/Traffic Institute Alumni Association members.

Values:

• Accountability:  efficiency and effectiveness in decisions and actions, accepting the consequences
• Education:  skill building, personal and professional development through seminars and publications
• Ethics:  character-based behavior consistent with stated intentions, values, and integrity
• Loyalty:  care, respect, and honor to our agencies, our profession, our service, our Center, and bonded in spirit to each other and our purpose
• Policing:  recognition of a greater cause intended to enhance the quality of life and safety of the  people, communities, and agencies whom we serve
• Professionalism:  the individual and collective effort to reach the pinnacle of education and service in policing and safety
• Service:  unselfish communication and sharing of professional and personal resources

Goals:

As of April 2002, the established goals of the Alumni Association for the period of the existing Board of Directors are aligned to three specific areas and expanded as:

Leadership:

• Establish a process through which Alumni Association members are recognized among the leaders within their profession
• Work to ensure that graduation from the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety/Traffic Institute is recognized as a valuable experience to those seeking to hire or promote public safety executives

Scholarship:

• Provide scholarships to identified, deserving public safety agencies in order to facilitate attendance at the School of Police Staff and Command (SPSC) and the Executive Management Program (EMP)
• Support retraining seminars that provide professional growth opportunities
• Solicit articles to be published in The Key
• Submit articles for publication in professional magazines that attribute the authors’ association with the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety/Traffic Institute

Partnership:

• Increase membership and participation in the Alumni Association
• Attend conferences and meetings such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police as representatives of the Center for Public Safety/Traffic Institute
• Develop and coordinate regional meetings of Alumni Association members