Internalization of the Army Values that results in the knowledge, integrity, and awareness to assess the moral-ethical aspects of every situation and the personal courage to take appropriate action regardless of consequences.

Cadets:

• Learn moral-ethical reasoning in PY201 and Honor Education.
• Exercise moral reasoning in academic exercises, military training scenarios, and during athletic competitions.
• Demonstrate moral courage by confronting classmates about honor violations or correcting inappropriate behavior. 

Demonstrates the empathy, loyalty, respect, and humility that enable an individual to treat others with dignity and to display selflessness.
Cadets:

• Learn about civic character during CCDP classes facilitated by faculty volunteers.
• Practice civic character in their daily interactions with teammates and opponents on the athletic fields, during clubs activities, while living in the barracks, and during classroom discussions with their fellow cadets.
• Develop civic character by serving others while cleaning the barracks, conducting service trips to New York City, and participating in numerous forums of tutoring others in math and writing.

Acts with proper decorum in all professional, social, and online environments.

Cadets:

• Engage in opportunities for social growth on AIADs, conferences, trip sections, and athletic events.
• Learn that cadets and officers live honorably at all times in all environments.
• Conduct themselves in ways that bring honor to West Point as they represent the Army Profession in venues away from West Point.
• Recognize that leaders of character do not hide behind the veil of anonymity to post hurtful and damaging material on social media.
• Learn across a multitude of social events to conduct themselves as honorable leaders at all times.

Possesses the sense of duty, resilience, and grit necessary to accomplish the mission and get results.

Cadets:

• Demonstrate grit and resiliency during military training, physical testing events, intercollegiate/club/company athletics, and parade practice.
• Are challenged to pursue excellence in all areas of their development. Achieving the minimum standard with little effort is not acceptable.
• Strive to improve and push beyond their comfort zone in the many opportunities engaged in the four programs. Whether cadets push themselves to improve their IOCT score or works extra hours to master calculus, they always remain committed to improve.
• Recover quickly and continue to persevere if faced with a setback.

The ability to inspire and develop others while establishing a safe, positive command climate where everyone thrives while achieving tangible results.

Cadets:

• Develop leadership character by ensuring their organizations have a positive command climate that enables mission accomplishment. Cadets have multiple opportunities to develop this while serving in formal roles such as the Cadet Chain of Command, as a Section Marcher for a class, Summer Cadre, Club Cadet in Charge, or Team Captain, or informal roles as members of a squad, teammates, and classmates.
• Learn to encourage others to demonstrate respect and empathy while deliberately taking steps to include every member of the team. Teams can include academic project teams, ad hoc assignment or discussion groups, intramural teams, or summer training.