Yesterday it was announced that President Trump intends to nominate Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark H. “Buz” Buzby, ’79, as his Maritime Administrator. The president could […]
The whole soccer team issue sidetracked me from the post that I’ve been preparing about how MARAD calculates the restoration of sea year. I’ll try […]
Update: At today’s court hearing, the parties reached an agreement that will allow the senior midshipmen on the soccer team to participate in graduation and […]
Dear Secretary Chao: We at KingsPointSentry.com welcomed your nomination as the Secretary of Transportation and we were particularly heartened during your confirmation hearing when Senator […]
In two weeks, B-Splits at the Academy are scheduled to depart on sea year. Unfortunately, 90% of the Class of 2020 B-Splits will be getting […]
Owen Doherty, ’81, an Associate Administrator at MARAD, reached out to me today to provide data on how MARAD calculates the percentage of restoration of […]
Spoiler alert: Because my source’s data was accurate. Two weeks ago, in a deliberately provocative post entitled “84% of all MARAD employees who testify before […]
Two days ago, we revealed the true statistics about the restoration of sea year. They were bleak — and not nearly as rosy as the […]
There’s an old saying that figures don’t lie but liars can figure. MARAD is doing a lot of figuring when it comes to calculating the […]
[Updated with a direct link to the video of the testimony instead of taking you to the web page where the video could be found.] […]
As reported here, the permanent, entrenched, bureaucracy in MARAD has refused to make public any of the actions that the Academy has taken to address […]
Spoiler alert: whole lotta’ nothing . . . so far. In the continuing quest to provide Academy stakeholders with basic information about the ongoing threat […]
(Update has a link to prepared testimony from a House hearing yesterday at the bottom of the page.) At 10:00 a.m. today, the Acting Maritime […]
UPDATE: After this post was posted on April 4, 2017, the Academy finally updated the reaccreditation page on its website to provide the following information: […]
I asked MARAD to expedite the KingsPointSentry FOIA request for the copy of the Monitoring Report that the Academy submitted to the Middle States Commission […]
Since the Academy refuses to update its stakeholders on the status of its efforts to avoid losing accreditation (today marks 270 days since the last […]
In the recent posts (here and here) about the hijacking of the mission of the Congressional Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (“SAPR”) Working Group, I’ve […]
Why the hijacking of the SAPR Working Group could threaten the reaccreditation of USMMA. On April 20, 2016, seemingly innocuous legislation proposed by MARAD was […]
It is critical that Secretary Chao ask Congress to delay the delivery deadline for the USMMA Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Working Group report […]
Yesterday, March 1, 2017, was the deadline for the Academy to provide a “monitoring report” to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education that would […]
Last June, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) put USMMA on accreditation warning. It is the only federal academy ever to be placed […]
Four. Keep that number in your head. Four. That is the number of graduates from New York (SUNY) Maritime in 2010 (the last, and only, […]
[UPDATE: In this post, we put together the pieces of the puzzle that showed how MARAD was attempting to manipulate Congress. Another piece of the […]
Joseph Keefe writes a regular column for MaritimeProfessional.com and his column regularly reports on various aspects of the state of maritime education. His most recent […]
Introduction: Last Friday, the Office of Student Activities (“OSA”) published a Facebook post (now removed, but a screen capture is here) about possible weekend activities […]
Earlier this week, Representative Peter T. King and Senator Roger F. Wicker wrote Jim Tobin, the president of the USMMA Alumni Association and Foundation, to […]
An alert alumnus has pointed out an anomaly about the LMI culture study that was commissioned by former Secretary Foxx at a cost of $363,000 […]
A reliable source from within DOT advises me that there are five other commercial shipping companies (in addition to the three that were initially approved […]
If it weren’t for double standards, Academy leadership wouldn’t have any standards at all. This is from the the Facebook page for the USMMA Office […]
After the November elections, the outgoing MARAD and DOT political appointees were forced to scramble. First, they had to confront the reality that neither they […]
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