A new vibe at Kings Point
I’m at the Academy homecoming for my 35th reunion. Some of you will recall that I went to last year’s homecoming and reported on what […]
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A powerful opening statement from Maritime Administrator nominee Mark Buzby for today’s nomination hearing
In a few minutes, RADM Mark H. Buzby (USN Ret.) will deliver his opening statement for today’s nomination hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee. The […]
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This is why sea year is not close to 84% (or 81%) restored
In my post explaining (and then criticizing) how MARAD arrived at its calculation for the percentage restoration of sea year, part of my criticism analyzed […]
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Village of Kings Point offers SASH resource to midshipmen
George Banville, the Commissioner of the Village of Kings Point Police Department, is trying to get the word out to midshipmen at the Academy about […]
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Helis cannot solve USMMA’s SASH under-reporting problem . . .
Because he is the problem. It is critical that the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy have well-defined procedures for assisting victims of sexual assault/sexual harassment (“SASH”). […]
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The Campus is our World [updated]
Sea year on the Kings Pointer begins for the B-Splits In contrast with MARAD’s optimistic calculation of the restoration of sea year, a dozen or […]
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How MARAD is calculating the restoration of sea year
We aren’t close to full restoration. Over the last six weeks, I’ve had a productive dialogue with Owen Doherty, an Associate Administrator at MARAD regarding […]
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[UPDATED with copy of monitoring report] MSCHE report is out: Academy remains on accreditation warning
UPDATE: Link to the full Academy monitoring report added at the end of this post. Today the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (“MSCHE”) released […]
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Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby, ’79, to be nominated as Maritime Administrator
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 […]
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Breaking: Current data about sea year
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 […]
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[Update re today’s court hearing] Why I haven’t posted about the soccer team issue
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 […]
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Dear Secretary Chao: MARAD is undermining you.
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 […]
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Only 10% of 2020 B-Splits will go out to sea on time
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 […]
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Breaking: OSG approved for sea year (and data from MARAD on how it calculates sea year restoration is coming)
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 […]
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Why has MARAD not disputed my data on sea year?
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 […]
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Breaking: Liberty Maritime has reportedly suspended participation in sea year
Two days ago, we revealed the true statistics about the restoration of sea year. They were bleak — and not nearly as rosy as the […]
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84% of all MARAD employees who testify before Congress commit perjury***
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 […]
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Yesterday’s hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
[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.] […]
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What are they hiding?
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 […]
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At last — the Academy’s submission to MSCHE
Spoiler alert: whole lotta’ nothing . . . so far. In the continuing quest to provide Academy stakeholders with basic information about the ongoing threat […]
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(Update 2) Senate Hearing today on SASH at USMMA (with link)
(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 […]
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UPDATED: Does this qualify as an update on accreditation?
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: […]
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MARAD: No urgency to inform the public about the threat to the Academy’s accreditation
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 […]
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Time to force some more transparency at Kings Point (Updated)
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 […]
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How MARAD Snookered Senators Fischer and Booker and Congress
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 […]
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By hijacking the Congressional SAPR Working Group, MARAD creates a new reaccreditation risk
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 […]
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Will MARAD’s departed politicos succeed in hijacking the SAPR Working Group created by Congress?
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 […]
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Beyond ridiculous. Yet another (actually a continuing) example of failed leadership.
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 […]
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This proves that the administration does not take accreditation seriously
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 […]
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A recent letter from the president of New York (SUNY) Maritime deserves your attention
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, […]
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