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Month: March 2017

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Time to force some more transparency at Kings Point (Updated)

March 27, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 5

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

March 24, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 18

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

March 7, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 10

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?

March 6, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 2

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.

March 2, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 2

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

March 1, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 3

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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