Articles by Andy Simpson, KP '82

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 […]

Here’s the text of the email released  by MARAD: MARAD 01-17 Wednesday, February 15, 2017 Contact:  Kim Strong Tel.:  (202) 366-5807 United States Merchant Marine […]

The late General Norman Schwarzkopf once said: “You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do […]

That’s the title of this guest column in The Virginian-Pilot by Lt. Gen. Kenneth Wykle (US Army, retired), the former deputy commander in chief of […]

Captain R.J. Klein, the Immediate Past President of the Council of American Master Mariners, has an article in Forbes that offers a concise analysis of […]

In our continuing effort to assist MARAD with its “new era of transparency,”  I put out a request the other day for MARAD or anyone […]

Soon-to-be-former Deputy Maritime Administrator Michael “Anchorman” Rodriguez told the midshipmen during the January 6, 2017 all-hands meeting (audio here) that they shouldn’t believe the rumors […]

Another alum who has been working behind the scenes came up with this interesting comparison of statements by Academy leadership about the timeline for restoring […]

In the January 6, 2017 all-hands meeting, Superintendent Helis assured the regiment of midshipmen and faculty that there was “a way ahead to restore training […]

Click on the link to be redirected to audio from today’s town hall brought to you by Maritime TV. Spoiler alert:  they didn’t answer our questions.

[updated to clarify the date of the town hall] For the January 17, 2017 town hall meeting, we thought it might save everyone a lot […]