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The Academy is often referred to simply as "Annapolis" although naval officers normally refer to it in conversation as "the Academy" or "the Boat School,",while Midshipmen at the Academy often refer to the town of Annapolis as "Crab Town." U.S. sports media refer to the Academy as Navy, and this usage is officially endorsed. ROTC and Officer Candidate School graduates as well as cadets from the Air Force Academy and the Military Academy at West Point often refer to the Naval Academy as "Canoe U."

There is no graduate school directly associated with the Naval Academy. Instead, the Navy operates the Naval Postgraduate SchoolThe Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, United States is a graduate school operated by the United States Navy. It grants graduate degrees to its students, who for the most part are officers in the United States Navy. Some students who are o, the Naval War CollegeThe Naval War College (NWC of the United States Navy is an education and research institution that specializes in developing ideas for naval strategy and passing them along to officers of the Navy. The College was established on 6 October 1884 and its fir and Marine Corps University separately. The Naval Academy Preparatory SchoolThe Naval Academy Preparatory School or NAPS is the preparatory school for the United States Naval Academy and United States Coast Guard Academy providing for the strengthen of academic potential of canidates to each of these institutions. Located at NETC is the official prep school for the Navy and Coast GuardThe United States Coast Guard Academy located in New London, Connecticut, is a U. military academy that provides education to future officers of the United States Coast Guard. History The roots of the academy lie in the School of Instruction of the Revenu Academies.

1 Campus

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2 Supervision of the Academy

The academy was placed in 1850 the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography , but was transferred to the Bureau of Navigation when that organization was established in 1862. The academy was placed under the direct care of the Navy Department in 1867, but for many years the Bureau of Navigation provided administrative routine and financial management.

As of 2004, the Superintendent of the Naval Academy reports directly to the Chief of Naval Operations.

3 Faculty

The faculty is roughly evenly divided between civilian professors and military instructors. The civilian professors nearly all have a Ph.D. and can be awarded tenure, usually upon promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor. Very few of the military instructors have a Ph.D. but nearly all have a Master's degree. Most of them are assigned to the Academy for two or three years only.

3.1 Permanent Military Professors (PMP)

A small number of military instructors are designated as Permanent Military Professors (PMP) and all of these have a Ph.D. The PMPs remain at the Academy until statutory retirement. Most of them are commanders in the Navy; a few are captains. Like civilian professors, they seek academic promotion to the rank of Associate Professor and Professor. However, they are not eligible for tenure. Additionally, there are Adjunct Professors , hired to fill temporary shortages in various disciplines. The Adjunct Professors are not eligible for tenure.

4 Midshipmen activities

The Naval Academy's sports teams are called the Midshipmen, or Middies. They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A as an independent in football, and in the Patriot League in many other sports. The mascot is a goat named 'Bill'. Participation in athletics is mandatory at the Naval Academy, and Midshipmen not on an intercollegiate team all must participate actively in intramural sports. Midshipmen also have the opportunity to participate in a broad range of extracurricular activities including performing musical groups (Drum & Bugle Corps, Men's Glee Club, Women's Glee Club, Gospel Choir, and even a bagpipe band, the Pipes & Drums), religious organizations, academic honor societies, Campus Girl Scouts, the National Eagle Scout Association, a radio station, Navy and Marine Corps professional activities (diving, flying, seamanship, and the Semper Fidelis Society for future Marines), and a broad range of non-NCAA club sports including rugby, hockey and even a completely unofficial (but previous National Champion) croquet team.

5 History

The institution was founded as the Naval School in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. The campus was established at Annapolis on the grounds of the former U.S. Army post Fort Severn. The school opened on October 10 with 50 Midshipmen students and seven professors.

Originally a course of study for five years was prescribed, but only the first and last were spent at the school, the other three being passed at sea. The present name was adopted when the school was reorganized in 1850, being placed under the supervision of the chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography , and under the immediate charge of the superintendent, and the course of study was extended to seven years; the first two and the last two to be spent at the school, the intervening three years to be passed at sea. The four years of study were made consecutive in 1851, and the practice cruises were substituted for the three consecutive years at sea. The first class of Naval Academy students graduated on June 10, 1854.

5.1 The Civil War years

At the outbreak of the American Civil War the three upper classes were detached and were ordered to sea, and the academy was removed to Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island in May 1861, but it was brought back to Annapolis in the summer of 1865.

5.2 From the Civil War to World War I

The Spanish-American War greatly emphasized the academy's importance, and the campus was almost wholly rebuilt and much enlarged in 1899-1906.

6 Notable Graduates

During the latter half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, the Naval Academy was the primary source of U.S. Naval officers. Naval Academy alumni thus represent many of the U.S. Navy's most famous names.

6.1 Pre-Civil War

Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), Class of 1859 - theorist of sea power
Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley (1839-1911), Class of 1860 - commander in Spanish-American War
Rear Admiral William T. Sampson (1840-1902), Class of 1861 - commander in Spanish-American War

6.2 Civil War to 1900

Admiral William Sowden Sims (1858-1936), Class of 1880 - World War I commander; President of the Naval War College
Rear Admiral William A. Moffett (1869-1933), Class of 1890 - pioneer of Naval Aviation ; first Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics

6.3 1900 to World War II

Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (1876-1956), Class of 1901 - Chief of Naval Operations in World War II
Fleet Admiral William Halsey, Jr., (1882-1959), Class of 1904 - World War II commander
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz (1885-1966), Class of 1905 - World War II commander; post-war Chief of Naval Operations
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (1900-1986), Class of 1922 - Submariner and Engineering Duty Officer; "Father of the Nuclear Navy" as Director of the Naval Reactors Branch in the Bureau of Ships (1949-1982); served 64 years of active service
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke (1901-1996), Class of 1923 - World War II carrier commander; Chief of Naval Operations (1955-1961)
Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. (1920-2000), Class of 1942 - Chief of Naval Operations during Vietnam War (1970-1974)

6.4 1945 to Present

Vice Admiral James Stockdale, (1923- ), Class of 1946 - Vietnam-era Naval Aviator & POW; Medal of Honor recipient; Vice-presidential candidate (Reform Party, 1992)
President James Earl Carter, Jr., (1924- ), Class of 1946 - Post-WW II submariner; Governor of Georgia; 39th President of the United States, 1977-1981
Admiral William J. Crowe, (1925- ), Class of 1947 - Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1985-1989, Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1994-1997.
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), (1936- ), Class of 1958 - Vietnam-era Naval Aviator & POW; U.S. Senator
Lt. Col. Oliver North (1943- ), Class of 1968 - U.S. Marine and Vietnam veteran, White House aide (famous for his role in the Iran-Contra affair), author, host of FOX News' "War Stories," and talk-radio host
James H. Webb, Jr., (1946- ), Class of 1968 - U.S. Marine and Vietnam veteran; Assistant Secretary of Defense; Secretary of the Navy 1987-88; noted American novelist

6.5 Graduates famous outside of the Navy

David Robinson (1965- ), Class of 1987 - Former NBA great with San Antonio Spurs; Rookie of the Year in 1990, MVP in 1995, played on NBA championship teams in 1999 and 2003

7 Appointment Process

By an Act of Congress passed in 1903, two appointments as Midshipmen (as the students have been called since 1902; "naval cadets" and "cadet Midshipmen" were term used at various times in the latter half of the 19th century) were allowed for each senator, representative, and delegate in Congress, two for the District of Columbia, and five each year at large. Currently each member of Congress and the Vice President can have five appointees attending the Naval Academy at any time. When any appointee graduates or otherwise leaves the academy, a vacancy is created. Candidates are nominated by their senator, representative, or delegate in Congress, and those appointed at large are nominated by the Vice President. The process is not political and applicants do not have to know their Congressman to be nominated.

Additional sources of appointment are open to sons and daughters of career military personnel (100 per year); 170 appointments per year are for active duty Navy and Marine Corps enlisted personnel; 20 appointments per year are provided for Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Midshipmen; and 65 appointments are available to sons and daughters of military members who were killed in action, or were rendered 100% disabled due to injuries received in action, or are currently prisoners of war or missing in action. Typically five to ten candidates are nominated for each appointment, which are normally awarded competetively; candidates who do not receive the appointment they are competing for may still be admitted to the Academy as a qualified alternate. If a canidate is considered qualified but not picked up, they may receive an indirect admission to either a Naval Academy Foundation prep school or the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport; the following year, these canidates recieve direct appointment to the Academy.

Additionally, sons or daughters of Medal of Honor winners do not need an appointment but only need to qualify for admission. To be admitted, candidates must be an American citizen between seventeen and twenty-three years of age upon entrance, unmarried with no children, and of good moral character. The current process includes a university application, personality testing, standardized testing, and personal references.

8 Curricula

Congress authorized the Naval Academy to begin awarding Bachelor of Science degrees in 1933. The Academy later replaced a fixed curriculum taken by all midshipmen with the present core curriculum plus 20 major fields of study, a wide variety of elective courses and advanced study and research opportunities. Information Technology was added in 2001 as the newest major.

9 Women at the Naval Academy

The Naval Academy first accepted women as Midshipmen in 1976, when Congress authorized the admission of women to all of the service academies. Women comprise about 20 percent of entering plebes—or freshmen—and they pursue the same academic and professional training as do their male classmates.

10 Reference

Some public domain text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Update as needed.

11 External links

United States military academies United States Navy Universities and colleges in Maryland

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