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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo Tuesday directing institutions like the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy in Annapolis to immediately stop granting tenure to civilian faculty, in Hegseth's latest change to military higher education.
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Hegseth → sign → education
"Tenure often leads to academic stagnation, faculty complacency, and institutional inability to adapt to emerging needs," he wrote.
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he → lead → needs
"Additionally, it contributes to curriculum that drifts from the mission of educating our warfighters to the research priorities of the tenured academics.
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that → contribute → academics
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Hegseth said his goal is to "address the structural mechanisms that have allowed civilian academic norms to dilute our focus on lethality."
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norms → say → lethality
The move comes two months after
that top Pentagon officials were considering ending civilian tenure at the military academies and launching a "line-by-line" review of their courses, eliminating classes that were judged to be "ideologically driven.
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that → come → classes
"The service academies' teaching staff includes a mixture of active-duty officers and civilians.
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staff → include → officers
Only about 25% of the faculty at the Army's West Point academy are civilians, while the Naval Academy has roughly equal numbers of civilians and officers.
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Academy → have → civilians
For decades, civilian faculty members have been granted tenure.
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members → grant → tenure
During a Senate hearing last year, Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, then-superintendent of the Naval Academy, described tenure as a "wonderful recruiting tool" that attracts "the best and the brightest."
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that → describe → best
The service academies have long sought to balance their roles both as military institutions that prepare future officers and accredited, rigorous universities.
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that → seek → officers
Retired Lt. Gen. Steven Gilland, former superintendent of the Military Academy, told lawmakers last year the school is designed to equip future military leaders with "the intellectual agility needed to make critical decisions in the chaos of war."
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school → retire → war
But Hegseth has pushed for sweeping changes, alleging the military's educational system is ideologically skewed.
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system → push → changes
Since he took the helm as defense secretary, the Pentagon has directed the military to halt all instruction on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Pentagon → take → diversity
that address race and gender, at Harvard and Princeton, andHegseth suggested during his Senate confirmation hearings last year that he planned to take aim at civilian faculty.
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he → address → faculty
"We need more uniformed members going back into West Point, the Air Force Academy, the Naval Academy as a tour to teach with their wisdom of what they've learned in uniform," he said, "instead of just more civilian professors that came from the same left-wing, woke universities."
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