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- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a halt to new civilian tenure appointments at the five U.S. service academies on Tuesday.
- The memo argues tenure dilutes the academies’ warfighting mission and causes academic stagnation.
- West Point’s faculty is reported to be 27% civilian.
- The Naval Academy employs 217 tenured civilian professors and 67 civilian professors on the tenure track.