A Academy's shibboleth is "ex scientia tridens", which literally is Latin for "from knowledge [is] the trident", where a trident is Neptune's / Poseidon's and is a power of the sea; this implies "from knowledge comes sea power". A Academy besides supports a Navy core values of Honor, Braveness, & Commitment & additionally a general idea of "excellence without arrogance."

Description
A USNA's campus is located in Annapolis, Maryland, on the banks of the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay.

Students at a Naval Academy come referred to by their military rank (midshipman). Upon graduation, Naval Academy Midshipmen come commissioned as Ensigns in the U.S. Navy or even Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps, and must help the minimum of 5 years fallowing their commission.

No grad school directly associated by owning a Naval Academy. Instead, a Navy operates a Naval Postgraduate School and the Naval War College separately. A Naval Academy Preparatory School is the official prep school for the Navy and Coast Guard Academies.

Campus
It has grown from either the 40,000 m² (10-acre) Army post named Fort Severn in 1845 to a 1.37 km² (338-acre) campus in the 21st century. Its primary buildings come: Nimitz Library (housing a departments of Language Studies & Political Science, too when a library collection itself); Rickover Hall (housing a departments of Mechanical Engineering, Naval Ocean Engineering, Aeronautical & Aerospace Engineering); Maury Hall (housing a departments of Weapons & Systems Engineering besides when Electrical Engineering); Michelson Hall (housing a departments of Computer Science & Chemistry); Chauvenet Hall (commonly housing a departments of Physics & Maths, however closed for renovations beginning a summertime of 2004); Sampson Hall (housing a departments of English & History); Mahan Hall (containing the theater along sustaining the old library, which has currently been converted into a lounge & meeting room); The chapel (as well, below it, is the crypt of John Paul Jones); Alumni Hall (capable of holding a entire Brigade of Midshipmen & hosting various sporting cases, like basketball); Bancroft Hall (the midshipmen's quarters & the world's big dormitory); Dahlgren Hall (containing an hockey game rink & the eating place locality); Lejeune Hall (built within 1982 - front yard to an Olympic class playing pool); MacDonough Hall (holds the to the full shell gymanstic exercise region too as an replacement playing pool); The Officers' & Faculty Club & officers' quarters spread in a Front yard.

Supervision of the Academy
A academy was set around 1850 the jurisdiction of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, but was transferred to the Bureau of Navigation when that organization was established in 1862. A academy was located under a straight care of the Navy Department in 1867, but for numbers of years a Bureau of Navigation provided administrative routine & fiscal management.

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

Faculty
A faculty is about evenly divided between civilian prof & military teacher. A civilian prof 100% have a Ph.D. and can be awarded tenure, usually upon promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor. Super couple of the military teacher have a Ph.D. however 100% have a Master's degree. Virtually all of the ii come assigned to the Academy for two or deuce-ace years simply.

Permanent Military Professors (PMP)
The little total of war machine teacher come intended when Permanent Military Professors (PMP) & a lot one have a Ph.D. A PMPs remain at a Academy until statutory retirement. Virtually all of the babies come commanders in the Navy; a few come captains. Such as civilian prof, it search academic promotion to the rank of Associate Prof & Prof. Yet, it is non eligible for tenure. In addition, there are Adjunct Professors, hired to fill temporary shortages within various disciplines. A Adjunct Professors are non eligible for tenure.

Midshipmen activities
A Naval Academy's sports teams come known as a Midshipmen, or even Mids for short. Virtually all Midshipmen locate a term "Middies" to exist as derogative, & so come known as this simply by outsiders. It participate in the NCAA's Division I personally-The as an independent within football, & in the Patriot League in many more sports. A eleven competes sustaining a more academies for the Commander in Chief's Trophy and plays in the Army-Navy Game. A mascot occurs as goat known as 'Bill'. Participatiinside inside athletics is compulsory at a Naval Academy, & Midshipmen non on an intercollegiate team everthing must participate actively in intramural sports. Midshipmen as well keep around the chance to participate within a broad range of extracurricular activities including musical performance 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.

History
A institution wwhen founded as a Naval School within 1845 by Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. A campus was established at Annapolis on the evidence of the previous U.S. Army post Fort Severn. A school opened in October 10 with 50 Midshipmen students & 7 prof.

Originally a course of learn for 5 years was prescribed, but only a foremost & go were spent at a school, the more ternion existence passed confounded. A present title was adopted while a school was reorganized around 1850, being located under a oversight of the chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, & under a quick charge of a superintendent, and a course of learn was reach septenary years; a number 1 2 and a survive two to become spent at a school, the intervening ternion years to exist as passed befuddled. A quaternion years of survey were processed sequentially within 1851, and a practice sail were substituted for the ternion sequentially years confounded. A number 1 class of Naval Academy students graduated in June 10, 1854.

The Civil War years
At a eruption of the American Civil War a three upper classes were detached & were ordered to sea, & the academy was moved to Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island in May 1861, but it was brought back to Annapolis in the summertime of 1865.

From the Civil War to World War I
A Spanish-American War greatly emphasized the academy's importance, & a campus was just about altogether rebuilt & tremendously enlarged inside 1899-1906.

Notable Graduates
During a latter half of a 19th century & a number 1 decades of the Twentieth, the Naval Academy was the primary source of U.S. Naval officers. Naval Academy alumni so represent numbers of of the U.S. Navy's best known list. Additionally, additional U.S. Spaceman use graduated from either either a Naval Academy than from any more undergrad institution in the United States.

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

Civil War to 1900
Admiral William Sowden Sims (1858-1936), Class of 1880 - World War I commander; President of the Naval War College Tail Admiral William A. Moffett (1869-1933), Class of 1890 - pioneer of Naval Aviation; first Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics

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 Five-star 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) Vice Admiral Eli Thomas Reich (1913-1999), Class of 1935 - World War II submariner – a la single one to sink a Japanese battlewagon in the period of the war. The Troika instance Navy Cross recipient, 2 instance Navy Distinguished Service Medal recipient, and too Legion of Merit and Bronze Star Medal recipient. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. (1920-2000), Class of 1942 - Chief of Naval Operations during Vietnam War (1970-1974)

1945 to Present
Vice Admiral James Stockdale, (1923- 2005 ), Class of 1946 - Vietnam-era Naval Aviator & POW; Medal of Honor recipient; Vice-presidential candidate (Reform Party, 1992) President James Earl "Jimmy" 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 LtCol Oliver North (1943- ), Class of 1968 - U.S. Marine & Vietnam veteran, White House aide (famous for his role in the Iran-Contra affair), author, hikers of FOX News' "War Stories," and talk radio host James H. Webb, Jr., (1946- ), Class of 1968 - U.S. Marine & Vietnam veteran; Assistant Secretary of Defense; Secretary of the Navy 1987-88; noted American novelist

Graduates famous outside of the Navy
Albert Abraham Michelson (physicist) (1852-1931), Class of 1873 - First U.s. to receive the Nobel Prize within Physics Roger Staubach (1942- ), Class of 1965 - NFL Hall of Fame quarterback with the Dallas Cowboys, 6-period Pro Bowler, 2 instance Super Bowl winner (1972, 1978). Awarded two Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award in 1963, his junior year at a Naval Academy. David Robinson (1965- ), Class of 1987 - Former NBA great with San Antonio Spurs; Rookie of the Year in 1990, MVP within 1995, played on NBA championship teams in 1999 & 2003 Robert A. Heinlein (science fiction author) (1905-1988), Class of 1929. Winner of many Hugo and Nebula Award prizes for groundbreaking science fiction. Matt Blunt (1970-), Class of 1993 - Governor of Missouri (2004-) When of January 2005, 51 Naval Academy graduates keep close at hand be astronauts [http://www.usna.edu/NotableGraduates/Astronauts/]

Appointment Process
By an Work of Congress passed inside 1903, two appointments when Midshipmen (when a students use at times been known as since 1902; "naval cadets" & "cadet Midshipmen" were term utilized at various days around the latter half of the 19th century) were leave every senator, representative, & delegate in Congress, 2 for the District of Columbia, and 5 both month at big. Presently from each one member of Congress & a Vice President might use at times 5 appointees attending a Naval Academy at anytime. After any appointee graduates or even otherwise leaves the academy, a vacancy is created. Candidates come nominated by their senator even, representative, or delegate around Congress, & victims appointive at prominent come nominated per Vice President. A run is non political & applier don't develop to understand their Congresswoman to become nominated. Congresswoman typically nominate tenner population by the vacancy. It might nominate population inside the competitory manner, or even it might have a chief nomination. Around the competitory nomination, entirely tenner applier come reviewed per academy, to watch world health organization is the virtually all experienced enough. In case the representative appoints a chief campaigner, so when yearn when that candidate is physically, medically, & academically encountered proven per academy, he is admitted, possibly in case there are further experienced enough applier. the degree of difficulty inside obtaining a nomination varies greatly based on data from the total of applier inside a particular state. the run of obtaining a nomination generally consists of completing an application, completing of these or even even further essays, & obtaining of these or additional letters of recommendation. These requirements come placed per various senator even or congresswoman & come additionally to the USNA application.

Extra sources of appointment come open to toddlers of career war machine personnel (100 by the season); 170 appointments by the month come for active duty Navy & Marine Corps enlisted personnel; Xx appointments by the season come provided for Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps Midshipmen; and 65 appointments come available to tykes of military members world health organization were flushed withinside action, or even even even were rendered 100% disabled due to injuries received within action, or come presently prisoners of war or missing in action. Occasionally 5 to ten candidates come nominated for both appointment, which are then commonly awarded competetively; candidates world health organization don't receive a appointment it is competing for will however exist as admitted to the Academy as a proven surrogate. In case a candidate is considered experienced enough but not picked higher, it will receive an indirect admission to either the Naval Academy Foundation preparatory school or even the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport; the below month, these candidates receive straight appointment to the Academy.

In addition, kids of Medal of Honor recipients do not require an appointment but only require to qualify for admission.

Admissions Requirements
To exist as admitted, candidates must become an U.s. citizen between seventeen & twenty-3 years aged upon entrance, single using there are no youngsters, & of practiced moral character. the todays run includes a university application, personality researching, standardized touching, & individual information. Candidates for admission must besides undergo the physical aptitude line 2 text besides as the complete physical line 3 text including a separate visual acuity test to become eligible for appointment. Candidates by using to the lesser degree 20/20 vision, likewise as a range of more injuries or even sickness, must use for a medical release. the physical aptitude line 2 text is virtually all typically administered by a high school phyical education teacher or even sports team coach.

Curricula
Congress authorized a Naval Academy to commence awarding Bachelor of Science degrees in 1933. the Academy late replaced a fixed programme taken by tons midshipmen by owning the present core syllabus + Xx major fields of survey, a wide kind of elective & advanced learn & the food and drug administration chance. It wwhen added inside 2001 as a fresh major.

Women at the Naval Academy
A Naval Academy number 1 accepted women while Midshipmen around 1976, when Congress authorized a admission of women to 100% of the service academies. Women comprise astir 15-17 percent of typing cadet—or even freshmen—& it pursue a equivalent faculty member & agent step by step instruction when wash their male schoolmate.

Resulting a Air Force Academy sexual assault scandal and due to concern with sexual assault in the U.S. military the Department of Defense was required to establish a task force to investigate sexual harassment and assault at the United States military academies in the law funding the military for fiscal 2004. A report, issued August 25, 2005 showed that in the period of 2004 50% of the women at Annapolis reported cases of sexual harassment while 111 incidents of sexual assault were reported [http://www.dtic.mil/dtfs/doc_recd/High_GPO_RRC_tx.pdf]. There got been an earliest incident inside 1990 which included male midshipmen chaining the female midshipman to the urinal fallowing she threw the snowball fallowing the two so ingesting pictures of her [http://www.showmenews.com/2003/Mar/20030330News005.asp].

Academy Superintendent, Vice Admiral Rodney Rempt, USN, issued the [http://www.usna.edu/PAO/pressreleases/Statement%20of%20Defense%20Task%20Force%20report.doc statement] has issued a statement, “sustaining the profit of the Defense Project Force’s assessment & recommendations, i personally may prove my point to strive to establish a climate which encourages coverage one incidents, & so i personally may trend lines the victim & treat with allegations fairly and suitably. A super idea that any member of the Naval Academy personal can be a portion of an environment that fosters sexual harassment, misconduct, or assault is of low concern to pine tree state, & these are contrary to completely i am trying to wash & achieve. Preventing & deterring this unacceptable behavior occurs as leadership issue that I personally & all the Academy leaders choose to heart. A public trusts that a Service Academies may attach to a greatest standards & that i might help when beacons that exemplify character, dignity & respect. I may increase my efforts to meet that trust.�

Items of Interest at the Academy
Japanese Bell. This was brought back to the United States by Commodore Matthew Perry following his famous mission to Japan in 1851. A bell is positioned before of Bancroft Hall and rung whenever a Navy wins a Army-Navy Game (football). A todays bell is an accurate replication of a original that the United States Navy returned to the Japanese population in the 1980's.

Tecumseh Statue. This statue occurs as bronze reproduction of a figurehead of ship-of-the-line USS Delaware. It was presented to the Academy per Class of 1891. This bust, one of a best known relics on the campus, is normally referred to as Tecumseh. Yet, whenever it adorned a Western human-of-war, it commemorated non Tecumseh however Tamanend, the venerable Delaware chief world health organization welcomed William Penn to Us. A original wooden figurehead is in the Naval Academy fieldhouse. A bronze reproduction occurs as skillful-luck "mascot" for the midshipmen, world health organization throw pennies at it & offer left salutes when it desire the 'favor', like the sports convince West Point, or even spiritual facilitate for examinations. These are painted inside colorful war paint prior to sporting cases against West Point and during Graduation Week.

Battle ensigns. Famous flags of the U.S. Navy & captured flags from either enemy ships come displayed throughout a academy. A best known, mayhap, is the "Don't Give Up the Ship" flag flown by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813; it bears the anxious words of Captain James Lawrence, captain of the USS Chesapeake. It was displayed around Memorial Hall, which is in the part of Bancroft Hall open to the general public (It is presently undergoing restoration & the reproduction is within its place).

Herndon Monument. Every season when a share of the year prevent celebration, this monument is covered by using lard & "Plebes" (freshmen or even For Class Midshipmen) attempt to climb the monument, dislodge the "dixie cup" (the headwear of the cadet) & put a hat ("cover") in top. (Understand a pic at a top of this web site...) This symbolizes a successful completion of their 1st month. Legend likewise has it that a plebe world health organization pages a sailors cap upon a monument is a foremost member of a class to email the rank of Admiral. A Monument was licenced per Officers of the U.S. Navy as a tribute to Commander William Lewis Herndon (1813-1857) after his loss in the Pacific Mail Steamer "Central America" in the period of the hurricane off Georgia in September 12, 1857. Herndon got followed the long period custom of the sea that a ship's captawithin is the survive human to depart his ship in peril. It was erected inside its todays locatiin on June 16, 1860 & has never been moved potentially though a Academy was wholly rebuilt between 1899 & 1908.

Reference
Some public domain text from either a 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Upgrade as required.