California State University Maritime Academy

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California State University Maritime Academy
Calmaritime.png
Former names
 California Nautical School (1929–39)
California Maritime Academy
Motto Parati Sumus (Latin)
Motto in English
 To Work or Fight We Are Ready
Type Public university
Established 1929[1]
Endowment $6.7 million (2014)[2]
President Thomas A. Cropper
Students 1,046 (Fall 2013)[3]
Undergraduates 1,045 (Fall 2013) [4]
Location
Vallejo
,
California
,
United States
Campus 89 acres
Affiliations California State University system
Mascot Keelhaulers
Website csum.edu
Cal Maritime banner.png

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The California State University Maritime Academy (CSU Maritime Academy), formerly known as California Maritime Academy,[5] is one of 23 campuses in the California State University system and is one of only seven degree-granting maritime academies in the United States and the only one on the West Coast.[6] It is located in Vallejo, California. The university offers six different Bachelor's degrees, and one Master's degree, but no Doctoral degrees.[7][8]

History

The California Nautical School was established in 1929, when California State Assembly Bill No. 253 was signed into law by Governor C. C. Young. The bill authorized the creation of the school, the appointment of a Board of Governors to manage the school and the acquisition of a training vessel. The school's mission was "to give practical and theoretical instruction in navigation, seamanship, steam engines, gas engines, and electricity in order to prepare young men to serve as officers in the American Merchant Marine." By 1930, a training vessel and a school site was acquired; the original location of what would become California Maritime Academy was California City (now Tiburon, California) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Due to the Great Depression, the early days of the Academy were full of financial uncertainty. As early as 1933, some state legislators were calling for the school's abolition. In order to save money, the cadets and instructors alike lived and held classes aboard the training vessel, the T.S. California State. Only after the passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 did the funding for the Academy stabilize.

TS Golden Bear after it was hauled out and painted a navy blue.

In 1939 the California Nautical School adopted the name, the California Maritime Academy. By 1940, the Academy was granting Bachelor of Science degrees and Naval Reserve commissions to its graduates; this step marked the beginning of the transition from the status of trade school to college. In 1943, the Academy moved to its present location in Vallejo, California.

In the 1970s, after surviving another round of budget cuts and calls for the Academy's abolition, California Maritime Academy became a four-year institution. The 1970s also marked the time when the first minority and female cadets graduated from California Maritime Academy.

In 1996 California Maritime Academy became the twenty-second campus of the California State University system. The new affiliation improved the Academy's funding prospects considerably. The current training vessel is the T.S. Golden Bear, and is the third training ship to carry that name.

In September 2015, President Cropper proposed a campus name change before the California State University Board of Trustees from the California Maritime Academy to California State University Maritime Academy. It was approved.[9]

Superintendents and presidents

A rear admiral's flag.

Since the passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, the position of President of the California Maritime Academy is commissioned as a Rear Admiral (Upper Half) in the United States Maritime Service. Two past Presidents are alumni of the Academy itself.

From To Name Rank Notes
May 11, 1930 February 14, 1934 Emil Topp LCDR, USN (ret)
February 15, 1934 June 30, 1937 Dr. Richard C. Dwyer See Note 1
July 1, 1937 June 30, 1940 Neil E. Nichols CAPT, USN (ret)
July 1, 1940 October 31, 1947 Claude B. Mayo CAPT, USN (ret) See Note 2
November 1, 1947 February 15, 1955 Russel M. Ihreg COMMO, USN (ret)
February 16, 1955 June 20, 1955 Carroll T. Bonney CAPT, USN (ret) Acting Superintendent
June 21, 1955 November 1, 1965 Henry E. Richter CAPT, USN (ret)
October 15, 1965 October 1, 1971 Francis T. Williamson RADM, USN (ret)
October 1, 1971 August 1, 1972 Edwin C. Miller CDR, USN (ret) '34-D CMA, Interim See Note 3,
August 2, 1972 November 11, 1983 Joseph P. Rizza RADM, USMS CAPT, USN (ret), See Note 4
November 11, 1983 August 31, 1990 John J. Ekelund RADM, USMS RADM, USN (ret)
August 31, 1990 June 30, 1996 Dr. Mary E. Lyons RADM, USMS CDR, USNR
July 1, 1996 June 30, 2001 Jerry A. Aspland RADM, USMS '62-D CMA
July 1, 2001 June 30, 2012 Dr. William B. Eisenhardt RADM, USMS[10] Unk, USN
July 1, 2012 Present Thomas A. Cropper RADM, USMS[11] RDML, USN (ret)
  1. R.C.Dwyer replaced by N.E. Nichols due to Navy requirements for regular Navy officers to be in charge of Navy-owned ships.
  2. Early WWII – Superintendent and Master became separate positions.
  3. Edwin C. Miller appointed Interim Superintendent October 1971 – July 1972.
  4. On February 27, 1975, the title of "Superintendent" was changed to "President."

Training Ships

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Main article: Golden Bear (ship)
From To Name Former Name
1931 1946 T. S. California State/ T. S. Golden State USS Henry County (IX-34)
1946 1971 T. S. Golden Bear USS Mellena (AKA-32)
1971 1995 T. S. Golden Bear II USS Crescent City (APA-21)
1996 Present T. S. Golden Bear III USNS Maury (T-AGS 39)

Academics

Demographics of student body
Undergraduate
African American 3.3%
Asian American 11.6%
White American 46.1%
Hispanic American 7.5%
Native American 1.1%
Ethnicity unreported/unknown 30.4%

Degree programs

Cal Maritime offers one graduate and six undergraduate degrees, all of which are tied to a nautical curriculum. The degrees offered are as follows:

Graduate

The graduate program is a course of study in business and management fundamentals combined with specialized preparation for career advancement in Engineering, Transportation, or Humanitarian Disaster Management. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

  • Transportation & Engineering Management (M.S.)[12]

Undergraduate

Majors

ABS School of Maritime Policy and Management

The Business Administration program is accredited by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE)

  • Global Studies and Maritime Affairs (B.A.)[13]
  • International Business and Logistics (B.S.)[14]

Department of Marine Transportation

  • Marine Transportation (B.S.)[15]

Department of Engineering Technology

The Engineering Technology programs are accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET

  • Marine Engineering Technology (B.S.)[16]
  • Facilities Engineering Technology (B.S.)[17]

Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET

  • Mechanical Engineering (B.S.)[18]
Minors
  • Business
  • Marine Science
  • Global Studies
  • Law
  • Naval Science
  • Power Generation (Mechanical Engineering majors only)

Rankings

Money Magazine ranked California Maritime Academy 79th in the country out of the nearly 1500 schools it evaluated for its 2014 Best Colleges ranking.[19]

In 2013 Forbes ranked California Maritime Academy as the 293rd best university in the nation and 56th in the West.[20]

The 2013 U.S. News & World Report college rankings lists California Maritime Academy as 2nd in the category "Regional Colleges (West)".[21]

Corps of Cadets

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Main article: California Maritime Academy Corps of Cadets

California Maritime Academy is the United States' only maritime academy on the West Coast. It is also the only university on the West Coast that requires all undergraduate students to participate in the Corps of Cadets. The only similar program on the West Coast is at the junior college New Mexico Military Institute. Since Maritime Academies comply with Title 46 Part 310 of the Code of Federal Regulations students are referred to as Cadets, required to wear uniforms, and utilize a demerit-based disciplinary system. Participation in Navy Reserve Merchant Marine training program is no longer required, but Cadets still utilize Merchant Marine Navy-style uniforms, customs, and traditions. Based on academic majors cadets are organized into Squads, Sections, Divisions and Companies which regularly muster in Morning Formations multiple times a week, as well as stand watches on campus and aboard the training ship.[22]

Military options

There is no armed service obligation attached to graduation from the California Maritime Academy. However, financial aid and additional career opportunities exist for those students who choose to participate in any of the several military programs available on the CMA campus:

Athletics

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The Keelhauler Logo

Athletics teams at California Maritime Academy are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the California Pacific Conference (CalPac). Men's sports include basketball, crew, cross country, golf, rugby, sailing, soccer and water polo; while women's sports include basketball, crew, cross country, sailing, and water polo. The name of the intercollegiate athletic program is "Keelhaulers". The women's sports teams are informally known as "Sea Hags".

The Keelhauler mascot was chosen as Cal Maritime’s athletic mascot by cadets in 1974, the name taken from a form of corporal punishment that was formerly used in the Dutch and English navies. Keelhauling involved tying the hands of a crewmember to a rope and hauling him under the keel of the ship. While the practice of Keelhauling was formally abolished in 1853, the Keelhauler lives on as the official mascot of Cal Maritime athletics.

Cal Maritime has a long history of athletic activities. Before it joined regular intercollegiate athletics, sports teams from Cal Maritime usually played military teams from local bases. In the 1970s, Cal Maritime began to organize its sports under intercollegiate guidelines, and the student body chose the "Keelhauler" as the Academy's mascot. Until then, the Academy's teams were known as the Seawolves. During the 2004–2005 academic year, the women's basketball team was formed and now also competes in the CalPac.

Cal Maritime's rugby program was started in 1998 and gained varsity status in 2001. Rugby was at one time the school's most successful sport, going undefeated against Division 2 opponents in home matches from 2007-2010.[27] Cal Maritime's rugby team has been nationally ranked in college rugby, won the Pacific Coast League's Western Division Championship in 2009 and 2010, and was the runner up in the 2012 championship of the National Small College Rugby Organization.

The Academy's sailing team captured the Kennedy Cup – the National Collegiate Sailing Championship – in the fall of 2009. That victory earned it the right to serve as the U.S. representative in the annual Student World Yachting Cup championships in October 2010 in La Rochelle, France, where it placed 5th of 14.

In 2012, the Varsity 4+ of the men's crew team took first place in its event at the Head of the American Regatta. It beat teams from UC Davis, UC Berkeley Lightweight, Sacramento State, CSU Long Beach, Humboldt, Saint Mary's College, Sonoma State, and University of the Pacific. At the 2013 WIRA championships, the men's pair placed 2nd out of 16, while the men's novice 4+ placed 6th out of 19.[28] Also in 2012, California Maritime Academy added a Men's Cross Country Team that finished 5th out of 8 teams in the Cal Pac Conference.

In 2014, the California Maritime Academy added a women's water polo team.

Notable Alumni

Kate McCue, Class of 2000 - First American female cruise ship captain with Celebrity Cruises.[29]

See also

Notes

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  10. ↑ Douglas Peterson. (2004). A Brief History: The California Maritime Academy Historical Archives. Retrieved July 29, 2014, from https://www.csum.edu/web/about/history
  11. ↑ Cal Maritime Administration (accessed July 17, 2012)
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  27. ↑ Cal Maritime, Cal Maritime's Highly Successful Rugby Coach Announces Departure, August 25, 2010, http://www.csum.edu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=1a48d66d-7506-4e55-aec4-88776bcd4a14&groupId=61902
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External links

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