Air Force Academy leader seeks civilian faculty cuts: Report
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() The superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy is proposing cutting civilian faculty positions to get more uniformed military members in those roles, according to a published report.

The Colorado Springs Gazette, citing internal communications at the Air Force Academy, reported that Superintendent Tony Bauernfeind has floated the idea of having military members make up 80% of the academy’s faculty. To do so, civilian positions would be decreased from 37% to 20%, the report said.

That would involve cutting around 105 civilian spots from the current academy faculty, which includes 491 members, the Gazette reported. There are currently 308 uniformed faculty (62.7%) and 183 civilian faculty members at the Colorado Springs service academy.

An internal piece of communication reviewed by the newspaper said that reducing the Air Force Academy’s faculty to under 400 members would force the academy to cut some majors and “cease many opportunities for cadets”.

Some cadets have criticized on a social media platform that allows them to post anonymously, the report said.

The proposal would require approval from the U.S. Air Force. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for more uniformed military members to teach at U.S. service academies during his confirmation hearings.

“We need more uniformed members going back into West Point, the Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy, as a tour-to-teach, with their wisdom of what they have learned in uniform, instead of just more civilian professors that came from the same left-wing, woke universities that they left, and then try to push that into service academies,” Hegseth said during the hearings.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Air Force, Troy Meink, has not yet been confirmed.

The Gazette report stated that uniformed military members make up 74% of the faculty at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and about 50% of the faculty at the U.S. Naval Academy.

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