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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§7432 Departments and professors: titles

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle B— - Army › Part PART III— - TRAINING › Chapter CHAPTER 753— - UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY › § 7432

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Army Secretary can change the names of Academy departments and the titles of professors. Those name changes do not change a professor’s rank or their eligibility for promotion or retirement. If a permanent professor becomes the senior professor in a department, that professor becomes the department head.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7432

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of the Army may prescribe the titles of each of the departments of instruction and the professors of the Academy. However, the change of the title of a department or officer does not affect the status, rank, or eligibility for promotion or retirement of, or otherwise prejudice, a professor at the Academy.
(b)Upon becoming the senior professor in a department, a permanent professor thereby becomes the head of that department.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4332(a)4332(b)10:1061a.10:1087 (proviso).Dec. 14, 1942, ch. 729, 56 Stat. 1049.
June 26, 1946, ch. 495, § 1 (proviso), 60 Stat. 312. In subsection (a), the words “now or after
December 14, 1942, established at” are omitted as surplusage. The word “precedence” is omitted as covered by the word “rank”. The words “pay, allowances” are omitted, since they are determined by the grade held. The words “from time to time”, “shall be known”, and “operate in any case or on any account” are omitted as surplusage.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 7432 was renumbered section 8732 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4332 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7432

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73