Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§7432 Departments and Professors: Titles
Title 10 › Subtitle B — Army › PART III — TRAINING › CHAPTER 753 — UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY › § 7432
Summary
The Secretary of the Army can set the job titles for Academy departments and for its professors. Changing a title does not change a professor’s rank, status, or their eligibility for promotion or retirement, and it does not hurt their position. When a permanent professor becomes the most senior in a department, that professor becomes the department head.
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Title 10, §7432
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(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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102