§1943 — Title 14 Coast Guard | U.S. Code

Summary

The President can appoint professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and instructors to the Coast Guard Academy, but those appointments need Senate approval. If someone is hired for the first time and has not previously served in the Coast Guard in one of the listed roles, the appointment is temporary until they complete a four-year probationary period; after satisfactory service they can be made permanent, with their permanent rank dated from the start of the temporary appointment.

Title 14, §1943

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The President may appoint in the Coast Guard, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and instructors who are to serve on the permanent commissioned teaching staff of the Academy. An original appointment to the permanent commissioned teaching staff, unless the appointee has served as a civilian member of the teaching staff, regular commissioned officer, temporary commissioned officer, or reserve commissioned officer in the Coast Guard, shall be a temporary appointment until the appointee has satisfactorily completed a probationary term of four years of service; thereafter he may be regularly appointed and his rank shall date from the date of his temporary appointment in the grade in which permanently appointed.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 15b (Apr. 16, 1937, ch. 107, § 1, 50 Stat. 66; May 2, 1942, ch. 273, 56 Stat. 265). Said section has been divided. That part of the first sentence which provides for the composition of the teaching staff is incorporated in section 187 of this title. The other provisions are incorporated in this section, except for the proviso which has been omitted as no longer needed. This section incorporates the following changes because of the new plan for the permanent teaching staff: the President is authorized to appoint a candidate to any of the grades prescribed; and the probationary term, applicable unless the candidate has served in the Coast Guard as prescribed in this section, is increased from two to four years. Authorization for appointment in any grade is deemed desirable in order to permit the acquisition of outstanding instructors for the staff. It is believed that the former two-year period was too short to fully evaluate the capabilities of a temporary appointee. 81st Congress,

House Report No. 557

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 188 of this title as this section. 1976—Pub. L. 94–546 substituted “grade in which permanently appointed” for “rank in which permanently appointed”. 1960—Pub. L. 86–474 substituted “and instructors who are to serve” for “and commissioned instructors who are to serve”, and “civilian member of the teaching staff” for “civilian instructor”.

§1943 Appointment of Permanent Commissioned Teaching Staff