{"id":168064,"date":"2025-03-31T07:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=168064"},"modified":"2025-03-31T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:43:12","slug":"usna-dei-no-longer-enrollment-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168064","title":{"rendered":"USNA- DEI No Longer Enrollment Criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168065 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/usnahats-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/usnahats-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/usnahats.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>US Naval Academy, Annapolis MD<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Brian Witte, The Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ANNAPOLIS, Md. \u2014 The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service institution, a response to an executive order by President Donald Trump, according to federal court documents made public Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The change in policy was made in February by Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the academy\u2019s superintendent, in response to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump in January, according to a court filing by the U.S. Justice Department in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s order on Jan. 27 said that \u201cevery element of the Armed Forces should operate free from any preference based on race or sex.\u201d It also directed the secretary of defense to conduct an internal review with respect to all \u201cactivities designed to promote a race- or sex-based preferences system,\u201d including reviews at the service academies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder revised internal guidance issued by the Superintendent on Feb. 14, 2025, neither race, ethnicity, nor sex can be considered as a factor for admission at any point during the admissions process, including qualification and acceptance,\u201d according to the court filing made public Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2025\/03\/28\/us-naval-academy-ends-affirmative-action-in-admissions\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This does not sit well with Maryland&#8217;s political overlords. Congressional Representative Sarah Elfreth- who serves on the Academy\u2019s Board of Visitors- criticized the change stating \u201cThis disastrous decision will have negative implications on our military\u2019s recruitment and retention for decades to come.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>She trots out the tired old trope of DEI being crucial for mission readiness and national security, and how its removal will harm recruiting.<\/p>\n<p>She fails to mention exactly how this dire prognosis will come to pass, and why the military is currently enjoying a surge in recruitment. Surprised? Me neither.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Naval Academy, Annapolis MD US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions By Brian Witte, &hellip; <a title=\"USNA- DEI No Longer Enrollment Criteria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168064\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USNA- DEI No Longer Enrollment Criteria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":168065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,75,693],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-navy","category-blue-skies","category-dei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}