Faculty Information & Resources

Our faculty is an integrated group of nearly 600 officers and civilians in roughly equal numbers. This composition is unique among service academies, and dates from the earliest days of the Naval School when three civilian teachers joined four Navy officers in the first faculty in 1845.

Officers typically rotate to the Academy for two-to-three-year assignments, bringing fresh ideas and experiences from operational units of the Navy and Marine Corps. They can also explain how studies at the Academy apply in the fleet and the field. A cadre of officer faculty with doctorates adds another dimension to the teaching staff as Permanent Military Professors.

The Academy’s civilian faculty members give continuity and further scholarly depth to the educational program and form a core of professional scholarship and teaching experience. All career civilian faculty members have doctoral degrees, and many of them are leading scholars in their fields. Working together, our military and civilian instructors form one of the strongest and most dedicated teaching faculties of any college or university in the United States.

Faculty Performance Expectations

• Faculty Performance Expectations: Practical Guidance
• Dean's Annual Letter (a.k.a. "The Epistle")
• Annual Performance Evaluation Forms
  • PARS for Faculty Form (fillable)
  • PARS for Civilian Department Chairs (fillable)
  • PARS for Administrative Faculty Form (fillable)

Faculty Resources

• Civilian Employee Benefits
• Equal Employment Opportunity Office Intranet  EEO Office Main Line x3558
• Faculty Family Leave Information
• Human Resources Office: Public 
• Sexual Assault Prevention & Response (SAPR) Intranet 
• Sexual Assault Prevention & Response (SAPR) Website
• From Knowledge, Sea Power Trifold
• HRD
• Institutional Research Data Requests (i.e. how to request MIDS data on a past student seeking a reference)
• Link for MO/Excusal Submission Survey

Faculty Senate

• Faculty Senate Charter

New Faculty

• New Faculty Orientation New faculty orientation for AY2024 will be held Wednesday through Friday, 2-4 August 2023. Inquiries should be directed to CDR Michael Manicchia (410-293-6652, manicchi@usna.edu).
• New Faculty Department Check List

Retired/Retiring Faculty

• HR's Planning for Retirement
• Information about Network and Library Access for Retired Faculty

Inquiries about faculty positions at the Naval Academy may be directed by email to: Dr. D. W. O'Sullivan, Vice Academic Dean: osulliva@usna.edu.