California State University Maritime Academy

California State University Maritime Academy

Former names	California Nautical School (1929–39) California Maritime Academy
Motto	Parati Sumus (Latin)
Motto in English	To Work or Fight We Are Ready
Type	Public university
Established	1929^[1]
Endowment	$6.8 million (2015)^[2]
President	Thomas A. Cropper
Students	1,075 (Fall 2015)^[3]
Undergraduates	1,052 (Fall 2015)^[3]
Postgraduates	23 (Fall 2015)^[3]
Location	Vallejo, California, United States
Campus	89 acres
Athletics	National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) California Pacific Conference (CalPac)
Mascot	Keelhaulers
Affiliations	California State University system
Website	csum.edu

The California State University Maritime Academy (CSU Maritime Academy), formerly known as California Maritime Academy,^[4] is one of 23 campuses in the California State University system and is one of only seven degree-granting maritime academies in the United States and the only one on the West Coast.^[5] It is located in Vallejo, California. The university offers six different Bachelor's degrees, and one Master's degree, but no Doctoral degrees.^[6]^[7]

History

The California Nautical School was established in 1929, when California State Assembly Bill No. 253 was signed into law by Governor C. C. Young. The bill authorized the creation of the school, the appointment of a Board of Governors to manage the school and the acquisition of a training vessel. The school's mission was "to give practical and theoretical instruction in navigation, seamanship, steam engines, gas engines, and electricity in order to prepare young men to serve as officers in the American Merchant Marine." By 1930, a training vessel and a school site was acquired; the original location of what would become California Maritime Academy was California City (now Tiburon, California) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Due to the Great Depression, the early days of the Academy were full of financial uncertainty. As early as 1933, some state legislators were calling for the school's abolition. In order to save money, the cadets and instructors alike lived and held classes aboard the training vessel, the T.S. California State. Only after the passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 did the funding for the Academy stabilize.

TS Golden Bear after it was hauled out and painted a navy blue.

In 1939 the California Nautical School adopted the name, the California Maritime Academy. By 1940, the Academy was granting Bachelor of Science degrees and Naval Reserve commissions to its graduates; this step marked the beginning of the transition from the status of trade school to college. In 1943, the Academy moved to its present location in Vallejo, California.

In the 1970s, after surviving another round of budget cuts and calls for the Academy's abolition, California Maritime Academy became a four-year institution. The 1970s also marked the time when the first minority and female cadets graduated from California Maritime Academy.

In 1996 California Maritime Academy became the twenty-second campus of the California State University system. The new affiliation improved the Academy's funding prospects considerably. The current training vessel is the T.S. Golden Bear, and is the third training ship to carry that name.

In September 2015, President Cropper proposed a campus name change before the California State University Board of Trustees from the California Maritime Academy to California State University Maritime Academy. It was approved.^[8]

Superintendents and presidents

A rear admiral's flag.

Since the passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, the position of President of the California Maritime Academy is commissioned as a Rear Admiral (Upper Half) in the United States Maritime Service. Two past Presidents are alumni of the Academy itself.

From	To	Name	Rank	Notes
May 11, 1930	February 14, 1934	Emil Topp	LCDR, USN (ret)
February 15, 1934	June 30, 1937	Dr. Richard C. Dwyer		See Note 1
July 1, 1937	June 30, 1940	Neil E. Nichols	CAPT, USN (ret)
July 1, 1940	October 31, 1947	Claude B. Mayo	CAPT, USN (ret)	See Note 2
November 1, 1947	February 15, 1955	Russel M. Ihreg	COMMO, USN (ret)
February 16, 1955	June 20, 1955	Carroll T. Bonney	CAPT, USN (ret)	Acting Superintendent
June 21, 1955	November 1, 1965	Henry E. Richter	CAPT, USN (ret)
October 15, 1965	October 1, 1971	Francis T. Williamson	RADM, USN (ret)
October 1, 1971	August 1, 1972	Edwin C. Miller	CDR, USN (ret)	'34-D CMA, Interim See Note 3,
August 2, 1972	November 11, 1983	Joseph P. Rizza	RADM, USMS	CAPT, USN (ret), See Note 4
November 11, 1983	August 31, 1990	John J. Ekelund	RADM, USMS	RADM, USN (ret)
August 31, 1990	June 30, 1996	Dr. Mary E. Lyons	RADM, USMS	CDR, USNR
July 1, 1996	June 30, 2001	Jerry A. Aspland	RADM, USMS	'62-D CMA
July 1, 2001	June 30, 2012	Dr. William B. Eisenhardt	RADM, USMS^[9]	Unk, USN
July 1, 2012	Present	Thomas A. Cropper	RADM, USMS^[10]	RDML, USN (ret)

R.C.Dwyer replaced by N.E. Nichols due to Navy requirements for regular Navy officers to be in charge of Navy-owned ships.
Early WWII – Superintendent and Master became separate positions.
Edwin C. Miller appointed Interim Superintendent October 1971 – July 1972.
On February 27, 1975, the title of "Superintendent" was changed to "President."

Training Ships

Main article: Golden Bear (ship)

From	To	Name	Former Name
1931	1946	T. S. California State/ T. S. Golden State	USS Henry County (IX-34)
1946	1971	T. S. Golden Bear	USS Mellena (AKA-32)
1971	1995	T. S. Golden Bear II	USS Crescent City (APA-21)
1996	Present	T. S. Golden Bear III	USNS Maury (T-AGS 39)

Academics

*Demographics of student body*
	Undergraduate
African American	3.3%
Asian American	11.6%
White American	46.1%
Hispanic American	7.5%
Native American	1.1%
Ethnicity unreported/unknown	30.4%

Degree programs

Cal Maritime offers one graduate and six undergraduate degrees, all of which are tied to a nautical curriculum. The degrees offered are as follows:

Graduate

The graduate program is a course of study in business and management fundamentals combined with specialized preparation for career advancement in Engineering, Transportation, or Humanitarian Disaster Management. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

Transportation & Engineering Management (M.S.)^[11]

Undergraduate

Majors

ABS School of Maritime Policy and Management

The Business Administration program is accredited by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE)

Global Studies and Maritime Affairs (B.A.)^[12]
International Business and Logistics (B.S.)^[13]

Department of Marine Transportation

Marine Transportation (B.S.)^[14]

Department of Engineering Technology

The Engineering Technology programs are accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET

Marine Engineering Technology (B.S.)^[15]
Facilities Engineering Technology (B.S.)^[16]

Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET

Mechanical Engineering (B.S.)^[17]

Minors

Business
Marine Science
Global Studies
Law
Naval Science
Power Generation (Mechanical Engineering majors only)

Rankings

Money magazine ranked California Maritime Academy 82nd in the country for value out of 736 schools it evaluated for its 2015-2016 Best Colleges ranking.^[18]

In 2015 Forbes ranked California Maritime Academy as the 516th best university in the nation and 96th in the West.^[19]

The 2016 U.S. News & World Report college rankings lists California Maritime Academy as 8th in the category "Regional Colleges (West)".^[20]

Corps of Cadets

Main article: California Maritime Academy Corps of Cadets

California Maritime Academy is the United States' only maritime academy on the West Coast. It is also the only university on the West Coast that requires all undergraduate students to participate in the Corps of Cadets. The only similar program on the West Coast is at the junior college New Mexico Military Institute. Since Maritime Academies comply with Title 46 Part 310 of the Code of Federal Regulations students are referred to as Cadets, required to wear uniforms, and utilize a demerit-based disciplinary system. Participation in Navy Reserve Merchant Marine training program is no longer required, but Cadets still utilize Merchant Marine Navy-style uniforms, customs, and traditions. Based on academic majors cadets are organized into Squads, Sections, Divisions and Companies which regularly muster in Morning Formations multiple times a week, as well as stand watches on campus and aboard the training ship.^[21]

Military options

There is no armed service obligation attached to graduation from the California Maritime Academy. However, financial aid and additional career opportunities exist for those students who choose to participate in any of the several military programs available on the CMA campus:

Coast Guard – Auxiliary University Program, Maritime Academy Graduate Program^[22]
Navy / Merchant Marine – Strategic Sealift Officer Program^[23]
Navy – Reserve Officer Training Corps^[24]
Marine Corps – Reserve Officer Training Corps^[24]
Air Force - Reserve Officer Training Corps^[25]

Athletics

The Keelhauler Logo

Athletics teams at California Maritime Academy are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the California Pacific Conference (CalPac). Men's sports include basketball, crew, cross country, golf, rugby, sailing, soccer and water polo; while women's sports include basketball, crew, cross country, sailing, and water polo. The name of the intercollegiate athletic program is "Keelhaulers". The women's sports teams are informally known as "Sea Hags".

The Keelhauler mascot was chosen as Cal Maritime’s athletic mascot by cadets in 1974, the name taken from a form of corporal punishment that was formerly used in the Dutch and English navies. Keelhauling involved tying the hands of a crewmember to a rope and hauling him under the keel of the ship. While the practice of Keelhauling was formally abolished in 1853, the Keelhauler lives on as the official mascot of Cal Maritime athletics.

Cal Maritime has a long history of athletic activities. Before it joined regular intercollegiate athletics, sports teams from Cal Maritime usually played military teams from local bases. In the 1970s, Cal Maritime began to organize its sports under intercollegiate guidelines, and the student body chose the "Keelhauler" as the Academy's mascot. Until then, the Academy's teams were known as the Seawolves. During the 2004–2005 academic year, the women's basketball team was formed and now also competes in the CalPac.

Cal Maritime's rugby program was started in 1998 and gained varsity status in 2001. Rugby was at one time the school's most successful sport, going undefeated against Division 2 opponents in home matches from 2007-2010.^[26] Cal Maritime's rugby team has been nationally ranked in college rugby, won the Pacific Coast League's Western Division Championship in 2009 and 2010, and was the runner up in the 2012 championship of the National Small College Rugby Organization.

The Academy's sailing team captured the Kennedy Cup – the National Collegiate Sailing Championship – in the fall of 2009. That victory earned it the right to serve as the U.S. representative in the annual Student World Yachting Cup championships in October 2010 in La Rochelle, France, where it placed 5th of 14.

In 2012, the Varsity 4+ of the men's crew team took first place in its event at the Head of the American Regatta. It beat teams from UC Davis, UC Berkeley Lightweight, Sacramento State, CSU Long Beach, Humboldt, Saint Mary's College, Sonoma State, and University of the Pacific. At the 2013 WIRA championships, the men's pair placed 2nd out of 16, while the men's novice 4+ placed 6th out of 19.^[27] Also in 2012, California Maritime Academy added a Men's Cross Country Team that finished 5th out of 8 teams in the Cal Pac Conference.

In 2014, the California Maritime Academy added a women's water polo team.

Notes

↑ Vallejo Campus Tour
↑ As of June 30, 2015. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2014 to FY 2015" (PDF). National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute. 2016.
1 2 3 Monica Malhotra. "Total Enrollment by Sex and Student Level, Fall 2015 Profile". calstate.edu. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
↑ "California Maritime Academy Officially Renamed as California State University Maritime Academy". California State University Maritime Academy. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
↑ "CAL MARITIME - CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY AT VALLEJO - MERCHANT MARINE, TRANSPORT & ENGINEERING PROGRAMS". Retrieved December 26, 2014.
↑ "Search CSU Degrees". Degrees.calstate.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
↑ http://degrees.calstate.edu/uploads/55/64/5564d4b6ec1584227ca2d1054c759f0f/Credential-Programs-08212012.pdf
↑ "CSUM | Support » New Name". www.csum.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
↑ Douglas Peterson. (2004). A Brief History: The California Maritime Academy Historical Archives. Retrieved July 29, 2014, from https://www.csum.edu/web/about/history
↑ Cal Maritime Administration (accessed July 17, 2012)
↑ California Maritime Academy. "MS Transportation & Engineering management". California Maritime Academy. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ California Maritime Academy. "Business Arts – Global Studies & Maritime Affairs". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ California Maritime Academy. "Business Administration – International Business and Logistics". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ California Maritime Academy. "Maritime Transportation". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ California Maritime Academy. "Marine Engineering Technology". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ California Maritime Academy. "Facilities Engineering Technology". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ California Maritime Academy. "Mechanical Engineering". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ "Money's Best Colleges". Money. 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
↑ "America's Best Colleges". Forbes. July 29, 2015.
↑ "Best Colleges 2013". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
↑ "CSUM". Retrieved December 26, 2014.
↑ California Maritime Academy. "California Maritime Academy Pre-Commissioning Program". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ California Maritime Academy. "Strategic Sealift Officers Program". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
1 2 California Maritime Academy. "Navy ROTC". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
↑ "CSUM". Retrieved December 26, 2014.
↑ Cal Maritime, Cal Maritime's Highly Successful Rugby Coach Announces Departure, August 25, 2010, http://www.csum.edu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=1a48d66d-7506-4e55-aec4-88776bcd4a14&groupId=61902
↑ "Collegiate Men & Women: WIRA Championships - complete results". Row2k.com. 2013-04-28. Retrieved 2014-08-18.

External links

California Maritime Academy

Training vessels	TS Golden Bear USS Henry County USS Mellena USS Crescent City

Student body	California Maritime Academy Corps of Cadets

The California State University

Campuses	Bakersfield Channel Islands Chico Dominguez Hills East Bay Fresno Fullerton Humboldt Long Beach Los Angeles Maritime Monterey Bay Northridge Pomona Sacramento San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco San Jose San Luis Obispo San Marcos Sonoma Stanislaus

Research and academics	Academics Engineering Research Institutes, Centers, and Laboratories Coastal and Marine Institute Laboratory (CMIL) Desert Studies Center Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) Southern California Marine Institute Research Vessels R.V. Coral Sea (Humboldt) R.V. John H. Martin (MLML) R.V. Point Sur (MLML) R.V. Sheila B. (MLML) Observatories Murillo Family Observatory Mount Laguna Observatory

Training Vessels	T.S. Golden Bear

History	California State Normal School San Diego

Related	California State University Police Department

Vox Veritas Vita

Maritime Academies in the United States

Federal	United States Merchant Marine Academy

State	California Maritime Academy Great Lakes Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy State University of New York Maritime College Texas Maritime Academy

Colleges and universities in California

Private	Alliant International University American Heritage University of Southern California American Jewish University Antioch University Apollos University Argosy University Azusa Pacific University Berean Bible College Bethany University Biola University California Baptist University California Christian College California Coast University California College San Diego (CCSD) California Institute of Integral Studies California Institute of Technology International Technological University California Lutheran University California Miramar University California South Bay University California University of Management and Technology Chapman University Claremont Colleges Cogswell College Concordia University Irvine Dominican University of California Fresno Pacific University Golden Gate University Herguan University Holy Names University Hope International University Humphreys College Imago Dei College John F. Kennedy University John Paul the Great Catholic University La Sierra University Life Pacific College Lincoln University Loma Linda University Loyola Marymount University Master's College Menlo College Mills College Monterey Institute of International Studies Mount St. Mary's College National Hispanic University National University Northwestern Polytechnic University Notre Dame de Namur University Occidental College Pacific Oaks College Pacific Union College Pepperdine University Point Loma Nazarene University Saint Mary's College of California Samuel Merritt University San Joaquin Valley College San Luis Rey College Santa Clara University Silicon Valley University Simpson University Soka University of America Stanford University Thomas Aquinas College Trinity International University Touro University University of La Verne University of Northern California University of Redlands University of the Pacific University of San Diego University of San Francisco University of Southern California University of the West Vanguard University of Southern California Westmont College Whittier College William Jessup University Woodbury University

University of California	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Merced University of California, Riverside University of California, San Diego University of California, San Francisco University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz

California State University	California Maritime Academy California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo California State Polytechnic University, Pomona California State University, Bakersfield California State University, Channel Islands California State University, Chico California State University, Dominguez Hills California State University, East Bay California State University, Fresno California State University, Fullerton California State University, Long Beach California State University, Los Angeles California State University, Monterey Bay California State University, Northridge California State University, Sacramento California State University, San Bernardino California State University, San Marcos California State University, Stanislaus Humboldt State University San Diego State University San Francisco State University San Jose State University Sonoma State University

Defunct	Upland College

Complete list

California Pacific Conference

Benedictine University of Mesa Cal Maritime ERAU–Prescott La Sierra Marymount Pacific Union College Sierra Nevada College Simpson University Soka University of America UC Merced

College sports teams based in California

NCAA Division I	California Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Cal State Bakersfield Cal State Fullerton Cal State Northridge Fresno State Long Beach State Loyola Marymount Pacific Pepperdine Sacramento State Saint Mary's San Diego San Diego State San Francisco San Jose State Santa Clara Stanford UC Davis UC Irvine UC Riverside UC Santa Barbara UCLA USC

NCAA Division II	Academy of Art Azusa Pacific Cal Baptist Cal Poly Pomona Cal State Dominguez Hills Cal State East Bay Cal State Los Angeles Cal State Monterey Bay Cal State San Bernardino Cal State Stanislaus Chico State Dominican Holy Names Humboldt State Fresno Pacific Notre Dame de Namur Point Loma Nazarene San Francisco State Sonoma State UC San Diego

NCAA Division III	California Lutheran Kingsmen/Regals Caltech Beavers Chapman Panthers Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas La Verne Leopards Mills Cyclones Occidental Tigers Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens Redlands Bulldogs UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs Whittier Poets

NAIA Divisions I and II	Antelope Valley Pioneers Biola University Cal State San Marcos Maritime Concordia Hope La Sierra Marymount The Master's College Menlo College Pacific Union College San Diego Christian College UC Merced Vanguard Westmont Jessup

CCCAA	Alameda Cougars Allan Hancock Bulldogs American River Beavers Antelope Valley Maurauders Bakersfield Renegades Barstow Vikings

NCCAA Divisions I and II	Bethesda Fresno Pacific University Hope New Hope Christian College Point Loma Nazarene University Simpson University West Coast Baptist College

USCAA	Bristol University Providence Christian College

Coordinates: 38°4′10″N 122°13′47″W / 38.06944°N 122.22972°W / 38.06944; -122.22972

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