Academy Visitors Board meeting in wake of sexual harassment, drug reports
February 3, 2011 Comments OffThe Air Force Academy Board of Visitors is meeting this weekend to review academics, morale, discipline and other matters. The visit comes in the wake of news that sexual harassment reports on the Academy are up 64 percent and that a number of cadets were found to be using synthetic cannabis. The board will meet [...]
Continue reading …Air Force Academy officials are investigating about two dozen cadets for using a drug called “spice.” Spice, a synthetic cannabis, is not illegal, but prohibited under an Air Force General Order prohibiting the use of intoxicating substances, which was issued in April. Since the order was issued, five cadets have left the Academy after they [...]
Continue reading …The Air Force Academy says more than $143 million in construction projects are under way at the school despite a 12 percent budget cut expected in the current fiscal year. The projects are funded by previous appropriations or outside contributions. They include a $35 million renovation of Vandenberg Hall, a dormitory. An indoor training center [...]
Continue reading …Reported sexual assaults at the three U.S. military academies rose 64 percent in the 2009-10 academic year compared with the previous year, the Defense Department said today. The largest year-over-year increase came from the Air Force Academy. Officials said the increase could reflect that more students are reporting assaults, rather than a jump in the [...]
Continue reading …Cadets at the Air Force Academy launched their latest cadet-built satellite from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska last week. It took four years to make the launch happen, and the cadets are responsible for designing, building, integrating, testing and repairing the satellite, said Col. Marty France, head of the department of astronautics at the [...]
Continue reading …A month after the release of a troubling survey that indicated widespread gender, racial, religious and sexual discrimination or harassment, the Air Force Academy has hired a chief diversity officer. The Academy has hired Diversity Officer Dr. Adis Maria Vila as chief diversity officer, a position that had been in the works for more than a [...]
Continue reading …A religion watchdog group has asked the Defense Department to investigate whether the Air Force Academy has given a Christian group improper access to the campus to proselytize cadets. Academy officials said they began looking into the claim when they first learned of it earlier this month and haven’t found any evidence to support it. [...]
Continue reading …The superintendent of the Air Force Academy is defending his decision not to release detailed results of the latest survey of cadets and staff. Lt. Gen. Michael Gould said Tuesday that a public debate on the results could be a “distraction” from the school’s mission to educate future Air Force officers. The academy said last [...]
Continue reading …Volunteers from the Air Force Academy are helping Colorado Springs maintain part of a walking and biking trail. Academy personnel are mowing, sweeping and collecting pet waste along two miles of the Woodmen Trail. Chief Master Sgt. Todd Salzman says it’s a way for the academy to show it’s part of the community, a goal [...]
Continue reading …The Air Force Academy Board of Visitors, which gives semiannual reports on the military academy to Congress and the Pentagon, will meet in Washington Thursday. The board reviews morale and discipline, academics, equipment and other matters. It has 15 members, including Democratic Rep. Jared Polis and Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn. Lt. Gen. Michael C. Gould, [...]
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