Definitely a lot going on there at CMA. Training ship officers dropping like flies at one point, offering faculty positions with no tenure possibilities, seeing the school one afternoon on NBC News with regard to sexual harassment/misconduct. List goes on. They’re definitely in a sad state right now.
What you wrote about tenure positions isn’t correct. We hired two tenure-track assistant professors in Marine Transportation last year and will hire two more in Fall 2023.
The two cadet deaths that happened during my time there (2001-2005) were both off campus and both due to drink - one cadet who took an early-morning dive trip without a buddy and without recovering from the booze the night before, the other in a truck on a Sacramento highway with beered-up “friends”.
There wasn’t a metric for cadet suicides. That there is now is rather scary.
Holy cow, we had zero from 95-00 when I did my time at Pelicatraz (yeah, I was on the “five year plan”). 2-3 a year is horrible, but seeing how the program has changed since I was there, I can believe it. If you can’t study because of stupid D&C BS to appease the College Station wannabe’s, you’re going to get overloaded with stress with the increase in STCW classes and in general.