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Academy Report - March 2020

Posted April 23, 2020, 11:50 a.m. by Vice Admiral Daniel Lerner (Personnel Director, EGO) (Daniel Lerner)

Posted by Ray Branch in Academy Report - March 2020

Posted by Admiral Katherine Dedul (Academy Commandant / EGO) in Academy Report - March 2020

Posted by Russell Watt (Public Nuisance for Life) in Academy Report - March 2020
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FComm’s Comments: Overall the ship is doing extremely well. We’ve had quite a few new applications so I anticipate this trend will continue. Sarah and her crew appear to be handling things quite well though, I don’t see any issues to report with expending the number of allowable cadets per department to four currently.

Have we considered reopening the second Academy ship?

Adam W.

Everyone involved is keeping an eye on the situation. The intention at this time is to stay with one ship and, with careful tracking and roster management, we haven’t hit an issue yet where there are no spots available for a new application.

Sarah, VP

Sarah, Dan says the following in his March PDept Report, which seems to paint a different picture to what you’ve said here:

It is basically impossible to ensure cadets are given their first choice of departments now, even with the changes mentioned in my comments at the end of this report. This is due to there being very limited availability in the Academy now. Of the nine placed cadets, two cadets were given their second choice and one cadet was given their third choice. This will change in April once we start placing Academy requests into non-Academy ships due to limited availability.

(bolding of last sentence is mine)

Is that no longer the case?

Russell

We’re currently almost two-thirds through April and no one has been placed on a mainstream ship who requested the Academy.

Sarah

Oh that’s good.

Russell

As Sarah said, we continue to monitor the situation. However, it can be hard to gauge what’s going on as a lot of applications can likely be related to the pandemic (loads of people staying home in need of hobbies - nothing wrong with that of course) and if we do restart the Endy and things in the world go back to “normal”, we’ll be basically in the same boat we were when we chose to stop assigning cadets to the Endy a few months back.

We need a bit more data before we essentially freak out and restart another ship. We need to breathe and give it a bit more time before we essentially freak out and coordinate staff for an entire ship if this upward trend continues. I hope it does, but barely two months of data isn’t enough to verify that’s what’s going on, particularly with the extenuating circumstances.

-Kat

I would suggest adding a JO position to each department and increase the number a department can hold (again) over commissioning another ship if we were to see an influx.

-Ray

Speaking as a current DH on the Challenger, that would be insane :P. We are currently at approximately four cadets per department, many of whom are very active. We are pushing mentors to the limit in mentoring. And we are struggling to find a role for 16 cadets in a sim within 12-16 weeks.

Going up to 5 cadets per department is absolutely impossible.

Daniel


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