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§ 9435. Dean of the Faculty
(a) The Dean of the Faculty is responsible to the Superintendent for developing and sustaining the curriculum and overseeing the faculty of the Academy. The qualifications, selection procedures, training, pay grade, and retention of the Dean shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force, except that a person may not be appointed or assigned as Dean unless that person holds the highest academic degree in that person’s academic field. If a person appointed as the Dean is not an officer on active duty, the person shall be appointed as a member of the Senior Executive Service.
(b) The retirement age of an officer appointed as Dean of the Faculty is that of a permanent professor of the Academy.
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 562, § 9335; Pub. L. 85–861, § 33(a)(46)(A), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1567; Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title V, § 508(c), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3867; Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title V, § 521(b), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2409; Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, § 533(b), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 605; Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title V, § 529(a), (b), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1471; Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title V, § 542, Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1904; Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title V, § 502(qq), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2106; Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title V, § 507(b), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1375; renumbered § 9435, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 806(a)(3), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1832.)