10 USC § 7432 - Departments and professors: titles

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title: "10 USC § 7432 - Departments and professors: titles"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "7432"
section_name: "Departments and professors: titles"
chapter_number: 753
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "TRAINING"
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last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 238, § 4332; renumbered § 7432, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)"
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# § 7432. Departments and professors: titles

**(a)** The Secretary of the Army may prescribe the titles of each of the departments of instruction and the professors of the Academy. However, the change of the title of a department or officer does not affect the status, rank, or eligibility for promotion or retirement of, or otherwise prejudice, a professor at the Academy.

**(b)** Upon becoming the senior professor in a department, a permanent professor thereby becomes the head of that department.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 238, § 4332; renumbered § 7432, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 4332(a)4332(b) | 10:1061a.10:1087 (proviso). | Dec. 14, 1942, ch. 729, 56 Stat. 1049.June 26, 1946, ch. 495, § 1 (proviso), 60 Stat. 312. |

In subsection (a), the words “now or after , established at” are omitted as surplusage. The word “precedence” is omitted as covered by the word “rank”. The words “pay, allowances” are omitted, since they are determined by the grade held. The words “from time to time”, “shall be known”, and “operate in any case or on any account” are omitted as surplusage.

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 7432 was renumbered .

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .