The MacArthur Society held a Commanders Call with guest speaker Brig. General Mick Zais, PhD, US Army retired, USMA ’69, and who was recently named STARRS Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, as well as serving as a member of the MacArthur Society Board of Directors. Previously he served as a senior fellow at America First Policy Institute.
Gen. Zais served as the Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Education during the first Trump Administration, and before that, he was elected South Carolina’s 17th State Superintendent of Education. He has served as Commissioner of Higher Education in South Carolina for eight years, and for 10 years as president of Newberry College in that state.
Gen Zais retired as an infantry brigadier general after 31 years in the US Army, including service in Vietnam, Korea, Panama, and Kuwait. He is a paratrooper and Ranger and is a 1969 graduate of West Point.
Gen. Zais talked about accreditation for service academies and why it’s important to choose the right accrediting organization. Many college accreditation organizations are consumed with woke ideology and impose this agenda on the colleges they evaluate, including dictating what the curriculum and culture will be. However, recent laws have broken the monopoly of regional accreditors which means schools can now choose which organization they use.
Gen. Zais explained how important it is for service academies, especially West Point, to have an accreditation organization that focuses on basics rather than pushing a divisive, anti-American leftwing ideology.
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