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India Company METL Assessment

20 April 2015

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Overall AssessmentLast Year This Year

Academic P P

Military U T

Moral-Ethical T P

Physical Fitness T P

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Academic Assessment

• Strengths– ESP used wisely/ enforced ESP standards– Encouraged company to use their resources– Academic incentives – Highest Battalion GPA last semester

• Weaknesses– Improve organization/accountability of academic tests for company

records– Class absences being checked by the cadets– Bottom 1/3 of GPA were upper-class cadets (too much focus on the

knobs)

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Academic Assessment

Cum GPA last year

Cum GPA this year

Class Absences last year

Class Absences this year

Number Academically Deficient last year

Number Academically Deficient this year

1C 3.151 (‘14) 3.282 (‘15) DNA 70 DNA 0

2C 3.153 (‘15) 3.366 (‘16) DNA 125 DNA 0

3C 3.174 (‘16) 2.932 (‘17) DNA 154 DNA 3

4C 2.767 (‘17) 2.830 (‘18) DNA 73 DNA 1

Total 3.045 3.065 DNA 422 DNA 4

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Academic Pillar Way Ahead

• Achieve a Company average GPA of 3.2 or higher

• 2 class absences or less per cadet• Get cadets to check their absence record

frequently

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Military Assessment• Strengths– Formation accountability – Parade performance– Inspection performance

• Weaknesses– Still getting used to the new all-in system– Cadets don’t check the weekend duty roster– Cadets still doing the wrong thing when no one is looking

(14 upper-class cadets left India Company (for discipline or honor violations), 10 of whom left school

– Too few cadets qualifying for Regimental Rank Boards

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Military AssessmentAvg parade results last year

Avg parade results this year

Class I Offenses last year

Class I Offenses this year

Suitability Boards last year

Suitability Boards this year

1C N/A N/A 1 3 0 0

2C N/A N/A 2 2 0 0

3C N/A N/A 2 7 0 0

4C N/A N/A 6 0 0 0

Total 11 8 11 12 0 0

- 4th Class Retention (data as of 31 March):- SY 12-13: 80.6% - SY 13-14: 69.0%- SY 14-15: 83.8%

Upper-Class Retention: 83% - 2 Honor Violations - 6 Hazing/4th Class Majors - 1Alcohol Related - 1 Theft - Total: 10

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Military Pillar Way Ahead

• Win the Commandant’s Cup• Have minimum of 5 cadets qualify for

Regimental rank boards• Have outstanding personal appearance at all

times• Have stricter formation discipline

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Moral-Ethical Assessment• Strengths– Support of religious activities– Support of leadership day activities– Increased interest in the honor system throughout the

company• Weaknesses– Put more effort into following the rules (upperclass)– Peer leadership (Correcting friends)– The “snitch” culture needs to go away

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Moral-Ethical AssessmentNumber of honor accusations this year

Number of honor accusations last year

Number of “in violation” honor findings last year

Number of “in violation” honor findings this year

Number of sexual harassment/assault incident reports last year

Number of sexual harassment/assault incident reports this year

1C 0 0 0 0 DNA 0

2C 4 0 0 2 DNA 0

3C 0 0 0 0 DNA 1*

4C 0 0 0 0 DNA 1*

Total 4 0 0 2 DNA 2*

* Not substantiated

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Moral-Ethical Pillar Way Ahead

• No class 1 violations• No hazing violations• No alcohol/drug violations• No 4th Class violations (major or minor)

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Physical Effectiveness Assessment• Strengths

– Intramural participation has increased– Fewer PT failures– Fewer height/weight failures– Ranked # 10 in Corps for Spring 2015 CPFT

• Weaknesses– Physically deficient cadets are still ordering out bad food– Too few incentives for PT success– Physically deficient cadets are not doing more PT outside of

regimental PT or remedial PT

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Physical Effectiveness Assessment

CPFT avg last year

CPFT avg this year

Number of CPFT failures last year

Number of CPFT failures this year

Number of H & W failures last year

Number of H & W failures this year

1C 254.47* 241.94* 3 3 1 2

2C 251.99* 249.39* 2 1 0 0

3C 247.00* 252.01* 0 2 0 2

4C 245.72* 261.73* 1 2 0 2

Total 251.20 249.33 6 8 1 6

* Corps wide class averages

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Physical Effectiveness Pillar Way Ahead

• Have the top PT scores in the Corps of Cadets• No PFT or HT/WT failures• Influence and help deficient cadets to conduct

individual PT (outside of Regimental PT and Remedial PT)

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Company Commander Comments• Largest Challenges:

Individuals still don’t want to follow the rules Cadets not keeping MRI standards towards end of the year regardless of being told

repeatedly Having strict of formation discipline throughout the company

• Largest Successes: Being able to change the anti-female culture Being able to place top 5 in multiple parades Being able to initiate the end to the “snitch” culture

• Largest Frustrations (by class): 4C: Didn’t get the class to grasp the concept to come forward about hazing when it

occurred 3C: Wasn’t able to prevent hazing/ alcohol violations 2C: Wasn’t able to get the class to police each other/ hold each other to standards 1C: Not being able to get all my classmates to participate at ring day/ graduation due to

HT/WT failures and PFT failures