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ROTC Coverage Added Recently

  • 16 May 2012 This Side of the Pond blog item "The “New” Politics of ROTC?" by Donald Downs and Ilia Murtazashvili.  Note:  The authors of "Arms and the University" discuss recent claims about the history of ROTC, noting "One claim that needs to be addressed first and foremost is the claim that academic standards comprised the main reason for ROTC’s exit from the Ivies and other schools in the late 1960s. We think this claim is historically wrong, and that perpetuating it threatens to distort the present debate." As perspective, they quote then Dean Carl V. Hovde of Columbia University who wrote about the history of ROTC at Columbia that "there is a difference between the reason why a particular issue is raised and the principles in accord with which the issue is resolved".
  • 7 May 2012 New York Times article "After War Room, Heading Ivy League Classroom".  Note:  "In the last year, Harvard, Yale and Columbia have invited R.O.T.C. back to campus after banning the program during Vietnam, citing the end of the military’s ban on openly gay troops as the reason. The hiring of retired military officers as teachers in the Ivy League is part of the same evolution... “There is almost no antimilitary bias among students,” said John Lewis Gaddis, a Yale history professor and the recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for biography, who has welcomed General McChrystal to Yale. “I wouldn’t say it’s true among the faculty.”"  Also, Ivy League colleges "still shy from teaching military history, although that is changing. (The Yale historian Paul Kennedy is developing a course on the military history of the West for undergraduates and Air Force R.O.T.C. students at Yale this fall.)"

Older material added recently:

  • 11 May 2011 Statement Before the Subcommittee on Personnel of the Senate Armed Services Committee by Juan M. Garcia, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), Vice Admiral Mark E. Furgusson III, Chief of Navy Personnel, and Lieutenant General Robert E. Milstead Jr., Deputy Commandant for Manpower & Reserve Affairs, United States Marine Corps.  Note:  The officials testify "we are expanding the number of ROTC units to ensure that the officer ranks are open to young men and women from all segments and all regions of the country. Our two newest host programs at Arizona State and Rutgers Universities reach geographic areas not previously covered, and are at large schools with recognized technical and engineering programs. At the same time, the anticipated repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is providing the opportunity to expand ROTC participation at various Ivy League schools...  The Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program has 60 units located at 73 host institutions with 86 cross-town institution agreements. Of the total 159 NROTC affiliated colleges and universities, 16 schools rank in the top 25 of U.S. News and World Report’s Best National Universities of 2011, including three Ivy League affiliations."

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