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ROTC Coverage Added Recently

  • 22 January 2010 Stanford Review article "Initiative to Increase Understanding of U.S. Military".  Note:  The Truman Service Initiative aims to educate college students who are likely to become leaders about the nation’s armed forces.  The initiative has programs at Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, the University of Chicago, and Yale.  One subject that came up during a "Military 101" lecture at Stanford was making it easier for students to do ROTC.  "Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service currently offers monetary support for car rentals to ROTC members, who need to drive to neighboring educational institutions to undergo training".
  • 9 January 2010 New York Times article "From Battlefield to Ivy League, on the G.I. Bill".  Note:  The article highlights how Columbia University "more than any other Ivy League institution has thrown out a welcome mat for returning servicemen and women. There are 210 veterans across the university, integrating a campus whose image-defining moment in the past half-century was of violent protests against the Vietnam War."  Columbia actively recruits veterans, and its School of General Studies "now counts 88 veterans with G.I. benefits among the 1,330 students" and the infusion of federal funding "is proving to be a bonanza for universities."  At Columbia, as the Yellow Ribbon Program ramps up, "Twenty to 25 more veterans are expected to arrive at the School of General Studies in the spring, and [School of General Studies] Dean Awn predicted that the overall number would grow “by 60 or 75 a year.”  Columbia has set aside $1.2 million for Yellow Ribbon students for the current academic year, while the government is expected to pay $5 million on behalf of veterans attending under the new G.I. Bill, not including the housing allowances."

Older material added recently:

  • September/October 2009 Columbia College Today article "Meet the New Dean".  Note:  Incoming Columbia College dean Michele Moody-Adams, when listing her achievements as vice provost for undergraduate education at Cornell, cited helping ROTC students feel part of the community, and stressed the value of the ROTC students being "exposed to a diversity of opinions in the community". 
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