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  • 18 January 2012 Wall Street Journal letter "Navy Working to Restore Relations With Elite Colleges" by Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Juan Garcia.  Note:  Garcia, the Pentagon's point man in negotiating the Naval ROTC deals with elite colleges, responds to a 30 December op-ed by writing that those deals "go well beyond the opening of an office. Both Columbia and Harvard agreed to permit access to classrooms, auditoriums, athletic facilities and outdoor fields for ROTC activities. Naval ROTC instructors will conduct office hours for both ROTC midshipmen and non-ROTC students, and the universities will now denote NROTC activities on student transcripts and in the course catalog."  Texts of those agreements have not been released.  Garcia noted that in the past 2 years the Navy opened "host units at Yale University, Arizona State University, the largest undergraduate population in the country, and at Rutgers University, a top-ranked engineering school".  He states that "NROTC is at 15 of the nation's top 25 universities", though that statistic includes colleges such as Harvard in which all classes are taught at cross-town programs. 
  • 17 January 2012 Yale Daily News article "Naval ROTC students face finaid choice".  Note:  "Naval administrators said in December that they expect the scholarship program — which is widely used on a national scale — to be less popular at Yale because of the University’s generous financial aid policy. But Lt. Molly Crabbe, who will oversee Yale’s Naval ROTC unit, said all but one of 24 prospective Yale students interested in the program have already applied for the scholarship option."
  • 13 January 2012 American Forces Press Service article "Developing Leaders is ‘Job One,’ Dempsey Tells ROTC Cadets".  Note:  "Faced with a dynamic between the two world wars that is similar to the Pentagon’s transitional situation today, Army Gen. George C. Marshall invested most heavily in leader development, Dempsey said.  “He knew that if he had the right leaders, once things clarified he’d call upon them to get it right, and that’s what we’ve got to do,” he added. “It’s about leader development. That’s the biggest lesson we’ve learned.”"
  • 30 December 2011 Wall Street Journal op-ed "How to Get More Ivy Leaguers Into ROTC" by Cheryl Miller and Jon Hillman.  Note:  Despite the publicity about elite universities welcoming ROTC, "for all the fanfare, Yale is the only university that will have cadets training on campus next fall".  Miller and Hillman suggest that the "military could partner with faculty and administrators to attract students and improve ROTC courses, even designing and co-teaching courses that meet both university standards and military requirements. A few such courses already exist—such as Yale's Grand Strategy program, taught by Paul Kennedy, John Lewis Gaddis, Charles Hill and others—and administrators should encourage more collaboration."  They suggest that elite colleges "need to recruit potential warrior-scholars, going head-to-head with the service academies and other elite schools that never discontinued their ROTC programs.... That will mean offering real incentives: financial aid supplements, room and board for cadets and so on."  See response on 18 January.

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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