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NROTC and Columbia
Columbia University today announced it had agreed with the Navy Department to restore Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) as an option for Columbia students. The announcement comes after years of ACTA advocacy, and a recent University Senate vote in favor of engagement with the military.
Columbia's announcement notes:
Columbia's Navy and Marine Corps-option midshipmen will participate in Naval ROTC through the NROTC unit hosted at the SUNY Maritime College in Throgs Neck, Bronx. They will join Columbia's Army and Air Force ROTC members who will continue to train, as they do currently, with other New York area students at consortium units at Fordham University and Manhattan College. At present, there are nine Columbia and Barnard College students participating in these New York consortium units. The new agreement between the Navy and Columbia will provide that NROTC active duty Navy and Marine Corps officers will be able to meet with Columbia NROTC midshipmen on the Columbia campus in spaces furnished by Columbia.
The welcome of midshipmen in uniform on campus is a crucial one, but it remains to be seen how to what extent this really brings NROTC on campus and to what extent training will be off-campus, or even out-of-borough.
Still, ACTA applauds the announcement and encourages Brown, Stanford, and Yale to follow suit soon.
Posted by Michael Pomeranz on April 22, 2011 at April 22, 2011 05:18 PM
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