ACTA vice president of policy Michael Poliakoff’s remarks for the American Association of University Professors. Poliakoff calls on all university constituents to embrace ROTC as a student activity.
WASHINGTON, DC—”We praise the Yale Corporation for bridging the troubling chasm between the academy and the military,” Neal said. “By underscoring that defense of our liberties is an important form of public service, the trustees have exercised their fiduciary responsible to improve student life and learning. Now the trustees must work with faculty to ensure […]
WASHINGTON, DC—Following the announcement by the Stanford University Faculty Senate that it will create a committee to study the possibility of reestablishing a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni sent the letter below to the two professors who spearheaded the initiative, David M. Kennedy and William […]
Citing support from both major presidential candidates, a conservative alumni organization called for the return of the Reserve Officer Training Corps to Harvard and four other universities in letters to the schools’ governing boards last week. The letter, sent by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, quoted Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama endorsing ROTC […]
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has sent a letter to, among others, the Brown Corporation, urging it to consider reinstating the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program on campus. The letter was also sent to trustees at Columbia, Harvard and Yale as well as Stanford and Tufts universities and the University of Chicago, which […]
The Reserve Officer Training Corps’ four-decade exile from Harvard University campus ends Friday with an agreement that was spurred by a congressional vote allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus are scheduled to sign an agreement Friday that will establish the Naval ROTC’s formal […]
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