Word: programing
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...cent increase in Army ROTC enrollment this year is primarily due to the University's new Army program, Lieut. Col. James T. Hennessy, professor of Military Science said yesterday. The number of students taking the beginning course has jumped from 43 to 66 since last year...
...program involves the first major change in AROTC policy in three years. It requires considerably less time, reducing the number of classes per week from three to one for the first two years. The weekly two hour drill period required last year, remains the same, however...
Still further changes in the AROTC program are in the planning stage now, Hennessy indicated. A proposal to add more College-taught courses to the curriculum and to decrease Army instruction will go before the Faculty sometime this year, he said...
...trend holds no terrors for the Navy and Air Force, which have relatively small officer requirements and prefer to fill them through voluntary programs. But it has ominous overtones for the Army, which counts on ROTC for 13,200 second lieutenants next year-about 90% of its new officers. If the switch from compulsory to volunteer ROTC becomes general, the Army will be lucky in the future to get 50% of the ROTC officers it needs. At Wisconsin's Madison campus, the shift to a voluntary program has cut freshman enrollment in Army ROTC by 66%. Best Army hope...
Kennedy also proposed increased Federal loans to needy students under the National Defense Education Act as well as through a new student loan insurance program, the Associated Press reported. At the same time he suggested "an adequate college housing program" and construction of technical and medical schools...