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...conduct will be met, for its only clear control over the ROTC departments is its power to reject their programs entirely. ROTC Departments are neither purely Administrative Departments nor fully Academic Departments. The ROTC Departments do not have the privileges of recommending tenured Faculty appointments and recommending that academic credit toward a degree be granted for completion of ROTC courses. The extension of this privilege to an externally controlled body represents an undesirable delegation of the Harvard Faculty's autonomy; and, thus, the privilege should be withdrawn...
...Academic credit is Harvard's clearest indication that work is being done which is appropriate for application towards a liberal atrs degree. The ROTC programs clearly pursue military training goals rather than liberal education goals. Therefore, credit towards a liberal arts degree should not be granted for completion of work in the ROTC courses...
...discussion of the status of ROTC at Harvard reveals that many of the existing conditions are the result of the need to conform to certain minimum conditions required by Public Law. The HPC recommends that academic credit for ROTC courses be withdrawn as a first step in a long-term project of analysis, within the Harvard community, of issues involved in the existence of ROTC programs at Harvard. This report has not considered the main financial aspects of ROTC's status nor the political issues involved in ROTC's existence at Harvard. We have directed our attention to educational policy...
Until the last decade of the 52-year parntership ["of school and government"]--on no serious scale until the last two years--was there any sign of discontent on the side of the academic community. There weren't many academicians who thought that academic credit for the military skills taught on in ROTC had suddenly become different from the skills taught by other professionals--the doctors, lawyers, engineers and business men--and should not be allowable for credit...
Colonel Pell's statement does not, however, apply to Harvard College, which is solely a liberal arts institution. In a liberal arts college, it is inappropriate to grant credit towards a A.B. degree for completion of courses of a solely pre-professional nature. The HRPC does not try to define what consitutes a solely pre-professional course, nor do we attempt to define what constitutes appropriate rigor. Harvard normally seeks to make decisions in accordance with general guidelines rather than rigid definitions. The military training goal of the ROTC programs is a clear violation of the liberal arts norm...