Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Representing the SFAC-HUC-HRPC resolution to deny ROTC academic credit, Kenneth M. Glazier '69 stressed the "impropriety" of ROTC's privileged status on campus. He pointed out that the SFAC resolution leaves open the option for ROTC to organize as an extra-curricular activity...
With regard to academic credit, the services are all known to be most anxious to retain academic credit as a mark of prestige and a matter of ultimate inducement in attracting young men to the ROTC program. All services are known to be most eager to "up-grade" their curricular to satisfy the demands for "college-level" subjects. All services have some flexibility in this regard and are anxious to work with host institutions in search of agreeable compromise ground. The ability to do this varies among the services, however, largely because the Army is wedded--for better...
Though the nature of the Harvard Faculty's control over these courses is unclear, a few comments can be made on curricular developments since World...
...practice, Harvard seems able to work well with the ROTC Units on an ad hoc basis and maintains ultimate power of approval or disapproval on course offerings and accreditation. Though the ROTC Units seem to have a great deal of freedom to work with Harvard on curricular matters, cooperation and a measure of freedom do not change the basic condition that Harvard has no assurance that its demands will always be met. It is our view that ultimately the ROTC Departments are the Defense Department, rather than true Harvard Academic or Administrative Departments...
...Harvard, along with other universities and now facing the ROTC issue, ought to take advantage of the opportunity to explore ways whereby the ROTC program can be improved (either as an extra-curricular activity or as one clearly under the supervision of civilians in the regular academic departments...