A Naval Reserve Officer’s Training Corps unit will return to the University in the fall of 2012, ending ROTC’s over 40 year absence from Yale’s campus, according to a press release from the Office of Public Affairs and Communications.
University President Richard Levin will sign an agreement with U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus at 3 p.m. today. Per those terms, the unit will be based on Yale’s campus but enroll students from other students attending colleges and universities in Connecticut.
“The renewal of a formal relationship with Yale will serve to bring dozens of new and talented officers who will carry on Yale’s tradition of service into the Navy and Marine Corps each year,” Mabus said in the release. “The presence of NROTC will enrich and strengthen both the military and the educational experience of all students.”
During ROTC’s absence from campus, Yale students have participated in Army and Air Force ROTC programs at the University of New Haven and the University of Connecticut, respectively. But no such programs existed on campus for Yale students, and there was no option to join a Naval ROTC unit in the state of Connecticut.
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