Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1955 [PAGE 48]

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.1 tha 8tal Ln l at Urhana-champ* l ve 1< emlc J,008, nonacad^m! 2,211, t ; at v'hioa _ p : MB . unit . administrative 18, salaried i i1 T "^ non-salaried cTTnioal 5^0, nonaoad i I ,2C total 2,21 .i ^ rgr a \ uate Dlvl»l on , admlnl strati V< 16, a c 231j 79. t ' .1 526; at Oal ibu Und< "graduat Division, ad: srative ) i mlo 105> nonacadomic 2bl , total 39H; at :;jTFlr.;- 1'! ie Crippled Children, adminlstraTTv * 1, none ~T . a] 90; all units, administrative 148, aca ?mic 3,7^ r la led mod al >80. r^nacademic 4,06l, total University employes, . (of whom 7,968 are paid). . 3 or basic military training is re- (MILITARY TRAIN::: ) (ROTC) quired c all men students unit pecially i•empt i. As a land grant Institution, the University has had this req.ir n .t since it o\ ned in 1868. Since 19^9 the training has be n led n by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Instruction 3 provided in 11 units; air force, anti-aircraft artillery, armored .lry, army security, ^rps of engineers, field artillery, infantry . ordnance, quartermaster corps, signal corps, transportation corps, addltiv to the re aired two-year basic course, the ROTC offers t ) yea: of advanced work leading to a commission in the Organized Reserve, a I for outstanding graduates an opportunity for a commission . the F $ular Army. War vet rans with at least one year of rvice are e> * from required basic military training, but a considerable number have enrolled in the advanced courses. Total R.^TC enrollment, first semester of 1948-40, is 2, 28, with 2,23^ basic course cad ta and 294 advanc . course cadets. Enrolled in the ROTC at t\ 1 Uni\ rsity's pr -signal campus in Chicago are 69 medical and dental s* 1dents earning r - -eve commissions in the Army Medical Corps. The itary ri irtment of the university is the 5402nd Army Servi, Unit. ROTC Tctachment,J University of Illinois. Col. Harry A. Buckley is c ran ant. (It . in th Fifth Army Area commanded by Maj. -den. Ste hen J. Chamberlain, headquarters, Chicago.) Thu ! I Reserve Officers' Training Corps NAVAL TRAINING (M unit at the I Iversity of Illinois was esta led In 19^5- En: llment, first semester of 1948-49, is 1?*:. ine Corps option is provided in the junior and sei >r ye • N s ' are in two catagories: 1- "Contract students," who el< taV Navy ROTC Inst ad cV Army ROTO. Differing from Army | \ ie must take a Pull four years of training. They r el rve c La 3 3 in the Navy or Marir ps. 2- "Re ular stu ." who ar riled ' re . na- nv • examinations and Belt the tltutlon t w to att nd wh< their iucational expenJ a ar ild and they : •*iv* >00 a year. They are comm' j | th« regale ivy 3 at 1 tw ira af r >mm LonJ g, r* ' ill NROT^ student f H e w the same nav . : • • Unlvtr y. Ca t, Phtlll] 0.. ekes L c imandi i tr 1 ere Ellin s NROTC. (It is in the Ninth Naval Pi: -jnand- I hy R r-Adm. J. ( ry Jones, headquarters, Great Lak< 113