Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1973 [PAGE 12]

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Mn^TAKV TRAIN INC, required of all able men students since the University opened in 1868, Kv.uno voluntary m September, 1964. Students may join Army, Navy or Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Armv RP IV. The University of Illinois Corps of Cadets has been in continuous exist ice since ISoS. A four-year course of general military science instruction leading to nission as a U.S. Army Reserve Officer or Regular Officer is offered at both a co I -ana-Champaign and Chicago Circle. A two-year program leading to a commission is available to selected students who may apply with two years remaining at the University. Two-year program students and four-year program students enrolled in the advanced course receive $100 a month subsistence pay. Four-, three-, two- and one-year scholarships are offered to selected students and provide for payment of tuition, fees, books and 100 a month subsistence pay. Professor of military science is Colonel Thomas R. Woodley Associate professor of military science at Chicago Circle is Lieutenant Colonel Windle J. ark. Air Force ROTC started as a separate unit in 1949. Qualified students (male and female) may take either a two-year or four-year training program which will qualify them for a commission in the Air Force Reserve and give them the opportunity to enter pilot or navigator training (except female students) or to enter an Air Force career field based on their academic training. Qualified students are eligible to be selected for a four-, three-, or two-year AFROTC college scholarship of free tuition, fees, books, and $100 a month tax-exempt subsistence payment. During their last two years of the program all students receive the $100 a month tax-exempt subsistence payment. The unit is Detachment 190, Air Force ROTC, under the Air University command. The professor of aerospace studies is Colonel Joseph J. DeJonghe. Naval ROTC, established at Illinois in 1945, offers several programs leading to a commission in the Navy or Marine Corps. The Scholarship Program, through annual nationwide competition, provides selected students (male and female) with tuition, fees, books and $100 per month for four academic years. Scholarship students serve four years on active duty following commissioning as Ensign, U.S. Navy or Second Lieutenant, U. S. Marine Corps. The College Program selects students already admitted, or planning to be admitted, to the University. College Program students receive $100 per month during the last two years of college and serve three years on active duty after commissioning in the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve. The NROTC Two-Year Program substitutes a summer training program for the first two years of the College Program and provides the same benefits. Students in the latter two programs are eligible for nomination to the Scholarship Program by Captain Christopher Withers, professor of naval science. SURVEY RESEARCH LABORATORY, University-wide unit established in 1964, provides training and instruction in survey methods; plans, conducts and processes surveys for research projects; assists agencies in using survey methods to solve problems of social and public policy, and conducts and promotes research in survey methodology. Its Social Science Data Archive serves as a Census data processing center and has developed a summary data storage and retrieval system on Illinois, Indiana and Iowa as well as the county groups of the Public Use Sample for the entire Midwest. An interdisciplinary executive committee appointed from the University's three campuses advises the Laboratory on policy and long-range planning. Director is Robert Ferber. UNIVERSITY BUREAU OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH supports University-wide planning and resource allocation activities, primarily through a series of analytical studies and the coordination of historical planning data. Director is Gustav J. Froehlich. Associated offices of administrative studies on each campus collect and analyze data relative to faculty and staff activities, department teaching loads, program costs and other aspects of campus operation. Director at Chicago Circle is Carlton M. Berg. Director at the Meduul Center, Chicago, is Larry L. Phemister. Director at Urbana- Champaign is John E. r*rwillii;or.

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