Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

Navy Plans Merger

IN 1992
Navy Plans MIT-BU ROTC Merger

The Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps programs at MIT and BU are 
slated to be combined by the Secretary of the Navy as part of a program 
reflecting future budget reductions, the Navy has announced. The 
consolidation of the two programs is to be implemented by September 30, 
1992. 

Capt. Robert W. Sherer, commander of the Navy ROTC unit at MIT, said 
classes will continue to be held here for MIT students and for NROTC 
students from Harvard and Tufts. (The Wellesley-NROTC program is being 
terminated.) 

BU NROTC students will continue to have classes on that campus and so 
will students from Boston College and Northeastern who train with the BU 
group.

"We are considering coming together as a large consolidated unit for 
drills, alternating on the two hosts' campuses," Capt. Sherer said. 
Those discussions are just beginning, he said. MIT has informed him that 
final arrangements will have to be acceptable to MIT. Professor Margaret 
L.A. Mac Vicar, dean for undergraduate education, is the MIT official 
with responsibility for the ROTC programs.

The MIT-BU combination would be one of eight "geographic consortia" the 
Navy has proposed forming . The other pairings are UCLA and USC; 
Northwestern and Illinois Institute of Technology; Duke, University of 
North Carolina and North Carolina State; Georgia Tech and Morehouse; 
Villanova and University of Pennsylvania; Rice and Prairie View A&M; 
Memphis State and University of Mississippi.

The plan also includes closing units at five other schools in fiscal 
year 1996.