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Relationship to University clarified ROTC program Herbert outlines Editor's note: The following letter and \fact sheet\ was written by Col John J. Herbert Jr., professor of Aerospace Studies and head of the ROTC porgram at the Stale University of Buffalo. rejected one and approved two. If accepted, tfie nominee then attends an Academic Instructor Course for 240 hours of training in teaching methods and techniques. Only after he successfully completes this teacher training course, is a nominee assigned to the faculty of this University. Nomination letters to Dean' Welch from me as the department chairman, and replies from Dean Welch to me, which will verify this procedure, are on file in the Department of Aerospace Studies and may be reviewed by anyone who wishes to do so. outside readings, develop speech topics, writing assignments or projects, so long as they support the course goals. The way I see it, our course goals guide us the same way reguirements imposed by professional accrediting agencies law or medical licensing agencies guide those curricula here at UB., anyone. We used these course goals when we designed our UB curriculum. The specific curriculum content was determined by me and my instructors. When examined in light of the fact that we are faculty members in the Department and have been accepted by the Institution and serve at the pleasure of the president, our detailed development of what we teach in our UB Aeorspace Studies courses indicated that as faculty members of UB we control the development and composition of the UB AFROTC curriculum. I have become genuinely concerned about the recent complete misunderstanding which has been generated on this campus about AFROTC. It began with a letter published in the Gazette which contained several statements about AFROTC. These statements involved Q: How and by whom is the AFROTC curriculum monitored at SUNYAB? A: University College, SUNYAB, monitors the AFROTC curriculum through me, as Department Chairman, Aerospace Studies. Since I became chairman in July 1966, the dean. University College, and I and at least two curriculum committees have discussed course goals, content and methods used to teach the entire AFROTC curriculum. Discussions have been conducted in the Dean’s office and at meetings with committees held in Hayes Hall. Should the dean, on the advice of the curriculum committee, advise me to drop a text, change a seminar oriented course to a lecture course, I would do it. University College is the boss. As stated previously, the Department of Aerospace Studies is furnished course goals by the Air University. These course goals are posted on a curriculum board in room 302, Clark Gym and are open to review by the question of how ROTC faculty members were appointed at UB and questioned whether ROTC faculty were' “free agents” to vote their own personal convictions in the Faculty Senate. Other questions were raised in articles in The Spectrum and in one teach-in, tenure for ROTC faculty was a topic of discussion. The question of whether or not the University has had any control or say so about what we teach in ROTC has been raised many times. A headline in one issue of The Spectrum referred to second lieutenants in the Reserve as draft didgets because they had requested and had been granted educational delays to pursue graduate studies. At another teach-in, such questions as special facilities for the Department of Aerospace Studies and payment of bounties to UB by the Air Force for second lieutenants produced were raised. Some ROTC students have attempted to answer these questions at teach-ins. Some have succeeded. I myself found a group of students at a teach-in who seemed amazed to leam from a representative of University College that the ROTC faculty is selected by a University committee and that the curriculum has been reviewed by the Dean and by curriculum committees. On this or any other campus, answers to questions which have as their genesis the draft, the war in Vietnam or professional armies must be based on fact. To do otherwise at a university would be unthinkable. It is for that reason that I prepared the attached fact sheet. Please read it. It may answer the questions you now have about AFROTC at the State University of Buffalo. John J. Herbert Jr., Colonel, USAF Professor of Aerospace Studies Q: Are AFROTC faculty members “free agents” to vote as they see fit on any issue raised during Faculty Senate meetings? A: AFROTC faculty members, whose titles are not qualified, may participate and vote on Faculty Senate issues according to their own individual convictions. In the April 25, 1968 Faculty Senate meeting, an amendment to a resolution which would allow reinstatement of former students who had fled the U.S. to avoid serving in the military or been arrested or convicted of “draft” evasion was put to a vote on the Senate floor. Q; Do AFROTC faculty have tenure? A: No, AFROTC members are never granted tenure at SUNYAB or any other university hosting AFROTC. They normally teach at.a school for a period of three years. This period may be curtailed at a moments notice by the university for cause. Paragraph 3.c, of the agreement made between the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Secretary of the Air Force states: “It is mutually understood and agreed that no Air Force Officer will be assigned to the Department of Aerospace Studies without prior approval of the authorities of the Institution, and no Air Force member will be continued on assignment after the authorities have requested his relief.” The agreement between the University of Buffalo and the Air Force which states this arrangement was signed by Dr. Peter F. Regan, executive vice president, on 29 September 1967 and is on file in the office of the dean of University College and in the Department of Aerospace Studies. Anyone who wishes to verify this arrangement by reading that portion of the agreement may do so at the Department of Aerospace Studies, room 300, Clark Gym. Q: Does the Air Force pay a “bounty” to SUNYAB for each 2nd Lt produced through the ROTC program? A; No GO TO BELL! 3^^ What’s the last word in men’s / \ slacks? Flared leg pants, of Vi >. course! And h.i.s has them. \ They cling, way down. Then without warning, they flare out. \ * — They come in great new fashion I! fyy fabrics. At prices to be laughed / at... from only $6. Sound * / it out in a pair of Bell jj} / / Bottoms by... J / Q: How did the AFROTC curriculum at SUYNAB evolve? A: Although the agreement between the Secretary of the Air Force and the University states that the Secretary will prescribe the curriculum, the actual practice is as follows. Several years ago, the Secretary of the Air Force told the head of Air University (the Air Force’s “education” command), to establish course goals to guide the development of all AFROTC programs. ' Q: How are faculty members of the Aerospace Studies Department selected at SUNYAB? A: The Air Force forwards nomination folders which include college transcripts, service resumes and other data about prospective Aerospace Studies faculty to this or any other participating university or college where vacancies will occur. The University is fres to approve or disapprove a nominee for any reason. At SUNYAB, the University College Policy Committee reviews the qualifications of each nominee and, on the basis of its review, accepts or rejects him for appointment to the faculty of the Department of Aerospace Studies. Since I have been hare, University College has With the advice of a board of visitors made up of civilian educators, the head of Air University, continually reviews and establishes broad course goals for each AFROTC academic year. These course goals are published and sent to each particiapting University. How we at the University of Buffalo achieve these course goals is up to me, as department chairman, and the faculty member who teaches the course. The approach to and content of each course varies from university to university and from faculty member to faculty member because we do have academic freedom of action. Buffalo’s Largest Selection of Edwardian Clothing and Bell-Bottomed Slacks for Men! Each UB AFROTC faculty faculty member is free to design his own course, choose his own text books, specify his own Go to Florida in style! H.I.S. Bells and coordinated knit shirts — in the wildest colors! 3151 Bailey Ave. cor. Amherst \Bells For Guys and Gals” 832*1200 Page Eight The Spectrum
