NAVAL ROTC UPDATE to SENIOR MILITARY COLLEGES Mr. Mark Gough Deputy Director of Officer Development February 2016
NROTC Program by the Numbers Founded in 1926 6 Units Current Program Footprint 63 NROTC commands, each with an O-6 (Navy or Marine) Commanding Officer - 12 of those commands are Consortia Command with more than one NROTC Unit Current University Footprint Midshipmen Enrollments 4308 Scholarship Midshipmen 1826 College Program Midshipmen Active Duty Enlisted Enrollments 129 STA-21 (Seaman to Admiral 21) 205 MECEP (Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program) Recent NROTC Expansion As of Feb ruar y 201 6 166 Colleges/Universities 77 Host Universities with NROTC Units 89 Cross-Towns 5 Maritime Schools Current Staff Presence NROTC Units: 432 Officers (Navy/Marine) 81 Enlisted (Navy/Marine) 167 Civilians Officer Development Staff: 16 Officers (Navy/Marine) 22 Civilians Brown (crosstown with Holy Cross) Marylan d Consorti um -UMCP -UMBC 2
Program Updates Active Enlisted Service As of 3 Nov, 2015, navy option scholarship students who DOR (Drop on Request) from the program within 12 months of expected commissioning date may be assigned Active Enlisted Service (AES) Each disenrollment evaluated on a case-by-case basis Always a legal option (i.e. part of contract) but excluded by SECNAV policy since 2005 Marines not currently planning to use AES New policy was approved by ASN and CNO in 2015: Put into place to: Shape student decision timeframe Reduce corporate raiding AES can be deferred until graduation for those students still enrolled in school and on track to graduate 3
Program Updates Alternative Scholarship Restructure Precision: X in for X out. Reduces budget requirements for the NROTC Program Offering fewer initial scholarships leads to higher quality students and using 3 and 2 year sideload scholarships as necessary to meet production goals. Robust College Program is a must for success. Begins with Fall 2016 Freshman Class Benefits: All scholarship students receive full tuition and fees, book stipend, and monthly subsistence stipend All advanced standing students receive $350-400 monthly subsistence stipend 4
Program Updates Minimum GPA We are considering establishing higher GPA minimums to retain a scholarship. Current guidelines are 2.50 semester GPA and 2.00 cumulative GPA Considering 2.50 semester AND cumulative somewhere above 2.00 Not currently being implemented: Still being evaluated as a potential measure in the future. Coupled with Precision Loading may require a deeper College Program bench than we have to meet production goals: Still building bench Potential Benefits: Should open up scholarship opportunities for high performing College Program students. Reduces the delta between minimum semester GPA requirement (2.50) and cumulative GPA commissioning requirement (2.00) Removes marginal performers who can t qualify for Nuclear Power 5
Senior Military Colleges Mid Year Enrollments Scholarship College Program Total The Citadel 73 41 114 Norwich 75 30 105 Texas A&M 116 320 436 VMI 97 266 363 VPI 147 108 255 As of 01 Feb 6
Average SAT Scores Reflects all scholarship students that were assigned to your unit (regardless of whether they enrolled) Assignments are a factor of student desires and school availability 1400 Navy Scholarship Selects 1400 Marine Scholarship Selects 1300 1300 1200 1100 1383 1348 1357 1326 1334 1302 1355 1354 1322 1329 1283 1294 Programwide Citadel 1200 Texas A&M VMI Virgnia Tech Norwich 1100 1244 1196 1218 1189 1170 1136 1328 1304 1255 1177 1155 1174 1000 FY14 FY15 1000 FY14 FY15 7
Production (NROTC, STA-21, and MECEP) 850 638 425 778 751 756 764 820 840 796 712 213 0 308 310 311 238 247 180 173 186 159 194 203 200 148 9170 5966 4565 4546 FY11 FY13 FY15 FY17 Proj 263 4550 Navy NROTC Marine NROTC STA-21 MECEP 8 FY16 and out are projections based on a combination of current enrollments and goals
Senior Military Colleges NROTC Commissions (Navy and Marine) FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 (to date) Citadel 48 44 33 18 25 0 Norwich 38 34 34 22 24 0 TX A&M 38 35 16 24 40 12 VMI 52 37 45 53 46 2 VPI 31 37 35 29 35 4 9
Technical Majors Current production goal for Navy Commissions is 65% Technical Majors 90% 68% 65% 45% 23% 89% 89% 89% 74% 69% 78% 87% 79% 73% 72% 77% 71% 71% 63% 68% 63% 67% 67% Programwide Citadel Texas A&M VMI Virgnia Tech Norwich 0% FY13 FY14 FY15 % of Navy Option Commissions in a technical major 10
My Contact Info Name: Mr. Mark Gough Title: NROTC Program Manager / Deputy Director of Officer Development (OD) Email: mark.gough@navy.mil Phone: 850-452-4983 Fax: 850-452-4054 Address: STC OD 250 Dallas Street, STE A Building 628 Pensacola, FL 32508-5268 Assistant: Mr. (David) Lasure david.lasure@navy.mil 11