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The Army’s expansion effort stems from the Pentagon’s request for the officer-training corps to produce 4,500 second lieutenants each year, a 15-percent increase over its annual quota four years ago. That target will rise to 5,350 in 2011. This year, ROTC produced 4,300 lieutenants, more than in 2007 but still short of its quota.
That shortfall has the training corps looking for ways to produce more lieutenants, including adding 15 to 20 campus units to the 273 it already runs, according to Paul N. Kotakis, an Army spokesman. Naval ROTC, which includes the Marine Corps, is also looking to expand and has identified several universities where it may add programs.
“We’re all familiar with Hollywood’s idea of the Army: Pearl Harbor gets bombed, you go to basic training, then the next week you’re storming the beaches of Normandy,” said Mr. Kotakis. “But ROTC is fundamentally predicated on a four-year college experience. Whenever the Army gets an increased mission like that, we can’t turn the numbers around immediately.”

ROTC is still banned at Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Tufts, and Yale.