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Expanding the Geographic Footprint of Army JROTC: An Analysis of Instructor and School Perspectives, Site Sustainability, and the Instructor Pipeline
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zaber, Melanie A.
- Language:
- English
- Other Title:
- Expanding the Geographic Footprint of Army JROTC
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2024
- Summary:
- The Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) is a citizenship and leadership educational program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in more than 3,000 secondary schools across the United States and around the world. Cadets who join JROTC take classes taught by former service members in addition to their regular studies and participate in out-of-school-time activities similar to a club or sport. The U.S. Army operates about one-half of all JROTC units and has units in all 50 states, several U.S. territories, and around the world. Like the other services, the Army's JROTC units are disproportionately located in the South, in urban areas, and in larger schools; this has been noted in congressional legislation and in a recent Army memo focused on modernizing the JROTC program. Changing this distribution is challenging, however, because of historical geographic patterns, funding constraints, and the need for schools and districts to apply to host a JROTC unit. The Assistant Secretary of the Army, Manpower & Reserve Affairs asked RAND Arroyo Center to inform the Army about where it might locate new, sustainable sites and how to grow the program's instructor cadre. The research team used a mixed-methods approach: a review of literature on JROTC, post-service careers, and teacher pathways; analysis of public data on school and community characteristics in conjunction with service data on JROTC site locations; analysis of instructors' prior Army careers compared with non-instructor careers; and use of counterfactual simulations to understand potential implications of recent proposed or passed legislation.
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