Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps: actions needed to better monitor diversity progress : report to congressional committees.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps--Personnel management--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps--Recruiting--Evaluation.

United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

Diversity in the workplace--United States.

Diversity in the workplace.

United States--Armed Forces--Minorities.

United States--Armed Forces--Women.

Armed Forces--Minorities.

Armed Forces--Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 70 pages) : color illustrations, color map

Other Title:

GAO-23-105857 Senior ROTC Diversity

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2023.

Summary:

The Senior ROTC program is DOD's largest source of military officers. It produced more than 94,000 officers since academic year 2011 from ROTC units in every U.S. state and many U.S. territories. As such, the program can make significant contributions to DOD's efforts to cultivate diversity. GAO, among other things, (1) describes ROTC-commissioned officer diversity trends for academic years 2011-2021, by race, ethnicity, and gender, and socioeconomic makeup; (2) describes whether ROTC unit racial, ethnic, and gender makeup aligned with school makeup; and (3) assesses the extent to which the military departments have evaluated and, as necessary, modified ROTC programs to better ensure they contribute to a diverse officer corps. GAO makes four recommendations including that the Army develop quantifiable diversity goals, DOD establish a consistent process to identify a comparison group, the military departments collect and analyze quantifiable diversity data in program evaluations, and the military departments evaluate both the performance and resources of ROTC programs.

Contents:

Background.

Population of ROTC-commissioned officers has become more diverse and increasingly from economically advantaged areas since academic year 2011.

ROTC units were distributed at 1,441 colleges and universities, but racial, ethnic, and gender makeup of ROTC units did not always align with overall school diversity.

Military departments have not fully evaluated ROTC units to help ensure they contribute to a diverse officer corps or to inform appropriate modification decisions.

Conclusions.

Recommendations for executive action.

Agency comments and our evaluation.

Appendices.

Notes:

"August 2023."

"GAO-23-105857."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover page (GAO, viewed August 29, 2023).

OCLC:

1395393232