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4EverPurple&Gold wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 4:14 pm
wow this is pretty crazy news... had a good amount of friends that were in the ROTC program when I was there.
I hate to say this, but is the end near for WIU??
No, this wasn't a WIU decision, this was a Army decision. Northern Iowa, Truman State, Cal Poly, and a handful of other schools lost theirs as well, and a lot of schools had their ROTC programs downgraded.
Despite the university's strong military heritage, we only had 44 students in ROTC and maybe only half of them actually came to Western specifically to do ROTC, so we're losing probably around 5-10 students per freshmen class because of it. It sucks, don't get me wrong, but this means very little to the overall health of the university.
