Pentagon: Colleges must hand over names
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/03/military_recruiters_schools_033108w/
{EXCERPT} , By Rick Maze - Staff writer Posted : Monday Mar 31, 2008
17:03:37
EDT
The Defense Department has announced a new get-tough policy with colleges
and
universities that interfere with the work of military recruiters and
Reserve
Officer Training Corps programs.
Under rules that will take effect April 28, defense officials said they
want the
exact same access to student directories that is provided to all other
prospective employers.
Students can opt out of having their information turned over to the
military
only if they opt out of having their information provided to all other
recruiters, but schools cannot have policies that exclude only the
military,
defense officials said in a March 28 notice of the new policy in the
Federal
Register.
The Defense Department “will honor only those student ‘opt-outs’ from the
disclosure of directory information that are even-handedly applied to all
prospective employers seeking information for recruiting purposes,” the
notice
says.
Directories are an im****tant recruiting tool because they include the
names,
birthdates, phone num
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