Niagara University ROTC Receives MacArthur Award
Niagara University’s ROTC program was presented with the prestigious MacArthur Award this morning in recognition of its cadets’ performance during the 2012-2013 school year.
Only eight schools are chosen from among the 273 senior ROTC units nationwide for the MacArthur Award, which is based on a combination of the achievement of the school’s commissioning mission and its cadets’ performance and standing on the Cadet Command’s National Order of Merit List, and its cadet retention rate.
The Rev. James J. Maher, C.M., Niagara University president, accepted the award from Dr. Michael Anderson, deputy commander of the Second ROTC Brigade.
In congratulating the cadets, Father Maher said, “You signify the commitment to the discipline of excellence and that itself is an excellent Vincentian value and virtue that we need to build even more deeply into our university community. You’ve taken the core of the discipline of this program and you’ve applied it in life. That’s the essence of university and collegiate education, where we take knowledge, we learn, we grow and we apply it.”