This development is in line with the aims of former Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson. Rather, we intend the basic courses of the new curriculum be so designed that there will be no question of their being accorded academic credit on a par with other courses offered by the institution, and fully applicable in any of its degree programs. This mix of students provides for interesting and challenging classroom lectures. In fact, the editor of the student newspaper plus members of the Students for a Democratic Society sat in the same classroom with future Army officers. Because of their academic and military credentials, military officers at Loyola have also been requested to lecture in other departments.
Civilian professors reciprocate and lecture in military science classes.
To date, history and political science professors have lectured in the basic course while psychology professors have lectured in the junior classes and sociology professors in the senior classes. The PMS and his officers initiate and request, coordinate and plan. The PMS functions as a department chairman and the Military Science Department as a truly academic department. Last spring, Loyola's chapter of the Blue Key National Honor Fraternity so recognized Loyola's PMS by selecting him to receive their annual honorary award. In September 1968, one of the Track C officers was asked if he would give three lectures in the Free University.