[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 32, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 32CFR67.5]



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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE

 

              CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

 

PART 67_EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT OF RESERVE COMPONENT 

OFFICERS TO A GRADE ABOVE FIRST LIEUTENANT OR LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE)

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Sec.  67.5  Responsibilities.



    (a) The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, under 

the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, shall:

    (1) Establish procedures by which an unaccredited educational 

institution can apply for DoD designation as a qualifying educational 

institution.

    (2) Publish in the Federal Register DoD requirements and procedures 

for an unaccredited educational institution to apply for designation as 

a qualifying education institution.

    (3) Annually, provide to the Secretaries of the Military Departments 

a list of those unaccredited educational institutions that have been 

approved by the Department of Defense as a qualifying educational 

institution. This list shall include the year or years for which 

unaccredited educational institutions are designed as qualifying 

educational institutions.

    (b) The Secretaries of the Military Departments shall establish 

procedures to ensure that after September 30, 1995, those Reserve 

component officers selected for appointment to a grade above First 

Lieutenant in the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, or Marine Corps 

Reserve, or Lieutenant (Junior Grade) in the Naval Reserve, or for 

officers to be federally recognized in a grade above First Lieutenant as 

a member of the Army National Guard or Air National Guard, who are 

required to hold a baccalaureate degree, were awarded a baccalaureate 

degree from a qualifying educational institution before appointment to 

the next higher grade. For a degree from an unaccredited educational 

institution



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that has been recognized as qualifying educational institution by the 

Department of Defense to satisfy the educational requirements of 10 

U.S.C. 12205, the degree must not have been awarded more than 8 years 

before the date the officer is to be appointed, or federally recognized, 

in the grade of Captain in the Army Reserve, Army National Guard, Air 

Force Reserve, Air National Guard, or Marine Corps Reserve, or in the 

grade of Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.