A rendering created by the Weber Murphy Fox architectural firm depicts a new University Police and U.S. Army ROTC facility at Slippery Rock University.

The Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Slippery Rock University is on its way to breaking a record for graduating seniors in 2025.

While recruitment for the program stalled in 2020 and 2021, Lt. Col. Jennifer Martin, military science department chairwoman and professor at SRU, said there are already 28 first-year students involved in ROTC this year. In 2020, a record of 30 students graduated from the program.

With the $850,000 grant the university received through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program to build a new facility for the program and university police, Martin said she thinks the ROTC will see an uptick in participation in the coming years.