MADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison is shedding its long-standing anti-military image by hiring a military historian and teaching a new course for military officers.

The university also has improved services for veterans after hiring an assistant dean with a military background last year.

The school's anti-military image dates to the 1960s and '70s, when the university was a hotbed of Vietnam War protests. In 1970, four student radicals used a car bomb to destroy a building housing the Army Mathematics Research Center, killing a young scientist.

An online course this summer teachers the history of U.S. war and 20th-century diplomatic strategy to military officers. Retired Capt. Scott Mobley, a graduate assistant who commanded a Navy ship in the first days of the Iraq war in 2003, helped develop the course.