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including those of Arizona, show that out of every three in-coming
engineering students one will transfer to another academic area
before graduation, a second will drop out of college entirely, and
only the third will complete the requirements for a bachelor's
degree in engineering. Then he said, "Look at the person on your
left, the one on your right, and now at yourself. You must decide
which of these three students you will be!"
The returning veterans of World War II and the Korean Con-
flict formed successive waves of older, more mature students who,
along with wives and children, engulfed the American campus during
the 1940-50 era. As these students completed their studies, the
faces of the students remaining on the campus began to look more
like those of the pre-war years. However, the age composition of
the student body was again destined to change during the 1960's. As
the pressures of the Vietnam War and the threat of military service
impinged upon the nation's young men, many of them sought the
sanctuary of the draft-exempt status of "college student." Many of
these men, encouraged by the availability of federal grants and
research projects, continued their studies into the post-graduate
years. This combination of pressure and opportunity served to
lengthen the stay of many men on campus, and to raise the average
age of college students once more.
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Mahoney, Vernon Lloyd Mike. A Procedure for Evaluating Institutional Readiness for Non-Traditional Education, dissertation, August 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332147/m1/15/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .