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A Descriptive Study of Returning Student Services and Programs in Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities in the United States

Description: Since the end of World War II, the number of returning college students aged twenty-five years or older has increased so rapidly in American colleges and universities that college administrators, either through lack of interest and understanding or through failure to function as proactive change agents, have not kept pace with the needs of older student populations. In recent years, as enrollment among traditional younger students has declined, enrollment among mature returning students has gro… more
Date: August 1978
Creator: Casey, Ives June
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