Not everyone graduates high school and goes straight to college. Imagine what it would be like to work, cook, clean, bathe kids, maintain a relationship with a spouse and then read two chapters from your physics text, write a two-page paper for English and pray to God that you get more than four hours of sleep that night. This is an example of a day in the life of a nontraditional student.
Nontraditional students are students who have other full-time responsibilities besides school.
Kirsteen Laidlaw is a nontraditional student pursuing her master's in social work. Laidlaw is assisting in developing a survey of nontraditional students that is intended to aid in improving services. The graduate students' surveys will be mailed out next week, and the surveys for undergraduates will be mailed out two weeks after that. All students should receive the surveys by Thanksgiving. The purpose of the survey is for the university to find out how we can improve the services we provide for nontraditional students.