If people are not getting the kind of jobs, the kind of pay raise they want, then they go back and retool. But during this economy, where unemployment is so low, the adult education market has continued to go up and up and up. So the conventional wisdom, or what used to be the case, is no longer the case. We are part of USDA, but we're entirely self-supporting. Even though we're government employees in the larger sense, we're not in the civil service system.
Tuition pays for everything.
It began after 1921. Basically, the director of scientific work was losing research scientists to private industry and was looking for something to try and capture them and keep the learning going. So he was interested in adult education and talked to colleges and universities. But they said, no, you get our doctorate, you're done. That's the way it started.