He later came to Colorado State University where he spent 43 years as either dean or professor of the range science department. Although Wasser never looked back on a career that might have been, he knows that the aspirations of some students are dashed due to today's financial needs. Very few students are able to secure a position with a B.S. degree. They need a masters and that takes a lot of money. Even if you started saving for your kids when they started kindergarten, there will be a debt either for the parents or more likely for the kids.
Scholarships can relieve some of that financial pressure.
And even when his sons graduated from college decades later tuition still was low enough for them to leave college without debt. But he said that no longer is the case when you consider tuition alone at CSU has increased 100 times what Wasser paid 60 years ago. To help today's students offset the rising cost of higher education, Wasser and friends have established the Clinton and Lillian Wasser Endowment Scholarship. Back then we expected that. But that's not the case anymore.