Evening star., 1942-11-22
Wartime Prosperity
Helping Co||egians
Pay Own Expenses
Jobs Now Hunt Students
Instead Of Students
Begging for Jobs
BY the Associated Press.

Begging for Jobs
BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-Wartime
prosperity is making the financial
road to higher education easy to
travel for thousands of coliegians
whose academic schedules allow
them time to work at full or part
time jobs.
This was disclosed today in a
survey by the Associated Press of
the student employment situation
in ia OF the Nations institutions
of higher learning.
The survey. which included re-
ports from every section of the
United States. showed that stable
portions of the sagging student pop
ulatlon are working their way
through school. in whole or in part.
Figures on the work k-their-way-
throughs ranged all the way from
about 7 per cent for Washington
State College at Pullman, Wash.
to 85 per cent at New York Uni
versity.
The average of work students,
computed on the basis of specific
estimates submitted by 49 of the
reporting schools. was approx
mately 38 per cent.
Jobs Now Hunt Students.
, Jobs are so plentiful, at least in
many localities, that they are going
begging.
For the first time in history" :"
SAID a report from Oregon State
College at Corvallis, "jobs are now
hunting students instead of students
begging for more Jobs"
The trend in types of employment
has shifted from college sponsored
work to jobs in private Industry
records at the Illinois Institute of
Technology showed. Officials of the
institute estimated that at least so
per cent of the total regular day
school enrolment of approximat tely
2,200 are working for some part of
their expenses and that of these
only $50 work on the campus.
Jobs held by men ranged from
vital defense work to operating a
juvenile employment service which
furnishes students to take care of
children in the homes. Purdue Uni
versity at Lafayette, Ind, reported
that James Small, a pharmacy stu
dent who handles the agency, ac-
tually places more boys than he
does girls.
Among wide variety OF women's
jobs were these: Carpentry bv the
girls OF Baylor University at Waco,
Tex: carrying mail at the Univer-
sity OF Chicago, working in machine
shops at Lubbock, Tex, by co-eds
from Texas Neurological College
and-tor the first time in history
serving as mattresses at fashionable
Bryn Mawr College at Bryn Mawr
Pa
Fewer Working at Some Schools.
Despite the easy availability of
jobs, however, approximately a score
OF the schools of higher learning
reported declines in the number of
employed students compared with
year ago. Among reasons assigned
for the decreases were: The lack of
time to take jobs because of heavier
academic loads students are carry
ing under the wartime accelerated
educational program, more money
from the home folks and the fact
many students earned big salaries
in defense industries during the
summer.
President E. O. Holland OF the
Washington State College. which
was among schools reporting de-
clines in work students, made this
observation:
The percentage OF students work
ing while going to college is very
small this year Summer defense
jobs have provided many of them
with enough money to carry them
completely through the 1942-43 year
Parents are also employed and are
in position to help their sons and
daughters if necessary"
There's too much money around"
was the amazing comment of a
spokesman for the University of
Rochester. 80 many students had
good jobs last summer they aren't
the least bit interested in working
during the academic year"
Meanwhile the drop in college en-
rollments of regular students, which
began with operation of the selec-
tive service law, continued generally
throughout the country. Estimated
decreases as compared with a year
ago ranged from less than l per cent
to more than so per cent, and the
Office OF Education reported in
Washington that 80 colleges and
professional schools had been closed
or merged with other institutions
since last spring twenty-five OF
the 80 we're Junior colleges.
The Associated Press survey
showed that 95 OF the ia reporting
institutions had enrolment drops
New York University reported 21.6S5
enrolled this fall, compared with
27,326 a year ago, a drop of 2O.6
per cent, which was estimated by the
university's public relations depart
ment to be about average across
the country.
One school reported no change,
and only 18 Of the ia estimated en-
rOllment gains.