College Attendance: The Great Depression and Effects of the New Deal.
Category
Business, Education and Humanities
Department
History
Student Status
Undergraduate
Research Advisor
Dr. Kyle Thompson
Document Type
Event
Location
Student Center Ballroom
Start Date
10-4-2025 2:00 PM
End Date
10-4-2025 4:00 PM
Description
This article examines the effects of the Dust Bowl on college attendance amid the Great Depression. The objective is to track college attendance in the Midwest during The Great Depression and determine whether the various work and education programs introduced by President Franklin Roosevelt had a positive impact on continued collegiate enrollment. The "New Deal" enacted by F.D.R. brought the passage of banking reform laws, work and agricultural programs, and emergency relief programs. FDR's second part of the "New Deal" established new agencies to address the lack of economic opportunity, Official agencies like the Civilian Conservation Core, Works Progress Administration, and implementation of social security. These programs brought dramatic changes to the workforce and still attendance rates, following an initial dip after 1929, remained steady at Kansas State Teachers College. This study shows that economic depression and recession did not have an overwhelming effect on college attendance even during one of the greatest man-made agricultural disasters in modern history.
College Attendance: The Great Depression and Effects of the New Deal.
Student Center Ballroom
This article examines the effects of the Dust Bowl on college attendance amid the Great Depression. The objective is to track college attendance in the Midwest during The Great Depression and determine whether the various work and education programs introduced by President Franklin Roosevelt had a positive impact on continued collegiate enrollment. The "New Deal" enacted by F.D.R. brought the passage of banking reform laws, work and agricultural programs, and emergency relief programs. FDR's second part of the "New Deal" established new agencies to address the lack of economic opportunity, Official agencies like the Civilian Conservation Core, Works Progress Administration, and implementation of social security. These programs brought dramatic changes to the workforce and still attendance rates, following an initial dip after 1929, remained steady at Kansas State Teachers College. This study shows that economic depression and recession did not have an overwhelming effect on college attendance even during one of the greatest man-made agricultural disasters in modern history.
