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By MONA Z. EOPPELT.IAN
Few freshman plan to stay in college
longer than four ralendar years to
complete their undergraduate degrees.
But part-time jobs, financial difficul
ties, dual majors, athletics and heavy
campus involvement are just a few cir
cumstances that force students to take
nine or 10 semesters instead of the
traditional eight.
UNL administrators agree that under
grads who spend more than four years
in college completing degree require
ments are not penalized while in school
or when entering the job market. Any
stigma attached to "fifth-year-plus" sen
iors in the past sddom exists today.
Al Papik, UNL director of admis
sions, said his office keeps retention
records of students for 10 consecutive
semesters. The admission office tracks
students by social security numbers.
Staffers mark yes or no if a student is
enrolled.
About 30 percent of all UNL stu
dents still are enrolled in the ninth
semester. Twenty percent are still track
ed in the 10th semester.
"Some students drop out and return,
so that will screw up their data some
what," Papik said. "But at least it shows
that a lot of students are here longer
than the traditional eight semesters."
Papik said economics is one major
reason students might take more sem
esters to earn degrees. Although the
university has no data available, Papik
said he thinks more students are tak
ing less hours because of part-time
jobs.
"Employers are looking at those part
time job records, too " Papik said. "We
are losing some of the stigma about
pushing through in eight semesters."
Some of that stigma penalized fifth-year-plus
students when applying for
financial aid. Before 1981, loans and
grants were cut off after the fifth year
of study.
' Since 1981, federal laws lifted such
penalities. Don Aripoli, director of fin
ancial aids, said students are eligible
for aid until they obtain their under
graduate degree or reach a limit that
each college sets which is 180 hourr
at UNL.
"So if students want to take five
years to get a teaching or engineering
degree or six years in architecture,
they can," Aripoli said. "We don't look
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at that negatively or positively when it
comes to distributing funds."
Aripoli said no data was available,
but he thinks there b a growing trend
toward 5-year-pius degrees.
"I think it's more normal now to see
students taking more than four years
to earn degrees than it was 10 years
ago," he said.
Aripoli agreed with Papik that part
time jobs are a major factor. Aripoli
added that tuition is a variable.
"It's cheaper to take 12 hours than
18, so students will have to take that
ninth semester in order to graduate,"
Aripoli said.
Aripoli said a third factor was the
competitive job market. More people
are going to college, so many students
want to enhance their academic back
ground to make them more "salable."
"Many students are taking a second
major and more than just the min
imum requirements," Aripoli said.
Papik said because of competition
for jobs, students may take fewer hours
each semester so they can concentrate
on fewer classes and make better
grades.
The UNL College of Engineering and
Technology was typically cited by ad
ministrators as having a high turnout
of fifth-year-plus graduates. Associate
Dean of Engineering Lyle Young said
extended college careers in his college
seem to be the rule and not the except
ion. Frederick Wendel, acting director of
UNL's career planning and placement
division, said employers do not view
fifth-year-plus graduates with "eye
brows raised."
"There are two major reasons why
students who come through this office
take more than eight semesters to
graduate," Wendel said. "One, they've
changed majors somewhere down the
line. Or two, they have a dual major
that requires more hours than they
can handle in eight semesters."
Wendel did say that students who
still are here after 10 years may show a
"lack of focus" that i3 unattractive to
employers.
"It's really a case-by-case basis,"
Wendel said. "Lost of prosepective em
ployers are attracted to fifth-year grad
uates who have a lot of work expe
rience. And they're seeing so many
fifth-year grads, they hardly think
twice."
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