Education: Burning the Weekend Oil

Odd-hours classes for working students

James Caygill, public safety director in suburban Woodhaven, Mich., joined the Army right after high school. Later his hope of earning a college degree faded with the pressures of holding down a job and raising five children. True enough, he was free on Saturdays and Sundays, but he knew of no place that offered instruction at such times. Then in 1975 he heard about Weekend College, a pioneering effort of Wayne State University in nearby Detroit. Caygill enrolled, kept up a 3.65 average for five years and in June...

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