Editing Texas A&M University (section)

===World Wars era===

Many Texas A&M alumni served during [[World War I]] and by 1918, 49% of all Aggies were in military service, a higher proportion than that of any other American college or university.<ref name="handbook"/> In early September 1918, the entire senior class enlisted, and there were plans to send the younger students at staggered dates throughout the next year. Many of the seniors were fighting in France when the war ended two months later.<ref name="liffick">{{Cite news|last=Liffick |first=Brandie |title=Tradition spanning generations |work=[[The Battalion]]|date=October 30, 2001 |url=http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2001/10/03/Ams125th/Tradition.Spanning.Generations-515912.shtml |access-date=March 22, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929105603/http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2001/10/03/Ams125th/Tradition.Spanning.Generations-515912.shtml |archive-date=September 29, 2007}}</ref> More than 1,200 alumni served as commissioned officers. After the war, Texas A&M grew rapidly and became nationally recognized for its programs in agriculture, engineering, and military science.<ref name="handbook"/> The first graduate school was organized in 1924 and the school awarded its first PhD in 1940.<ref name="handbook"/> In 1925, Mary Evelyn Crawford Locke became the first female student to receive a diploma from Texas A&M but she was not allowed to participate in the graduation ceremony.<ref name="crawford">{{Cite journal|last=Jordan|first=Carol|title=One Voice: Not Just Our Fathers' University|journal=Spirit: The Texas A&M Foundation Magazine|date=Spring 2010|publisher=Texas A&M University Foundation|url=http://spiritarchive.txamfoundation.com/2010Spring/index.html|access-date=February 16, 2011}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The following month, the Board of Directors officially prohibited all women from enrolling.<ref name="kavanagh"/>

Many Texas A&M alumni served in the military during [[World War II]]; the college's educational and technical training resulted in 20,229 trained combat troops for U.S. military efforts. Of those, 14,123 alumni served as officers, more than any other school, and more than the combined total of the [[United States Naval Academy]] and the [[United States Military Academy]].<ref name="adams160">{{Cite book|last=Adams|first=John A. Jr.|title=Keepers of the Spirit |publisher=Texas A&M University Press|year=2001|pages=160, 163|isbn=1-58544-127-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last = Dethloff|first = Henry C.|title = Texas A&M University|encyclopedia = The Handbook of Texas|url = http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kct08|access-date = October 2, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101203085854/http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kct08|archive-date = December 3, 2010|url-status = live}}</ref> At the start of World War II, Texas A&M was selected as one of six engineering colleges to participate in the [[Electronics Training Program]], which would train Navy personnel to maintain new [[radar]] systems.<ref>{{cite book|last=DeSoto |first=Clinton B. |title=The Navy Trains Radio Technicians |volume=26 |issue=11 |date=November 1942 |pages=13–18, 116–120 |url=http://www.rfcafe.com/references/qst/navy-trains-radio-technicians-nov-1942-qst.htm |access-date=July 27, 2012}}</ref> During the war, 29 Texas A&M graduates reached the rank of [[General officer|general]].<ref name="handbook"/>

After the end of World War II, enrollment rapidly grew as many former soldiers used the [[G.I. Bill]] to fund their education;<ref name="gillentine">{{Cite news |last=Gillentine |first=Kristy |title=Aggies recall days at Annex |newspaper=[[The Bryan-College Station Eagle]] |date=March 11, 2007 |url=http://www.theeagle.com/news/a_m/aggies-recall-days-at-annex/article_19478ada-717e-5720-8ac8-dda8a4bcd0c6.html |access-date=June 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016051301/http://www.theeagle.com/news/a_m/aggies-recall-days-at-annex/article_19478ada-717e-5720-8ac8-dda8a4bcd0c6.html |archive-date=October 16, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> however, enrollment stagnated in the following decade.<ref name=HistEnroll/>