sites across Alabama. Taken by thousands of adults – including many women – these courses helped fill the wartime ranks of civilian engineers, chemists, and other technical professionals.
During the war, API also trained U.S. military personnel on campus; between 1941 and 1945, 32,000 troops attended the university in some manner. Following the end of World War II, as with many other colleges around the country, API experienced a period of massive growth caused by returning military personnel taking advantage of their GI Bill offer of free education. In the years following the end of the war, enrollment at API more than doubled pre-war enrollment.
=== Name change to Auburn ===
Recognizing the school had moved beyond its agricultural and mechanical roots, it was granted university status by the Alabama Legislature in 1960 and renamed to "Auburn University" which came from it being unofficially called "Auburn" since at least the 1930s, when Jordan-Hare Stadium opened in 1939 as "Auburn Stadium".
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