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Peace Corps internship Grad credit offered By PAUL BARTON Texas A&M University and the Peace Corps have established an in ternship program that allows graduate students in A&M’s College of Agriculture to earn college credit while serving as Peace Corps volun teers. Dwight Linsley, Texas A&M’s Peace Corps coordinator, says the program is “geared primarily” for students working on a master’s of agriculture degree, since they are required to perform some kind of in ternship anyway. But he adds that master’s and doctoral candidates can also take advantage of the program, using the internship to conduct necessary research. Linsley says students have been interested in a way to earn college credit in the Peace Corps for a long time. “The Peace Corps cannot give col lege credit,” he says. “The only way Peace Corps volunteers can earn college credit is through coopera tion between the Peace Corps and the university. This program is an answer to that problem. While serving as regular Peace Corps volunteers, interns will work on projects designed in cooperation with their faculty advisers. For example, Linsley says a food technology professor and a student intern might share an interest in studying human sorghum consump tion in Africa, since sorghum is eaten mainly by animals in the Unites States. In particular, they would be interested in how it is prepared and the menus it is used in. “Ideally,” says Linsley, “the ad viser and his graduate student would have a well-defined interest in a problem and a place where the problem could best be studied.” While the intern is abroad he will send back monthly reports to his adviser on how the project is com ing. Linsley says that if it becomes necessary for the professor to make an on-site inspection of the intern’s work, the Peace Corps will pay the transportation costs. Once the idea for the internship is developed, it must be approved by the Dean of the College of Agricul ture, the Dean of the Graduate Col lege, the Peace Corps office in Washington and representatives of the host country. Since selected students will be serving as regular Peace Corps vol unteers in addition to working on their internships, Linsley says they will be expected to stay in the Peace Corps for a full two years even if their project is completed in shorter time. Interns will receive all regular Peace Corps benefits, including a monthly living allowance and readjustment allowance when they return to the United States. In addi tion, they may be able to earn additional college credit by taking courses at foreign universities that are accredited in the United States. Before going abroad, however, they will be required to finish all of their regular classroom work at Texas A&M. When they return to the United States they will write a report on their experiences and finish any other requirements for their degree such as oral exam inations. The idea for the internships pro gram came from Tito French, a former Peace Corps volunteer who is currently working on a doctorate in horticulture at Texas A&M. Ac cording to French, there are few programs available for students who are interested in working on inter national problems. “This opens up a whole new ball game,” he said. Linsley developed the details of the plan and pushed for its adoption — finally getting Peace Corps ap proval in October 1977. “When we began to develop this program,” says Linsley, “I felt that a major benefit could be that it would provide one opportunity for A&M faculty to become involved with problems in developing countries.” He adds that the plan “opens up a large part of the developing world in which to do research.” Although Cornell, Illinois and Michigan State are among other universities having^ similar pro grams, Linsley calls A&M “unique in its breadth and flexibility.” iry km lAi irx ini iai w irx mv wm w mu mu mu vu mu mu mu ^ 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3l Rrt im KrtRA Wl Rrt **»m W********* w* A*****RR rrr. PACK’S PLASTER AND CERAMICS One of the largest selections of plaster in Texas. Art supplies, ornamental concrete and candles. 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