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.”
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