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ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS
Wide range of options available for new graduates
BY CLAIRE MCINERNY editor@kansan.com
editor@kansan.com
As some seniors are preparing for jobs and planning their lives after school, some students are experiencing a different scenario: the end of college panic.
Four years of classes and one degree later, some students do not know what they want to do post-coll
er. One opportunity that enables students to make that happen is through Teach for America. Teach For America is a program that allows recent college graduates to in public schools in low-income communities. The assignment lasts for two years.
Gina Littlejohn, the campus campaign coordinator for Teach For America, said the program accepts people of all majors, and apa way to prolong having to find a job, but rather look at it as a way to find new opportunities and new ways for students to use their passions. She said a lot of politicians who now work in Congress were in the program and are now fighting for education rights.
Wiechman spent his two years in Saint Lucia doing community development. He helped a farmers' cooperative develop a grant proposal to get funding for a composting project from the United Nations and also taught reading and music at a school.
PEACE CORPS
The Peace Corps was an attractive option for Wiechman because he did not have a clear direction for his future at the end of col
Like Teach For America, the Peace Corps is another way for
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ADMINISTRATION
Roney to leave influential post after eight years
Vice-provost of Student Success will remain at the University but begin in teaching post
BY D.M. SCOTT
dmscott@kansan.com
Marlesa Roney, vice provost for Student Success, announced Tuesday that she will resign from her post and go into teaching.
Roney
She will continue working as a vice provost until a replacement is found, when she will become professor of
the practice with the School of Education.
This non-tenured position is "required by accrediting bodies to provide students access to instruction from individuals active in practice," according to University policy.
in 2003, Roney became the first vice-provost for student success at the University, holding the position for eight years.
The search process for her replacement will begin in the next couple of weeks, said Joe Monaco, assistant director of communications at the University.
The student success department oversees several others and assists students by offering new student orientations, assistance with registration and services such as the writing center.
Settled in for summer
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Julia Simmons, a freshman from St. Louis, shows off her desk of her freshly moved in dorm room in Hashing Residence Hall Tuesday afternoon. Simmons and other students were allowed to move into the dorms starting Sunday in preparation for summer school. Simmons used this summer to begin her college career.