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Sojourner Advocate Kate Geldaker works in the Wang Center Wednesday, May 7. The Sojourner Advocate is a year-long position that seeks students who have previously studied abroad to guide students looking to study away in the future. However, the Wang Center does not hire those planning to study during the year.

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The brief published May 2 (issue 21) by Liz Anderson under the headline “Students mourn together” was the wrong version and contained mistakenly plagiarized information. The correct version can be found here

Faculty Assembly votes to revise General Education Program

April Reiter & Jessica Baumer

Editor in Chief and Mast News Reporter

Over 120 faculty members voted Friday, May 9 at a monthly faculty assembly meeting in Leraas Lecture Hall in the Rieke Science Center to adopt Plan B, one of the three proposed plans to revise the General Education Program. This vote culminated a four-year process of institutional and outside research to amend the GUR requirement structure at PLU.

The plan must now be approved by the Board of Regents before it can be implemented, according to the Faculty Handbook. Following approval, it will not come into effect until the 2009-2010 school year.

The meeting covered a few other agenda items before the time to vote was announced.

Faculty members were given the opportunity to discuss the plans before the actual vote, but no suggestions for an amendment were allowed. Plan B was mentioned briefly by one supportive faculty member who also remarked on the similarity of all of the plans. 

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Edited Sunday May 11, 2008 at 7:25 PM PST by JKMP.

Semester-long sojourners struggle

Students studying away face unemployment upon their return

Emily Hoppler-Treichler - hoppleeb@plu.edu

mast news reporter

For students who decide to study away during their education at PLU, the trip abroad comes with an unexpected price: fewer jobs to choose from on campus. Many of the largest on-campus employers are reluctant to hire students if they are planning on studying away in the near future, particularly those employers who hire on a yearly or even semester basis.

Sophomore Chelsea Linsley, who has studied abroad previously and plans to study away again for spring 2009 semester, has encountered multiple problems with on-campus employment due to her plans abroad.

“Some positions do hire at the semester, and I applied for quite a few upon returning from Norway,” Linsley said. Linsley was unable to get a job on campus because she couldn’t do interviews during J-term for a job spring semester.

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