Student Government’s “Plus 1 Scholars Program” may need to wait plus one more years before taking effect. Plus 1 was a main platform of SG President Nawara Alawa’s administration during the spring 2012 election. The initiative would allow students to study an academic passion separate from the student’s current degree for an additional year without paying for tuition. As Alawa’s term comes to an end, Plus 1 remains in its planning stages. The current executive board originally had a goal of completing the project by the end of this semester. “We are hoping to implement the project correctly and efficiently instead of quickly just to check it off of our list,” she said. A main challenge was finding ways to integrate the fifth-year option into the current framework of the curriculums of each school or college. “Working with each of them to figure out the best way to make this happen has been more complex than initially expected,” Alawa said. Alawa said that William Green, dean of undergraduate education, has been helpful in connecting SG to the deans. “He has a greater and more broad understanding of how academics at the university work,” she said. UM’s Plus 1 program is [...]
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