Cash-for-credits sells out students - Guest Column
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter guest column covers a proposed policy to charge students about $1,500 for summer internship credit.
- The News-Letter reported that Hopkins administrators were considering charging students about $1,500 for summer internship credit, possibly also affecting independent study and research.
- The paper reported that, at a Student Council meeting, Dean Burger said the Administration wanted to increase the academic nature of students’ work outside the classroom.
- The article adds that Burger compared the proposed internship-credit charge with summer-class costs and said she did not know why students should not pay for internships.
- The guest column argues that students already need faculty sponsors and must show academic merit, and it suggests that all internships receive at least a pass/fail grade.
- The reporter writes that the University had to choose whether to change the policy and says the proposed charge should not be implemented.