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Contact PARSO
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Last Updated:
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Tuesday December 04, 2007
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We are a very diverse group, and we all bring our life experiences with
us as we enter into this academic curriculum. The main goal of this club is
to pass on the help we received, whether it was a friendly ear, or
information that helped us succeed in our classes, to the next group of PARSO members that enters the Juniata community.
PARSO is a group for non-traditional
and traditional students who are in need of personal and or educational
support.
Non-traditional students are defined as students that have not been in an
educational environment (High School and or College) for at least 5 years.
Non-traditional students are eligable to recieve PAR benefits.
The Program for Area Residents, known as PAR
at Juniata, offers to reduce Juniata's tuition by half to residents of
Huntingdon, Blair, Mifflin, Bedford, Centre,
Fulton, Franklin,
and Juniata counties. The program is open
to any adult who has been out of high school for at least five years and is
willing to commute to Juniata's campus. In
addition, any returning adult student cannot have attended Juniata as a degree-seeking student within the past
two years. Financial aid, in addition to the tuition break, is available to
those who qualify.
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In the Fall of 1999 some returning adult students
realized that there were plenty of resources avaliable for help, but felt
uncomfortable asking the more traditional students that were younger than
they were. Over the next 2 years several students met unofficially and
occasionally to discuss the problems they were having with different
subjects and life in general concerning the return to college after being
away from a school setting for several years. These students collectively discussed
their problems with Dan Cook-Huffman, Assistant Dean of Students, Tom
Kepple, Juniata College President and other faculty members. With the help
of the faculty and many other adult students, the PARSO
club became an official club at Juniata
College in the Spring
semester of 2001.
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The PARSO group has a
designated room set aside for meetings and a place to get away from the
hustle of campus life. It's not much but if your interested please stop by.
The PARSO Lounge is located downstairs
in Good Hall, right at the bottom of the steps it's the first door you see
straight ahead of you, beside the vending machines. Normally there are
several group members having lunch around noon in this room, there is a
refrigerator, microwave, toaster oven, and coffee pot avaliable for use.
There is also a supply of paper plates, plastic utensils, etc. for the
members use.
Stop by and introduce yourself, just take a break between classes, or if
you just need a place to vent your frustrations, there is usually other PAR
students in the room that are willing to listen.
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