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UNLV and the U.S. Peace Corps announced plans today (Feb. 24) for a partnership that will benefit both UNLV students and the Peace Corps.

As a result of the partnership, students in UNLV's master of fine arts program in creative writing will have the option of satisfying their overseas study requirement with a stint in the Peace Corps.

Similarly, people who have completed a Peace Corps assignment and wish to pursue an MFA in creative writing will be able to use their Peace Corps experience to fulfill the same requirement, if they meet the criteria to be accepted into the MFA program.

"This program is such an exciting development for us," said UNLV President Carol C. Harter. "We always are looking for partnerships with other organizations that will enhance the education of our students and benefit others as well, and in this unique program we seem to have found an ideal way of achieving those goals."

UNLV English professor Richard Wiley, who heads the MFA program, said, "Our MFA program is committed to the idea that living in a foreign country for a period of time is invaluable to a writer. This venture with the Peace Corps gives our students another avenue for completing their overseas requirement while at the same time providing a worthy service.

"Many students still will opt for the more traditional study-abroad programs, which is fine. The Peace Corps track, however, offers them another exciting option which often would take them to parts of the world that other programs generally would not," said Wiley, an award-winning writer who used his Peace Corps experience in Korea in the late 1960s as the basis for his novel, "Festival for Three Thousand Maidens." Many of his other novels also have foreign settings.