As reported in this week’s Voice feature, School of Foreign Service International Development Certificate Program Coordinator Zara Khan (SFS ’07) resigned yesterday.

In a letter sent to students currently studying international development, Khan claimed a lack of administrative support for the program led to her resignation.

“My departure from Georgetown is not related to salary or budget cuts,” she wrote. “I am leaving because the support from SFS which I had asked for did not materialize.”

Khan regularly faced shortfalls and obstacles in her coordinator role, despite the overwhelming popularity of the certificate program. (More than three times as many students plan to graduate with the certificate this year compared to the next-most popular, Asian Studies.)

From last summer until late September, for example, she worked as an unpaid volunteer while waiting for the University to offer her a part-time position. Despite Professor Maria Louise Wagner‘s support, that position never emerged.

Khan plans to move to Rwanda next week to work with an NGO “to develop income-generating opportunities for farmers and entrepreneurs through agricultural interventions that increase food security.”

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This afternoon, GUSA’s Tyler Stone (COL `09) emailed the GUSA Senate to announce that he was resigning as Senator. (Full disclosure: Stone was at one time a Voice staff member).

“At this point in my Georgetown career, and with graduation hovering a month away, I have little stomach left for political posturing,” he wrote. He went on to write that while many GUSA Senators do treat GUSA as a resume-padder, he felt that campus media often shortchanged GUSA when it “manages to crank out an accomplishment or two-Summer Fellows, for example-that decisively betters the student experience at Georgetown.”  (He also weirdly intimated that newspapers led “ineluctably to a hostile takeover by the Student Commission for Unity,” which I don’t get. Thoughts, anyone?)

Stone resigns with just two GUSA Senate meeting left to go this year. According to the Voice’s GUSA-savvy Lillian Kaiser, at the last meeting, Senator Tim Swenson (SFS `11) adamantly called for Stone’s resignation, citing a poor attendance record. Stone, Kaiser tells me, hasn’t attended a meeting since mid-February (or, since he was prominently featured into Kaiser’s cover story, which explored GUSA’s “bro culture”).

More, and Stone’s email after the jump

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