| How to “Embed” Career Services Into Academic Affairs |
| Placing internship and co-op professionals in academic departments can give career services a leg up on promoting experiential education to faculty and students. |
| Improving Academic Internships |
| Internships are important, but colleges and universities need to ensure their educational value, and given the importance of internships in higher education, periodic review of the program is essential to ensure the best educational experience possible. |
| MSU Builds Competencies Check Into Intern/Co-op Evaluations |
| The Mississippi State University (MSU) career center has worked to incorporate college/university accreditation standards into its co-op and intern employment evaluations to create a secondary evaluation source supporting concepts learned in the classroom and assessing whether the competencies are being mastered. |
| Practice-Based Education a Cornerstone of the Wheelock College Experience |
| Wheelock College has a policy that calls for each student to have at least one field-based experience throughout his or her academic career. |
| Taking Internship Evaluations to a New Level |
| American University’s career center developed a method for distributing and tracking internship evaluations to help faculty that administer internships and to provide career services with valuable data. |
| Grants Make Internships Accessible to Low-Income Students |
| Through a grant program, Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation is making internships accessible to low-income students. |
| Taking Internships to a Higher Level |
| Willamette MBA has refined its internship program to address student and employer objectives. Internship evaluations provide faculty with a resource they can use to inform curriculum development to ensure that what they are teaching students is relevant to employers. |
| The Value of Unpaid Internships |
| Even though unpaid internships correlate negatively to student salary and employment outcomes, they are not without value. |
| Exploring the Implications of Unpaid Internships |
| Unpaid internships correlate negatively to student salary and employment outcomes, but do correlate to positive outcomes, according to a NACE Foundation study. |
| The Impact of Unpaid Internships on Career Development |
| A study funded by the NACE Foundation looks at how unpaid internships affect the career development and employment outcomes of college students. |
| Innovation Through Collaboration |
| DePaul University leverages institutional relationships to market internships through a workshop provided at employer hubs. |
| Internships as a Pedagogical Approach to Soft-Skill Development |
| The authors explore soft-skill development through internships. |
| The Impact of Undergraduate Internships on Post-Graduate Outcomes for the Liberal Arts |
| Funded by the NACE Center, this study examines how internships impact the development and initial career outcomes of liberal arts graduates. |
| Study Shows Impact of Internships on Career Outcomes |
| GPA and the total number of internships a student completed as an undergraduate student are the major predictors of initial career outcomes. |
| NACE Center: Current Research on the Impact of Internships |
| Free downloads from the NACE Center: These studies examine how internships impact the development and initial career outcomes of college graduates. |
| Setting Up a New Office: The Mechanics |
| This companion to “Starting and Maintaining a Successful Internship Office” details the mechanics behind setting up such an office. |
| Starting and Maintaining a Successful Internship Office |
| Setting up and maintain a successful internship office on the college campus hinges on building effective relationships with employers and students. |
| Unpaid Internships and the Career Success of Liberal Arts Graduates |
| This article provides highlights from the authors’ study, “The Impact of Unpaid Internships on the Career Success of Liberal Arts Graduates.” |
| Sexual Harassment Training for Interns |
| Two University of Wisconsin Oshkosh professors are developing a training program for interns to address the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace. |
| Bringing On-Campus Internships to Your Campus: Challenges and Lessons Learned |
Clemson University’s on-campus internship program helps
1,000 students a year gain experience, build career readiness competencies, and
defray expenses, but it’s development was not without challenges.
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| Engaging Students: The On-Campus Internship Program |
Through its University Professional Internship and Co-op Program,
Clemson University provides 1,000 students a year with the opportunity to gain
experience, defray expenses, and build career readiness competencies. |
| Helping International Students, Others Meet Internship Requirements |
Macalester College and Wesleyan
University share their approaches for helping international and other students with specific
internship requirements.
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| How One University Makes Unpaid Internships Pay Off for Students |
Texas
Christian University students taking low-paying or unpaid internships can qualify
for the Scholarship Funding Program, which pays them during their internships. |
| InternPLUS Finds Opportunities for Nontraditional Students |
| UMUC’s InternPLUS program helps nontraditional students gain valuable experiential education experience despite the scheduling challenges they face. |
| Courses Allow All UConn Students to Document Internships |
UConn’s internship
course options provide all undergraduate students a method of notating their
internship experience or earning academic credit for it.
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| Videos Help Interns Stay Connected to Indiana Wesleyan |
Indiana Wesleyan University interns are
required to create video answers to questions about their experiences. The
exercise has several beneficial results. |
| The Impact of Internships and Study Abroad on the Career Readiness of First-Generation Students |
NACE research suggests that internship and study-abroad
experiences have a positive effect on the career readiness of first-generation
students.
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| Recognition Event Boosts Internship Program’s Visibility |
Each spring, Indiana Tech holds an event
to recognize student interns and their employers, and to bring greater visibility
to the school’s internship program. |
| Creating an Intern Evaluation Template for Wide Use |
The University of Washington created an
intern performance evaluation template that it shares with employers, and on
and beyond campus. |
| UNL Toolkit Helps New, Existing Internship Programs |
| The University of Nebraska – Lincoln’s Employer Internship Toolkit provides key information to employers with existing internship programs and to those looking to establish one. |
| Collaboration Looks to Support Parent Engagement at RIT |
| RIT Career Services has partnered with Parent and Family Programs to promote existing resources and develop new ones to help parents help their students. |
| An Experiential Learning Alternative for Ph.D.s: Business Concepts for Life Scientists |
| A team at University of California San Francisco set out to help advanced degree students interested in gaining business knowledge. |
| First Steps to Improving Internship Participation |
| Staff at Oakland University examined barriers to internship participation among English majors and developed ways to address those barriers. |
| Allowing Students to Use Jobs as Internships |
| Can a current job also count as an internship? Several members of the NACE Community weigh in with their views. |
| The Impact of Scholarships on Unpaid Internships |
| Rhonda Fisher Eaker and Alyssa Marks, Metropolitan State University of Denver, look at the effects of funding students for internships in fields where internships are traditionally unpaid. |
| Helping Employers Provide Professional Development for Interns |
| Can a current job also count as an internship? Several members of the NACE Community weigh in with their views. |
| Program Provides Paid Internships for Idaho State Students |
| Each year, Idaho State University invests approximately $2 million to provide career- and major-related paid internships to its students through its Career Path Internship program. |
| Understanding Cooperative Education |
| Using insights gleaned from quantitative and qualitative research, author Mallory Wallace addresses the question “What is cooperative education?” |
| Finding Solutions for Interns Impacted by the Pandemic |
| The career services office at Johnson & Wales is developing solutions that meet contact versus credit hours for interns impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. |
| Should a Student Add a Cancelled Internship to Their Resume? |
| How important is it for a potential employer to know that a student was offered an internship even though the position was rescinded due to COVID-19? |
| How Do You Determine Scholarship Amounts for Unpaid Internships? |
| Several career services practitioners offer their approach for determining an appropriate scholarship amount for interns who are unpaid or underpaid. |
| Rutgers Business School Finding Alternative Plans for Interns |
| After all of its interns were able to complete their requirements for spring, Rutgers Business School is making accommodations or finding alternatives for summer interns. |
| What Do Students Think of Their Virtual Internships? |
| How do virtual internship programs compare with their pre-pandemic counterparts? NACE members share what they have heard from students about their virtual summer internship experiences. |
| A Campuswide Transformation: Increasing Access and Reducing Barriers to Student Engagement in Experiential Learning |
| In summer 2019, Florida State University implemented an experiential education graduation requirement for all undergraduate students. |