Benefits to faculty

• Classroom presentations regarding importance of internships and services offered by Internship Services (contact us to arrange a presentation);
• Classroom workshops on resume writing (contact us to arrange a workshop);
• Personal help to YOUR students seeking internships including resume, cover letter, internship search, interview skill and application process assistance; development and availability of quality working and learning opportunities for interns; local, regional, state, national, and international internships available; internship advertising on Griz eRecruiting (online internship listing), faculty and department e-mail, and via posters on campus bulletin boards; list of department faculty internship advisors and liaisons;
• Integrate classroom learning with practical work experience;
• Internships enable the University to offer a broader range of learning activities than those available in the classroom;
• Students return to the classroom with more maturity, new insights and heightened interest in subject matter;
• Returning interns enhance classroom learning through discussions of their experiences and projects with the professor and other students;
• Records maintenance including Learning Agreements (with appropriate learning outcomes), Student's Midterm Evaluation of the Internship Experience, Student's Final Evaluation of the Internship Experience, and the Supervisor's Evaluation of the Intern;
• Assistance developing learning outcomes;
• Track and report assessment of the learning experience;
• Random site visits to insure students meet established learning outcomes;
• Assistance developing and determining credit policies and limits;
• Data report creation on internship placements;
• Track and report retention and continuation to graduation for interns;
• Promote positive and more personal relations with students and employers;
• Opportunity to network with professionals in the field;
• Opportunity to keep up with current industrial practice;
• Opportunity to identify the relevance of curriculum to contemporary needs;
• Mediate problems between interns and employers.