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Help
us build a bridge to the world of work.
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Internships
are a valuable way for students to bridge the
academic world and the world of work. By participating
in an internship, students have the opportunity
to test career choices, develop professional confidence
and competence, and understand how their studies
can be applied to the world beyond Oberlin.
Oberlin alumni are in a unique position to provide
assistance to Oberlin students seeking meaningful
internship opportunities.
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All about Winter Term internships.
Winter Term (the month of January)
presents an opportunity for you to share your
expertise with a current student and help them
learn more about your career field. Winter Term
internships are designed to provide students with
realistic exposure to occupational fields in which
they are interested.
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Here are the guidelines.
- The internships should
be supervised, and should consist of "substantive
work."
- The intern must work
with the site supervisor and the faculty
sponsor to determine learning goals for
the internship
- The intern must report
on his or her progress throughout the
month, and must present the faculty sponsor
with a final project at the end of the
internship
- The site supervisor should
complete an evaluation of the student's
progress at the end of the internship,
and submit it to the faculty supervisor.
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What's in it for me?
Here is an opportunity
for you to share information about your profession
and provide career mentoring to an Oberlin student.
Also, you get an eager assistant to help out with
projects for a month.
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What does
the student get?
- A firsthand look at
what it's really like to work in your
field
- The opportunity to
apply their liberal arts skills in a
real-world environment under the supervision
of a faculty sponsor
- Information to help
them in their career decision-making
- Experience to strengthen
their future job and internship applications
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Recent Winter Term internship
sites have included (along with others):
| Agricultural
Research Services |
Lansner &
Kubitschek
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| American Civil Liberties Union |
McClatchy
Newspapers
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| American Folk Art Musem |
Morgan Stanley
Dean Witter
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| Amistad America Inc. |
Museum of
Chinese in the Americas
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| Black Arrow Capital |
Musem of International Folk Art
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| Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents |
New Directions Publishing |
| California Asia Business Council |
New York Foundation for the Arts |
| The Children's Village |
The Nurturing Center |
| Cleveland Green Building Coalition |
Office of Lieutenant Governor of Illinois |
| Cleveland Museum of Art |
Ohio City Orthopedics, Inc. |
| EcoCity
Cleveland |
PanAfrican Acupuncture Project |
| Environmental
Defense |
Retirement Research Foundation |
| Fox
Movietone News |
Seavey Vineyard |
| Harlem Legal Services |
South End Press |
| Health Care for All |
U.S. Senator Carl Levin |
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Housing
Students are eager to participate
in internships across the country during Winter
Term. But for some students, finding housing
for a month can pose a problem We do not require
that internship sites provide housing for
Winter Term interns, but we ask you to consider
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Summer or academic
semester internships
Oberlin College maintains
a database of internship opportunities available
to students. We share the database with 24 other
Liberal Arts Career Network (LACN) consortium schools.
We would be happy to post your internship to the
entire consortium, or just to Oberlin College students.
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Whether
you can personally supervise a student intern, or
could help a student get into an internship where
you work or volunteer, we would be happy to hear
from you! The deadline to list a winter term internship
is October 9, 2006.
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For more information, or to post
an internship, please contact:
The Office of Career Services, Oberlin College
440.775.8140/fax 440.775.8089
internships@oberlin.edu
Or fill out our form
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