This report represents the work of a student or students in the New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE) Student Internship in Economic Development (SIED) program. The objective of this program is to relate the resources of institutions of higher education to economic development organizations in such a way as to: (1) assist economic…

This booklet has been prepared to inform and advise students applying for or just beginning internships. Former interns from 15 different programs in North Carolina were asked for specific and general advice about internships based on their own experiences. The answers they gave are presented in relation to general advice for a new intern, how to…

This pamphlet brings together information about the service-learning model, offers sequential steps that colleges and universities can take to implement or expand public-need-based learning, and itemizes some tools for program management. Steps to develop a public-need-based-service learning program consider the development of conceptual clarity,…

The 1971 Georgia Summer Governor's Intern Program was a pilot project to determine the validity of involving college students in a community-based service-learning internship context. Stated objectives of the program were: (1) to give immediate manpower assistance, through the work of students to agencies concerned with economic and social…

The North Carolina Internship Office (NCIO) has sponsored for the past several years a service-learning program for college students. NCIO has prepared this booklet to make readily available abstracted and consolidated information about the service-learning internship model and to suggest organizational policy considerations for making…

Approximately 1,100 students from about 50 colleges and universities worked in more than 50 New York City agencies for the summer of 1966 in a million dollar program funded by the College Work-Study Program of the Office of Education and by the City, and administered largely by students. The Urban Corps had 3 purposes: to get needed work done; to…

With the aim of adding clarity to college practice in experiential education and service learning, a taxonomy of experiential education is proposed. For each of three categories (internship, cooperative education, service learning), goals and objectives of the major stakeholders (academy, student, host organization) are specified. Four levels of…

Calling study-service a kind of nonformal education with potential to generate other kinds of nonformal education, the author describes Nepal's National Development Service to explain this scheme in developing countries. All degree-level university students must complete a year of community development service in rural areas before their final…

This program report traces the development of the University of Virginia's undergraduate internship program. The original internship program was established in 1973 to provide social science majors, chiefly psychology majors, with opportunities to apply academically derived knowledge and skills in community service areas. Funded by a federal…