Internships for Undergrads

Snowball_City
Sun, 29 Jan 2017 22:02:58 +0000

It is very unfair and it hurts the low income students the most. I have been in contact with a local nonprofit about trying to fund a small stipend to help offset the transportation costs for low income or first generation students. I can’t afford to entirely fund the internships.

The non profit was receptive to that idea and may decide to fund it to expand it. I had laid out how much it costs the students in terms of car availability, insurance, and gas money to do an “unpaid” internship and noted that by requiring it to be for college credit the student also incurs a cost at the college to have the credit be granted. I do believe the light bulb went off for them.