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Harvard Can—and Must—Do More on Public Service By Priya Gill, Samuel R. Heller, and Christian A. Navarrette At Harvard, we are told to change the world. We came here because our hopes and aspirations are high, and this place was promised to be the ladder that would enable us to reach those goals. Once we […]
Cleveland State University receives $500,000 for internship program By Karen Farkas, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland State University has received a $500,000 gift to support service learning, paid internships and opportunities to study abroad. The Bonnie and Peter Raquet High Impact Learning Fund will help students in the College of Liberal Arts and Social […]
Another Successful Summer for the SHRM By Kathleen Coulombe 2017 proved to be another great year for the SHRM/Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) internship program. With a successful pilot year in the books for 2016, the program expanded from California to two additional states—Texas and Illinois. For 2017, four interns completed summer internships at […]
EDITORIAL: Inequity of Unpaid Internships By The Hoya Editorial Board For many students looking to gain valuable work experience and make an income, unpaid internships can be an unfortunate reality. Although the Georgetown University Student Association should be commended for its recent efforts to financially support students pursuing these opportunities, it is vital that […]
Bipartisan effort approves concept of Agricultural Workforce Development Program -National Young Farmers Coalition DENVER – At its final hearing today (Oct. 6), the first-ever Colorado Young & Beginning Farmers Interim Study Committee voted unanimously in support of creating an Agricultural Workforce Development Program in Colorado. This program would provide cost-share support to established farmers […]
Workforce plans put new emphasis on paid internships, apprenticeships By Dan Zehr – American-Statesman Staff Workforce data suggests more applicants than opportunities for white-collar and tech internships, but too few applicants for blue-collar postings. It’s gotten so hard to find skilled welders, the factory managers at Dynamic Manufacturing Solutions hung a bell on the wall […]
5 Reasons Boss’s Day is Total BS Why you shouldn’t celebrate this crock of a holiday on Friday. By Alison Green, Contributor, US News & World Report Boss’s Day is this Friday, Oct. 16, (2015) and it’s time to kill it. If you’ve never heard of Boss’s Day, count yourself lucky. While it […]
SAVE THE DATE 11th Annual Pack A Purse™ Drive: Collecting purses (totes and other handbags) filled with personal hygiene items for teen girls in foster homes, group homes, and homeless shelters. Only new and very gently used purses and bags will be accepted. Only new, unopened personal hygiene items accepted. November 1, 2017 […]
Unpaid Internships Are for the Privileged By Vaishnavi Paudel, Opinion Writer for The Triton Prelude: A Revelation Shrouded with malaise as I navigated to my first day at a new job, I nestled into my seat on the D.C. metro. The sea of newspaper-bearing, podcast-consuming young professionals ebbed and flowed before me at […]