Internships help students build their resumes and learn real world skills that can help secure job offers after graduation. Yet many opportunities are unpaid, and only the best-off students can afford to work for free. Now, state universities in Wisconsin and New York are using their budgets to pay students who complete internships in their communities. Johanna Alonso of Inside Higher Ed reports on the promising outcomes of these programs. (May 2023)
Will Colleges Start Funding Paid Internships?
A sea of mortar boards during the 152nd SUNY Oswego Commencement for the School of Communications, Media and the Arts, and the Liberal Arts and Sciences, May 18, 2013, in Oswego, New York.