Welcome to Academic Engagement - Internships & Community Partnerships

Global Solutions Can Begin with Local Action

• Our office works to emphasize both developmental and capstone internships for students in every discipline.   
• A focus is the development of both long term and short term community based engagement opportunities with business, government agencies, and non-profits.
• Students will emerge with experience at the local, state, national, and international levels.

Featured Internship of the Week: Public Policy Internship, Institute for Humane Studies, Virginia, HireAHighlander Job ID# 2482. (visit HireAHighlander for more information).

IMPORTANT Internship Information

"Study Abroad to Career Abroad", webinar by Don Asher. Log on to the link and enter the user: utcareerweb; pass: utcs1103. "Interns Fare Better in Poor Job Market" by TMT Newswire.(PDF) RU Collegiate Entrepreneur Chapter wins Award for Fundraising with Portfolio Project. Take Once-in-a-Lifetime Journey to Baku, Azerbaijan, May 10th-June 1st, 2010. For more information contact Dr. Agida Manizade at amanizade@radford.edu. Check out www.studyazerbaijan.blogspot.com. With over 16,000 responses from seniors last year, the NACE student survey reported that 51.9 percent of senior respondents reported having an internship, co-op, or both during their time in college. This is slightly lower than the percentages reported in 2007 and 2008. 'Digital Dirt' Can Haunt Your Job Search (CNN.com article)

"The Phoenix Project was the most significant real world experience I have had as an undergraduate student." Donald White, Anthropology ('10) (click on picture for a larger view)

Kenya Study Abroad (brochure)

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