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<blockquote data-quote="Justice C. Bigler" data-source="post: 39975" data-attributes="member: 74"><p>Re: Interns, and the use thereof</p><p></p><p>The overarching end goal of an internship, is for educational purposes. The Department of Labor states that "the internship will be viewed as an extension of the individual’s educational experience (this often occurs where a college or university exercises oversight over the internship program and provides educational credit)."</p><p></p><p>This kind of dictates that an internship should be connected with some form of educational institution enrollment, and that the intern will receive a grade and occupational course credit for the internship. That educational program can be through a four-year university, a community college, a technical or trade school, or even a state run job training/retraining program, or even as part of a private not-for-profit organizational job and skills training program. What Mark described, probably wasn't technically an "internship", unless he reported to a school official and gave his young worker a passing or failing grade. But that doesn't negate the importance of what he did for the young man, and he is to be commended on helping a young worker get some sort of experience and gainful employment for the summer (especially with our current economic situation where too many young workers can't find ANY jobs).</p><p></p><p>I did two internships while in college. Our program (arts management) actually required that the internships be unpaid (I think they have relaxed this requirement since then). I did both of my internships at two local recording studios, one was privately run by a local engineer, the other run by the local community college (which really only did sessions for their own students and faculty). With the private studio I observed him during a couple of his recording sessions, and worked on a project for one of his former students that had a couple of songs, but not the money to record them. I also made up a bunch of my own paper work; contracts, rate sheets, input sheets, notes etc...for recording studio operations. For the studio at the community college I was the project manager, handling contacts, scheduling and paperwork for another student run recording project that lasted most of the summer. In neither case was I working in a for profit capacity or working in such a way that garnered a profit for the studio. And, at no time was I in the big chair mixing and editing the sessions and producing for the studios (no was I running around getting coffee and bagels or answering phones etc...)</p><p></p><p>At the end of the summer both of the engineers with whom I was doing my internship filled out an evaluation form and sent it to my professor at the University of Tulsa along with their recommendation for a final grade. Needless to say I got As in both internships.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Justice C. Bigler, post: 39975, member: 74"] Re: Interns, and the use thereof The overarching end goal of an internship, is for educational purposes. The Department of Labor states that "the internship will be viewed as an extension of the individual’s educational experience (this often occurs where a college or university exercises oversight over the internship program and provides educational credit)." This kind of dictates that an internship should be connected with some form of educational institution enrollment, and that the intern will receive a grade and occupational course credit for the internship. That educational program can be through a four-year university, a community college, a technical or trade school, or even a state run job training/retraining program, or even as part of a private not-for-profit organizational job and skills training program. What Mark described, probably wasn't technically an "internship", unless he reported to a school official and gave his young worker a passing or failing grade. But that doesn't negate the importance of what he did for the young man, and he is to be commended on helping a young worker get some sort of experience and gainful employment for the summer (especially with our current economic situation where too many young workers can't find ANY jobs). I did two internships while in college. Our program (arts management) actually required that the internships be unpaid (I think they have relaxed this requirement since then). I did both of my internships at two local recording studios, one was privately run by a local engineer, the other run by the local community college (which really only did sessions for their own students and faculty). With the private studio I observed him during a couple of his recording sessions, and worked on a project for one of his former students that had a couple of songs, but not the money to record them. I also made up a bunch of my own paper work; contracts, rate sheets, input sheets, notes etc...for recording studio operations. For the studio at the community college I was the project manager, handling contacts, scheduling and paperwork for another student run recording project that lasted most of the summer. In neither case was I working in a for profit capacity or working in such a way that garnered a profit for the studio. And, at no time was I in the big chair mixing and editing the sessions and producing for the studios (no was I running around getting coffee and bagels or answering phones etc...) At the end of the summer both of the engineers with whom I was doing my internship filled out an evaluation form and sent it to my professor at the University of Tulsa along with their recommendation for a final grade. Needless to say I got As in both internships. [/QUOTE]
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