Intership listings for students
■ A Web site offers career
related opportunities for
students in various
University departments
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
To ease students’ searches for
internships, a new program has
been created that will encourage stu
dents “to go out and get experience. ”
The program, called Participa
tory Learning Experiences, brings
together most of the campus de
partments by emphasizing research
projects as well as traditional intern
ship opportunities. Established as
part Of the University’s Process for
Change, the program is based on a
Career Center Web site.
The new Web site —
uocareer.uoregon.edu/ple — is a
consolidation of internships from
25 University departments that of
fer more than three dozen pro
grams. The PLE program guaran
tees students a pass/no pass credit
for their participation.
PLE director Don Van Houten,
former degn of the College of Art
and Sciences, said the Web site
will make access to internships
more convenient for students.
“We don’t want to spend a lot of
time spinning your wheels,” he said.
The hopes of the members of the
PLE advisory committee, which is
composed of 10 professors and di
rectors, is that the difficulty of find
ing job experience will diminish.
Finding internships “can be a
confusing process for students,”
said Beth Pfeiffer, Career Center
assistant internship director .
“This [database] will make it easy
to get involved and make it a quali
ty experience for students.”
Internships or research oppor
tunities “must be related to depart
mental educational objectives,” in
order to be listed as a PLE, accord
ing to the Web site.
“There’s no excuse anymore,”
said Pam Cytrynbaum, internship
coordinator for the School of Jour
nalism and Communication. “Stu
dents must be good consumers of
the information available [and]
want to go out and get experience. ”
Individual PLE research projects
are required to be closely supervised
by a faculty member. A contract
must also be signed by the student
and supervisor that covers learning
objectives, a position description
and employer contact information.
“Students don’t have to look all
over any more,” said Pfeiffer, who
serves on the PLE advisory com
mittee.
The PLE program is attracting
the attention of departments that
do not have any other type of in
ternship system installed.
“The journalism school has al
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ways known that real-world expe
rience is essential,” Cytrynbaum
said. “For a long time, other parts
of the [University] didn’t have the
same sense of urgency.”
Opportunities from most of the
University’s departments, includ
ing psychology, education, archi
tecture and allied arts and politi
cal science, are already posted on
the site. More departments will
likely add to the on-line catalog as
awareness increases, Web site co
ordinator Tina Haynes said.
“Right now, it’s just a small sam
pling of what it’s going to be,”
Haynes said.
The Web site database allows
students to search for specific in
ternships in a number of depart
ments as well as in several differ
ent occupations. A description of
the results is displayed along with
contact information. “I strongly
urge everyone to get an intern
ship,” Cytrynbaum said. “I’d
scream out my window if I could
to tell everyone how important it
is to get some experience.”
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