HLA 585 Internship in Higher Ed Admin

Graduate students enrolled in the Higher Education Leadership and Administration master's program will have the option of choosing as one of their elective courses a supervised, credit bearing internship. The program director will assist students in identifying suitable internship sponsors and preparing an internship learning contract stipulating the knowledge and experience the student aspires to attain as a result of the internship experience. Internship sponsors and mentors will be chief executive level leaders within the policy and operational environments of higher education institutions, agencies and organizations. Successful completion of the internship course will require a positive summation by the internship mentor, adherence to the learning contract developed by the student and approved by the program director prior to the internship start, as well as participation in the internship seminar conducted each semester by the program director. The internship seminar will meet three times each semester - at the beginning of the semester, at mid-semester and at the end of the semester. Seminar participants will share information about what they have learned as intern. The program director will lead the seminar using student learning contracts as resource material, as well as relevant articles on higher education internship experiences elsewhere in the country.