Maria Campos, an accounting main at Lehman School, is working full-time this semester in a paid internship at Ernst & Younger. Like different internships at main firms, it’s essential work expertise and a profession builder. She just isn’t solely being paid but in addition incomes 9 credit towards her diploma.
Maria is a participant in an internship program launched within the fall by Lehman’s College of Enterprise to assist college students acquire work expertise whereas getting paid and with out sacrificing progress towards their levels. We name them embedded internships.
“Internships are so necessary to getting a job if you graduate. It provides you expertise you want — technical abilities and interpersonal abilities and a glimpse of what your life might be,” Maria says. “Getting credit score has allowed me to give attention to the work and get probably the most out of it.”
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In its first yr, the Lehman program has already partnered with greater than 20 employers and the New York Jobs CEO Council to offer 90 enterprise college students with paid internships. This system is on the reducing fringe of CUNY’s drive to increase entry to paid internships, apprenticeships and different “work-based studying” alternatives – an strategy that’s central to our dedication to creating profession outcomes a precedence from the day a pupil steps onto a CUNY campus.
That’s necessary to know for New York’s highschool seniors and their households as they head into school choice season. Our enlargement of packages that join school rooms to careers means there are extra methods than ever for college kids to discover a pathway to their future with a CUNY schooling.
We now have greater than 31,000 employers, from each discipline, actively recruiting within the CUNY system. We’ve linked greater than 16,000 college students on to paid internships within the final three years. In the meantime, over 100 of our tutorial departments have begun incorporating career-infused degree maps to assist college students attain profession milestones tailor-made to their majors as a part of their course planning.
Some of the thrilling boosts to our work-based studying strategy has been the CUNY Spring Forward program, which we started in 2023 with $4 million in state funding. Over three springs, this system has offered 2,264 CUNY college students with paid internships which have accelerated their profession prospects.
One in every of them is Kevin Duval, a Baruch School finance main who landed a Spring Ahead internship final spring with GroupM, a serious worldwide media and advertising and marketing firm headquartered in Decrease Manhattan. He did so properly that the corporate provided him a job after commencement this spring.
“I obtained to study plenty of abilities, see how selections are made and actually have a say. As an intern, that was very uplifting and inspiring,” Kevin stated.
Matos Rodríguez is the chancellor of The Metropolis College of New York (CUNY), the most important city public college system in the USA.
