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Internships for Pay, Credit, or None of the Above

Filed under Internships
Posted by Libraries, May 21, 2008
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Internships for Pay, Credit, or None of the Above

Letters to the Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2008, pg. 39 Vol. 54 No. 31

Featured here are 3 editorials in response to an article written by Ben Yagoda entitled, “Will Work for Academic Credit” (The Chronicle, March 21). The original article talks about the ways in which the current demand for internship experience reinforces the gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots”, especially since the advent of the popular academic credit requirement. Businesses will often require that the student intern be earning College credit in return for their work. Now quite often, students not only are expected to work without pay, but they also must come up with tuition funds in order to take part in the internship opportunity. While, College credit is better than no return at all, the quality of the experience gained in the internships is not always up to speed, and the expenses associated with the summer internship are a substantial deterrent for less well-off students.

The responses to Yagoda’s article range from opposition to academic credits for summer internships, to serious questioning of the unpaid scholarship culture altogether.

blogged by Julie Waddick