I'm not personally very involved in this on our campus, but we do have a structure you may find interesting. You can read about it at
http://www.alverno.edu/campus_resource/internships.html Essentially ALL of our undergraduate students (regardless of major) do internships of some sort, and that of course requires a lot more structure than simply a couple of faculty arranging things. We have an internship office with a number of fulltime staff who work with students to get placements, and who coordinate contact with the site mentors. Students also take an internship course concurrent with the field work, and the site mentors provide standard feedback to the course instructors. Unfortunately, right now the department is still almost entirely responsible for background checks, and that has become a problem for us, especially as we have more and more students at placements, and as the gov't budget crises have caused the costs to skyrocket. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee ----- Original Message ----- From: Dr. Bob Wildblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:00 AM Subject: Field Placement/Practica > TIPSters, > > We are beginning to place more people in practica than we have in the > past and the colleague with whom I share responsibility for supervising > these practica and I have decided that we need to have a more formal > way of dealing with these people than we have used in the past. I'd > really appreciate it if you might give me some information about how > you handle your practica. Anything that will help would be appreciated > -- examples of "contracts" between the institution and the student, the > student and the placement site, etc. would be great. We have a formal > structure that has to do with malpractice insurance that the University > provides for the student, but everything else is up for grabs. > > TIA > > Dr. Bob Wildlbood > Lecturer in Psychology > Indiana University Kokomo > Kokomo, IN 56904-9003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
