Maria Campos, an accounting main at Lehman Faculty, is working full-time this semester in a paid internship at Ernst & Younger. Like different internships at main corporations, it’s crucial work expertise and a profession builder. She is just not 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 achieve work expertise whereas getting paid and with out sacrificing progress towards their levels. We name them embedded internships.
“Internships are so important to getting a job when you graduate. It gives you experience you need — technical skills and interpersonal skills and a glimpse of what your life will be,” Maria says. “Getting credit has allowed me to focus on the work and get 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 supply 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 learning” alternatives – an method that’s central to our dedication to creating profession outcomes a precedence from the day a scholar steps onto a CUNY campus.
That’s vital to know for New York’s highschool seniors and their households as they head into school determination season. Our enlargement of applications that join school rooms to careers means there are extra methods than ever for college students to discover a pathway to their future with a CUNY training.
We now have greater than 31,000 employers, from each area, 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 diploma maps to assist college students attain profession milestones tailor-made to their majors as a part of their course planning.
One of the vital thrilling boosts to our work-based studying method has been the CUNY Spring Ahead 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.
Considered one of them is Kevin Duval, a Baruch Faculty finance main who landed a Spring Ahead internship final spring with GroupM, a significant worldwide media and advertising firm headquartered in Decrease Manhattan. He did so nicely that the corporate supplied him a job after commencement this spring.
“I got to learn a lot of skills, see how decisions are made and even have a say. As an intern, that was very uplifting and encouraging,” Kevin stated.
Matos Rodríguez is the chancellor of The Metropolis College of New York (CUNY), the biggest city public college system in america.
