Partner with VCU to expand internship access

We partner with organizations to create internship opportunities specifically for VCU undergraduate students. Many students are eager to contribute to organizations and gain valuable career-readiness and learning skills.

Your partnership helps students to:

  • Build career-readiness competencies and practical skills that carry across fields
  • Explore different work environments and career opportunities
  • Develop a network of mentors and professional connections
  • Meaningfully contribute to your organization’s goals and mission
  • Engage in reflective practice and professional growth
  • Put classroom theory into action

What you gain

  • Access to diverse student talent
  • Opportunity to shape new internship pathways and talent pipelines
  • Internal leadership development
  • Enhanced productivity and capacity
  • Innovation and creativity
  • Meaningful engagement with VCU

Partner with us!

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Designing High-Quality Academic Internships

We help you directly connect with the talent that best fits your organizational needs and capacity to support.

High-quality academic internships include:

  • Defined learning outcomes
  • Active supervision and mentorship
  • Project-based, meaningful work
  • Structured reflection and feedback
  • Application of academic concepts

Internships support development of key career-readiness competencies identified by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE): 

  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Critical Thinking
  • Leadership
  • Professionalism
  • Career and Self-Development
  • Technology
  • Equity and Inclusion