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ERIC Number: ED609266
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov
Pages: 3
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Taking Internships Online: Insights from MDRC's 2020 Gueron Scholars Program. Issue Focus
Alonzo, Erick
MDRC
The COVID-19 crisis has upended students' lives and their career plans, including their ability to line up college internships. As millions of people across the country continue to work or attend school from home, many companies and organizations have had to cancel their internship programs, which are an important part of recruitment and diversity hiring initiatives. MDRC's Gueron Scholars Program (GSP) has continued to operate, despite the disruption caused by the global pandemic. The program typically offers paid undergraduate- and master's-level internships at the organization's New York City office, during which students work hands-on with project teams for eight weeks on a range of organizational and analytical tasks. This year the pandemic caused some of MDRC's research to be put on pause which led to unanticipated budget constraints. As a result, MDRC made the difficult decision to suspend its master's internships and doctoral fellowships for 2020 and focused instead on the undergraduate component of the program. The internship was redesigned to take place virtually for local college students -- in part, because so many organizations and businesses in New York City had cancelled their summer employment opportunities. This Issue Focus shares lessons from MDRC's experience planning and implementing a virtual learning program and offers some things for other organizations to consider if they are thinking about offering virtual programming in the future.
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: MDRC
Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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