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Alignment of internships with students' degrees and career paths
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz discusses the importance of aligning internships with students' degrees and career paths. Lauren Andersen from CUNY provides information on their efforts to ensure proper alignment.
- CUNY is working to ensure internships are aligned with students' career aspirations and degrees
- The 311 internship program was an exception, not the norm, in terms of misalignment
- CUNY has generally done extensive work with agencies to identify internships and role titles with clear progression into degree-aligned roles
- Council Member Dinowitz agrees that while 311 work is valuable, it's important for college internships to align with students' specific purposes and goals
- CUNY's overall strategy focuses on creating internship opportunities that serve as launch pads for careers related to students' fields of study
Eric Dinowitz
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Okay.
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And And and I think that's an important point is that you wanna align their internships with with the degree attainment, with what they're getting.
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And are there other areas, other internships where you're finding like, 311, their the the internship they're being placed in isn't really a launch pad into a career or doesn't align a a different career rather or doesn't align with their degrees.
Lauren Andersen
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Generally, no.
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Generally, we've done a lot of work with agencies to make sure that they are identifying internships and role titles that have a clear progression into roles that are aligned with degrees.
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This is not the norm Yeah.
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Across this program.
Eric Dinowitz
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I mean, working in a throw in one center, I think is a is a great career.
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I think, you know, the pay is great.
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It's really important service, but I I think I I do agree that it's important that if you're going to college, for a specific purpose that it that your internship is aligned with that purpose.
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I I wanna pause it here, and we was off oh, we've also been joined by council member Eric Batcher.
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I wanna pause here and turn it back to Cherd Del Arosa for Council member questions?
Carmen De La Rosa
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Yes.
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Thank you so much, Sheridan.
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It's good questions on 311 and all of that.
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We were joined momentarily by council member wrestler and council member Marte, so I want to recognize them.
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And then council member brewer has a question.