For Agencies Thank you for considering an eight-week Cornell Urban Scholar internship with your agency for summer 2009. Working with the city's poorest children, families, and communities in innovative nonprofit agencies encourages some of Cornell's brightest and most committed students to pursue public service careers.
Student Support CUSP provides the pay and housing for our students, as well as professional training and support -- both prior to and during the eight-week internship. Before the internship undergraduate students must complete CRP 3310, Social Justice and the City, a three-credit spring course that covers urban social-justice problems and the working life of professionals who address them. The CUSP executive director is based in New York City to assist students and agencies in achieving effective placements.
Employers as Mentors For many CUSP students the eight-week summer internship in New York City is their first taste of working in a public-interest or advocacy organization. Therefore, we need supervisors to
- Create a job description reflecting eight weeks of meaningful activity, including a project over which your intern can feel responsibility and accountability, and which can have some form of completion by the end of July;
- Interview at least one Cornell Urban Scholar in March 2008 in New York City;
- Consider hosting a Friday field trip to your agency, where students learn about how your organization addresses issues of social justice;
- Attend a one-hour supervisors' orientation on Monday afternoon, June 1, 2009, immediately followed by a one-hour intern/supervisor reception at 5:00 p.m.;
- Meet at least weekly with the intern during the summer internship to facilitate the student's acclimation to the agency and to answer questions and concerns about the project;
- Attend the CUSP final reception in New York City in July;
- Complete an evaluation at the end of the eight weeks.
Agency Placement Form
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Microsoft Word File (31 KB)
Contact
If you are interested in a summer intern or graduate research fellow, please contact Sarah Smith, CUSP administrator, at (607) 255-9987.
