{"id":66978,"date":"2019-04-25T10:39:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=66978"},"modified":"2019-04-25T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:40:43","slug":"college-of-liberal-arts-internship-partners-expo-draws-a-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/25\/college-of-liberal-arts-internship-partners-expo-draws-a-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Liberal Arts’ Internship Partners Expo draws a crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Internship Partners Expo provided an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to network with a wide variety of internship partners.\u00a0(Photos by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State University students interested in internships got a good look at the opportunities available to them during the College of Liberal Arts\u2019 third annual Internship Partners Expo.<\/p>\n

Nearly 40 organizations were represented at the April 18 event in the Millett Hall Atrium, a 20 percent increase from the first expo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so exciting to see this growing,\u201d said organizer Wayne Stark, director of workforce development for the Center for Liberal Arts Student Success (CLASS)<\/a> and career consultant with the Wright State Career Center<\/a>. \u201cWe are actually going to outgrow the space.\u201d<\/p>\n

The expo was an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to network with a wide variety of internship partners, including many Wright State alumni, about their available internships. It attracted more than 100 students, some from other colleges, including those in business and finance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe expo covers just about every sector,\u201d said Stark. \u201cStudents can test-drive a career. They can get a feel for if it\u2019s something they are really interested in. It certainly gives them experience so when they are applying for that job they have some real-world experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The expo featured representatives from corporations, nonprofits, legal services, social services, media organizations, education groups, health and wellness organizations, the arts and local government.<\/p>\n

Stark said the organizations benefit from internships because they \u201cget some really good students who are fired up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students are hungry. They work hard,\u201d he said. \u201cThey make real contributions. It\u2019s not just filing or grabbing coffee. They are contributing to projects, research and in all kinds of ways that make a positive difference They can put that on their resumes and oftentimes the internship is a pipeline to full-time jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nearly 40 organizations were represented at the College of Liberal Arts Internship Partners Expo.<\/p><\/div>\n

Organizations represented at the expo included AmeriCorps, the Area Agency on Aging, Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley, COLA Mentoring Program, Dayton Children\u2019s Hospital, Dayton History, Dayton Society of Artists, DeCoach Rehabilitation Centre, Enterprise Holdings, Epluno, Good Neighbor House, Greene County Adult Probation, Greene County Family Visitation Center, Greene County Records Center and Archives, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton, Human Race Theatre Company, K-12 Gallery and TEJAS, MCS T.O.U.C.H, Miamisburg Police Department, Montgomery County Adult Probation, Montgomery County Juvenile Court, Montgomery County Youth Resource Center, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Reynolds and Reynolds, St. Mary Development, The Event Connections, The ONEIL Center, The Salvation Army Dayton Kroc Center, Vivial Media LLC, WACO Air Museum, Warren County Records Center and Archives, WDTN\/Dayton\u2019s CW, Wright State Athletics, Wright State Special Collections and Archives, Wright State Student Legal Services, YWCA Dayton and YWCA Dove House Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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