He proposed an internship to his manager and Fleming. Mathieus devised a procedure that moved the store's profitability from fourteenth out of fifteen in the region to number one. So impressed was his district manager that Mathieus may spend the next few months traveling to all fifteen stores implementing his system. Tara Stecher is completing her third internship, this one at GTE's office in Lexington, Kentucky, where she's researching market opportunities in the deregulated telecommunications industry. Ray Laidet found an internship at Southwest Bank in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, where he is earning a teller's salary and seven university credits at the same time.
Internships are also one of the best ways to land a job after graduation.
These institutions must become specialized niche players in a more diversified world of learning. Like the corporations it hopes to continue serving, UM's business school has a business plan. What we've done is lay out our goals, our strategy, our action plan and then our measures. Associate Dean Robert Hollmann, whose responsibilities include tracking those measures, says it's too early to tell. The new philosophy has been influencing students for several years, however, and judging by the growth in placement rates of graduates and student interns and successes in regional and national competitions, UM's business school is achieving respectable success.