The Daily Northwestern Speech Dean Barbara O'Keefe has hired a new associate dean to establish a School of Speech internship office that she hopes will begin matching students with jobs nationwide by Fall Quarter. Prof. Peter Miller will assume the position of associate dean Spring Quarter and plans to begin compiling a database of Speech internships soon afterward.
Students can receive academic credit for an internship taken during the school year or the summer.
O'Keefe said the program would be optional for Speech students but that she will look into making an internship a mandatory part of students' curriculum. It's about learning the background of your craft how people dress and talk and act. To learn those things, you have to get out into the world. You can't just sit on campus. Eventually, O'Keefe said she would like to use the Internet to allow students on internships to take Northwestern classes while they are away from school.