Contacts with cooperating sites regularly occur via telephone, email, and surface mail. Site visits typically take place when one of our interns is on the job but may occur when the coordinator wishes to solicit cooperation from a newly identified firm or agency. Evaluation of interns requires the coordinator's attention throughout the summer because every two weeks, following a set schedule, interns submit daily logbook entries. At the end of July all interns submit an essay for evaluation, and the supervisory official sends in his or her critique of the student. Logbooks, essays, and critiques, in equal measure, determine the internship grade.
Many interns receive job offers from their internship supervisor.
In fact, a number of supervisors interview and otherwise recruit interns with an eye toward hiring them, seamlessly, once their student obligations are over. Even if a job offer is not forthcoming, the intern supervisors willingly write letters of reference as the intern leaves or later requests a job-related referral. Here are some supervisor comments about recent Geography interns. We have worked well together. She has been a delight to work with and will be sorely missed.