The business department encourages a growing number of student-initiated or faculty developed internship programs. Students network with business leaders, usually in their home communities. They share proposals for observation and learning of business and accounting application principles. Business faculty members aid the process by establishing a contract of learning. Internships last approximately three months, with periodic evaluation made by the supervising professor.
Students submit a daily log of activities and write a paper describing the internship experience.
At the end of the program, the host manager evaluates the student. Site Visits and Case Studies. Annual field trips to Chicago businesses and corporations are long-standing offerings in the business department. In recent years, the comparative economic systems class traveled to Washington, DC as part of a case study exercise to investigate public policy and globalization of economic activities. Phi Beta Lambda.