For many, the internship becomes a springboard into a career in public service. Three College of Staten Island students were selected as Jeannette K. Watson Fellows for three summers of internships in New York City. They are Kenyatta Carter, Kate Luspenko, and Tara Lynch. Among other CUNY students chosen for Watson Fellowships were Taruna Sadhoo, Tara Wachtler and Rose Weixes of Queens College and Imran Ghani Chowdhury and Jillian Lubow of Hunter College. LaGuardia Community College, CUNY's only cooperative education college, gives students internship opportunities, some of which are paid, at businesses and institutions, that are directly engaged in a student's area of study.
Students also can serve in the non-profit field.
The LaGuardia program is one of the largst of its kind at any community college in the nation. With more than 90 research centers, institutes and consortia, CUNY is one of the nation's major research institutions. Scholars are conduct research in areas ranging from photonic imaging of breast cancer to children's literacy. Opportunities abound for students majoring in the field to assist in research projects. Today, a council of major business leaders, headed by Lewis Rudin, Chairman of the Association for a Better New York, meets regularly with the Chairman and Chancellor Matthew Goldstein.