To promote a diverse, qualified applicant pool from Oregon's own student population for future professional, managerial, and technical positions with OSU and state and local government agencies. Provide qualified OSU students of color the opportunity to gain compensated, mentored work experience in a 10-week summer professional, managerial, and technical internship. Participates in scheduled weekly luncheon forums and network groups, various workshops and a one-day field trip experience with major agency heads in Salem. Provides a supervisor who gives appropriate, structured professional supervision, guidance, and training to the intern.
Supervisor participates in all of the activities with their intern.
Experience diversity in the workplace. All 10-week summer internship costs are the responsibility of the sponsor. Interns are paid by Oregon State University, with funding provided by the sponsor through interagency funds transfer. Interns are not eligible to receive health benefits. See the sponsorship application form for additional details.