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2008/2009 INTERNSHIPS
The Department of Commerce (DOC) announces internship opportunities for Spring 2009 academic term.
Interested students should visit www.orau.org/doc to access the application form and additional programmatic information. Students may also ask questions via email to DOCprogram@orau.org .
Spend your summer meeting and supporting the people who plant, harvest and produce the food you eat everyday! Through the Into the Fields Summer Internship you will support and organize farmworkers, get trained on the issues surrounding their lives and the broader context of the agricultural industry. Each summer, Student Action with Farmworkers places 30 college students to work full-time with organizations in the Southeast that serve, organize or advocate for farmworker justice including migrant health clinics, legal aid, unions, community-based organizations and education programs. Interns also participate in a Theater Group or complete a Documentary Project with Farmworkers!
To qualify you must speak intermediate to advanced Spanish. SAF preferences college students from farmworker families and students from the Southeast.
Benefits include $1250 total per diem, $1500 scholarship, free furnished housing, free trainings and some travel costs. Program runs June 1-August 9, 2009.
Applications due February 11, 2009.
Check out www.saf-unite.org for the brochure and more information (available in November). Contact Melanie Stratton, National Student Organizer at 919-660-3652 or Melanie.stratton@duke.edu.
Every year the Mine Action Information Center at JMU selects one person to serve as the JMU Frasure-Kruzel-Drew Humanitarian Demining Fellow at the US Department of State. This is a prestigious, one-year paid internship position in the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the DOS's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. The Fellow must either be a JMU student or a recent graduate of JMU. The chosen intern must be able to receive a secret security clearance, which can take 4-5 months to complete.
For application materials and more information, please visit: http://maic.jmu.edu/fellowship/.
PREVIOUS INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS
2007/2008 OPPORTUNITIES
The Ocean City, MD Police Department has job opportunities for
being either a Police Officer (we will hire 100) or Public Safety Aide (we will hire 40) for the 2008 summer season. These are both paid positions and are both eligible for internship credits. For more info visit their website.
The Law and Policy Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice is looking for interns for Spring and Summer. For more info please call 202-305-0641
NGO Leadership Project
FBI Internships For more information, see http://www.fbijobs.gov/231.asp
Spend a Semester with Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/got
2006/2007
Listed below are some of the organizations who have contacted us about internship opportunities. This is not an endorsement of the organizations, their politics, or the programs. Do not confine your internship search to this list.
The Atlantic Council of the
Virginia Department of Corrections
2005/2006
Listed below are some of the organizations who have provided internship opportunities to Justice Studies Majors and Criminal Justice Minors. This is not an endorsement of the organizations, their politics, or the programs. Do not confine your internship search to this list.
SUFFOLK COUNTY CRIMINAL JUSTICE COORDINATING COUNCIL
VIRGINIA DIVISION OF FORENSIC SCIENCE
U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
VIRGINIA BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT