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Get Involved
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As faculty you are crucial to the success of
Academic Internships at BCC. There are a number of ways you can get involved:
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Promote Internships
An Internship Specialist can visit your classroom to promote internship opportunities.
The Internship Specialist will take 10-15 minutes to describe the Academic Internship
Program at BCC, share current internship opportunities with students and answer any questions.
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Serve on our Faculty Committee for Internships and Career Connections
We have an active Faculty Committee that meets twice quarterly to advise the Academic Internship Program
and Career Center staff on academic issues relating to Internships at BCC. The committee is a group of
interested and involved faculty committed to providing experiential learning opportunities for students on campus.
The committee assists in curriculum development, creating internships, linking internships academic disciplines and
the faculty in those disciplines and promotes internships on campus. If you would like to learn more or join please contact us.
The pdf link contains a list of our current committee.
Corporate Committee for Internships and Career Connections (Note: This is a PDF document.)
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Suggest an internship site
If you know a company that might be interested in hosting an intern please let us know and we will
contact them to get the process in motion. It is very easy for employers to host an intern.
For more information about developing an internship please see the "Employers" section of this website.
If you are interested in being more involved than simply suggesting an interested company please consider
sponsoring an internship.
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Sponsor/Create an internship
If you would like to create an internship where students in your department or
college-wide can earn Academic Credit through EXPRL 191 please contact us.
We have the expertise to make the process run smoothly.
- We can articulate the benefits of an internship to both students and employers
- We have worked with countless companies, government and community organizations to develop internships
- We are familiar with all of the BCC policies and legal requirements
- We can provide marketing materials to attract both employers and students
- We can offer the student liability insurance
- We can normally offer the student a scholarship to pay for the credit
Usually, faculty that sponsor an internship work closely with the company to develop a job
description and with the Internship Specialist in the BCC Career Center to identify potential
students and have the students register for credit through EXPRL 191. The faculty sponsor
can also act as the faculty mentor for the student throughout the internship process.
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Be a faculty mentor
Each student who completes an Academic Internship at BCC has a faculty mentor. Students are
asked to choose the faculty mentor they would like to work with. This is an opportunity to
work one-on-one with a student, share in one of their first professional experiences,
receive feedback about how they used information from their classes at BCC and gain the
perspective of both a student and an employer on how they are using their education at BCC.
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