April 17th: Last Day To Submit Internship Paperwork

Today is the last day to submit a site offer form and student data sheet if you wish to intern this summer. I am teaching from 9 am to 11:15 am and then going to lunch. At noon, I will begin reviewing submitted paperwork. If I find problems, I will contact you via email with the necessary corrections.

I am leaving for the day around 2 pm. You may submit paperwork via the COMMINTERNS website until 11:59 pm. Paperwork submitted after 11:59 pm today will be rejected and not reviewed.

I will be in my office from 12 pm to 2 pm today. You are welcome to stop by or call me at 724-840-8295. I will not be on Zoom during office hours.

Getting paperwork in by the due date is no guarantee of approval. It is never a good idea to wait till the last minute to submit.

Dr. Lenze

Monday April 17th Deadline

Deadline

Your internship paperwork (Site Offer Form & Student Data Sheet) are due no later than Monday, April 17th at 11:59 pm. If your paperwork is not submitted by then, for any reason, you will not be approved for an internship this summer.

Alternative to The Internship

If you were hoping to graduate and did not secure an internship for this summer, you should speak to your advisor about changing your major to Communications Media: Media Studies which does not require an internship.

Things to Remember

  • You only have 30 minutes to enter data on the Student Data Sheet. Write it out first and copy and paste it onto the form.
  • All of your hours must be logged between May 8th and August 4th. You can start later and end sooner but your hours must be logged between those two dates. You may work after August 4th but those hours will NOT count toward your internship requirements. If your Site Offer Form or Student Data Sheet do not have compliant start and end dates, the internship will be rejected.
  • You must show on the Student Data Form a schedule that clearly and specifically shows how you will reach 320 hours at the site and 40 hours working on COMM 493 coursework.
  • Electronic signatures on the Site Offer Form will be rejected. The form must be signed by hand. Print it. Have your site supervisor sign it. Scan it or take a photo. Submit it.
  • Do not send forms to Dr. Lenze via email. Submit them via the COMMINTERNS website.
  • Registration for COMM 493 will take place during the first week of May. You will get an email from the department telling you how to register. You will be assigned to a section. You will not be permitted to choose your professor.

Deadline for All Paperwork

The deadline to submit a site offer form and student data sheet is Monday, April 17th at 11:59 pm. Students are still taking more than 30 minutes to submit the student data sheet and it will not accept the data if you take that long to input it.

If you are looking for an internship through The Washington Center, you have until 11:59 pm on April 17th to submit a site offer form, the student data sheet, and verify you have been placed with one of their partner sites.

Failure to submit paperwork on time, for any reason, means you will not complete an internship this summer.

Hours and Description

When submitting your student data sheet, it is very important that you include a detailed description of the work you will be doing at the internship. This is not the time for a vague description. Describe the kinds of work you will be doing and justify why this work meets the requirements for a 400 level capstone course in Communications Media.

Your hours should also be specific. You need to provide a detailed schedule that clearly shows you will reach 320 hours within the specified dates of the internship, assuming you will log the other 40 hours of coursework from COMM 493. How many hours on Mondays? How many on Wednesdays? And so on.

One Week To Go!

The deadline to submit Internship paperwork is one week from today. At 11:59 pm on April 17th, the Communications Media Department will stop taking applications for internships for Summer 2023. No exceptions will be made. If you wish to intern this summer, submit your Site Offer Form and your Student Data Sheet as soon as possible, but before the deadline.

There is still time to work with Dr. Lenze to find an internship! Stop by his office: 127 Stouffer Hall or call between 9 am and 4 pm., Monday through Friday at 724-840-8295.

Affiliation Agreements

Students are stopping by and telling me they don’t know how to complete the affiliation agreement. There is a reason for that.

STUDENTS DON’T COMPLETE AFFILIATION AGREEMENTS!

It is the internship coordinator’s job to get the internship affiliated. Once I have your site offer form and student data sheet, I will verify if the internship is affiliated. If it is, you’re done! If it isn’t, then I contact the internship site and get the affiliation agreement signed. As long as your site offer form and student data sheet are submitted by 11:59 pm on April 17th (and the internship meets program requirements), you are under the deadline. Affiliation agreements can be arranged after April 17th!

If you have questions, stop by and see me!

Dr. Lenze