The Assistant Director for the Office of Internships and Experiential Education at the University of Rhode Island is responsible for leading policy development and implementation of experiential learning and internships for the university’s academic community.
Specific responsibilities include:
- directing the internship program (fall, spring, and summer), including full and part-time academic internships, both domestic and international;
- managing the budget and develop revenue producing initiatives such as off-campus, out of state, online and international opportunities for internships;
- conducting evaluations of experiential learning opportunities and sharing these data with the university community;
- interviewing, screening and placing student applicants in internship opportunities; teaching seminars required of full-time interns;
- maintaining a body of current resources on experiential learning, making them available to the university community;
- planning campus events to inform and highlight the salience of experiential learning;
- organizing workshops for faculty on incorporating experiential learning into courses and on providing appropriate opportunities for internships in all majors;
- implementing information workshops on experiential learning to URI 101 classes;
- providing assistance in planning and executing site visits with individual faculty to assure ongoing monitoring of student interns;
- supervising the maintenance of a database of student internship experiences and conducting follow-up studies to assess the outcomes of such involvement; preparing grant applications.
