This document describes a public administration internship course. The paper illustrates how student intern experiences can be used as a base in a public administration internship course to teach about public administration, and to show how students' practice can help them learn, understand, and remember theory. In the course the students worked…

Recommendations to help student interns in administrative positions maximize their educational opportunities vis-a-vis the "real world" and to also help them avoid certain placement-associated problems. The suggestions may be helpful to both new and established internship directors as well. Attention is focused on governmental administrative…

As challenges to jail administration mount, higher education institutions can be an important and relatively inexpensive resource, by providing expertise in various subjects of interest to jail administrators, by gathering and analyzing information, by providing interns and volunteers, by helping research and evaluate jail programs, and by…