Drawing on data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) internship module fielded in 2015-2017, this report offers several key findings related to historical changes and emerging forms of inequality in the intern economy. In addition to illuminating these findings, this report offers an important addendum to the 2015 SNAAP report…

This study's results, with 664 surveyed graduating business students, demonstrated that creating four groups, using gender and quantitative or nonquantitative major, was useful for testing their relationships to professional development behaviors and expected employment. Results showed that male-nonquantitative majors (n = 144) reported the lowest…

This paper evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational schools. The first round of the program took place in 2014 and required both firms and youth to apply for the program. The paper examines the demand for such a program, and…

Studied two high school work-based learning programs; one offered paid work experience for one semester, the other provided unpaid internships each year. Quality of students' program work and the relationship between the program and school learning are discussed. (MAK)

Internships provide the opportunity to apply classroom theory into practical, hands-on experience while simultaneously developing skills that improve course performance (Daugherty, 2000). In addition, the experiential opportunity increases the probability for securing a full-time position upon graduation. The purposes of this study are to examine…

A process study was conducted between 2000-2001 in order to gauge the progress of 98 Connecticut institutions that received state school-to-career (STC) grants. Progress was measured against national averages. The following were among the findings: (1) grantees made significant progress in implementing fundamental STC components, such as career…