UW-Whitewater Student Internships Blog

Internship Week wrapped up on Thursday with one final Internship Outpost. It was a quiet morning in Upham Hall, but Ellen and I still had a chance to talk with a few students eager to secure summer internships.
To wrap up, I’d like to share a few of my observations from the week:

It’s important to define [...]

Ellen and I are really enjoying the Internship Outposts. It’s a nice opportunity to get outside the walls of the office and meet UW-Whitewater students elsewhere across campus.
So what exactly is the Internship Outpost? In short, it’s a traveling info table. Since it’s staffed by me and Ellen, though, it’s also a drop-by station for [...]

Tuesday was yet another great day discussing internships around UW-W. Ellen and I had a good time in Hyland Hall talking with students about their internship searches. In the evening, I spoke with the Society for the Advancement of Management (SAM), and one of the topics we discussed was internships. Again, great questions and good [...]

Internship Week got off to a great start on Monday! So many good questions from students looking for that ideal internship. A great question was raised at the Internship Search Bootcamp: Are there internship positions that are going unfilled?
This same issue came up in December when I attended the WI-ACE (Wisconsin Association of Colleges & [...]

Welcome back UW-W students! Are you all ready for the spring semester? Ready to start the search for the “perfect” summer internship? ‘Tis the season!
I’m going to use this first post of the spring semester to give an overview of some new resources and upcoming events to help you in your quest to find an [...]

The Student Internships Blog will be going on hiatus for a few weeks as I enjoy the winter break. Just as winter break is a time for students to rest up between fall and spring classes, it’s a time for me to wrap up my fall semester work and prepare for spring’s busy internship search [...]

It has been a long time since I last wrote anything on the Student Internships Blog. With the beginning of summer and vacation time, the blog has taken a bit of a back seat. During the summer months, I won’t be posting on my regular once-a-week schedule, but I will try to write as things [...]

Congratulations to all of the Internship Trivia Contest winners!
Nathan Runnells – Monday, Feb. 9, Question 1
Q. Which celebrity completed an internship with Nashville’s CBS affiliate, News Channel 5?
A. Oprah Winfrey – As a sophomore at Tennessee State, Oprah interned at Nashville’s CBS affiliate, News Channel 5.
Alex Bocian - Tuesday, Feb. 10, Question 2
Q. Which Denver Post [...]

Internship Trivia Contest Questions 5 & 6 - Double-Header
Before this celebrity made it big in fashion and the music industry, they held an internship at New York-based Uptown Records.
A.  Sean P. Diddy Combs
B.  Vincent Chase
C.  Jennifer Lopez
D.  Jay Z
Much of the success of this famed film director is credited to a 3 day/week unpaid internship in [...]

Internship Trivia Contest Question 4
This NFL bigwig wasn’t playing games when he made his start as an administrative intern with the NFL in 1982.
A.  Steve Sabol
B.  Brett Favre
C.  Roger Goodell
D.  Steve Mariucci
Email your answer to MorrowL@uww.edu. Be the first person to submit the correct answer and win today’s prize* - three tickets for free “Ultimate Car Washes” (a $30 [...]