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INTERNSHIPS on LEAP DAY 2008

A Vision of the Way Things Are Supposed to Be

By Matthew Zinman
Founder, The Internship Institute

Today’s the day. An opportunity. THE opportunity.

If you’ve ever wondered how things got to be THIS way, let’s LEAP the other direction to our future and wonder instead about how things are supposed to be.

Here are the Four New Realities About Internships:
1) MANDATORY to graduate
2) FAIR PAY for everyone
3) CENTRALIZED on campuses
4) SELF FUNDED by students

Every time we change something, it always ripples to another; which is to say: there are objections to remedy.  For now, please refer to this vision chart.  Everything will become clear and happen, all in due time.

In short, I will appeal to every college and university and, if I have to — students and parents — to create a fund using 1.5 credits of students’ (and parents) hard-earned tuition money (and loans) to privatize a system of Employment Readiness and Career/Internship Placement Centers on campuses everywhere to “plug in” to the employer community and seamlessly integrate into how each school does it.

Thank you for all your kindness and support.  We need all we can get to make this work.

Happy Leap Day!

Matthew