Placement Information

Thank you for you considering an eight-week Cornell Urban Scholar internship with your agency for summer 2007. By working with the city's poorest children, families, and communities in innovative non-profit agencies, some of Cornell's brightest and most committed graduate and undergraduate students are being encouraged to pursue public service careers through CUSP.
 

Student Support
CUSP provides the pay and housing for our students, as well as professional training and support both prior to and during the eight-week internship. Before their internship, undergraduate students are required to complete CRP 331, a three-credit spring course, Social Justice and the City, which exposes them to urban social justice problems and the working life of professionals engaged in addressing them. The CUSP director also spends the summer in New York City to assist the students and agencies ensure effective placements.
 

Employers as Mentors
For many CUSP students, the eight-week summer internship in New York City is their first taste of working in a public-interest or advocacy organization. Therefore, we need supervisors to:

• Create a job description reflecting eight weeks of meaningful activity, including a project over which your intern can feel responsibility and accountability, and which can have some form of completion by the end of July
   
• Interview at least one Cornell Urban Scholar on March 9, 2007 in New York City
   
• Consider hosting a Friday field trip to your agency, where students learn about how your organization is addressing issues of social justice
   
• Attend a one-hour Supervisor's Orientation on Monday afternoon, June 4, 2007, immediately followed by a one-hour Intern/Supervisor reception at 5pm
   
• Meet at least weekly with the intern during the summer internship to facilitate the student's acclimation to the agency and to answer questions and concerns about the project
   
• Attend the CUSP Final Reception in New York City on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 4:30pm
   
• Complete an evaluation at the end of the eight weeks
   

Agency Placement Form
 

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If you are interested in a summer intern or graduate research fellow, please contact Sarah Smith, CUSP Administrator, at 607-255-9987.