Faculty and Staff Career Resources

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Our partnerships with faculty and staff are vital to our work with students. This page will provide you with various resources, both for yourself and for your students.

Career Success partners with faculty and staff in various different ways, and are always happy to brainstorm ideas for further collaboration. To contact us about a potential partnership, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

 

Academic Internships

To receive academic credit for an internship, students must enroll in the internship course offered by the academic department and complete the Academic Internship Course Registration process below. All registration requirements must be completed by the Internship Registration Deadline for each semester, as noted on the Academic Calendar (DeLand Campus), or students risk being administratively withdrawn from their internship course.

If students have questions about internship course registration, please refer them to the Student Academic Internship webpage that outlines the steps they need to complete. Please refer students to the OneStop Tab of their MyStetson account to view the status of their digital paperwork.

Initiate Academic Internship Course Registration

  1. Meet with the student to learn about the internship they have obtained and how it relates to their academics. The Internship Approval Criteria, developed by the Faculty Internship Council, provide a rubric for evaluating internship experiences eligible for academic credit. Note: International students may also need approval from WORLD to be eligible for Curricular Practical Training (CPT).
  2. Faculty Internship Course Instructors may choose to utilize the Internship Pre-Approval Form to gain specific information about the student's internship. The information in this form may be useful to the student when they complete the Academic Internship Application in MyStetson.
  3. If you determine that the student's experience meets your department's criteria for academic internships, log in to MyStetson to submit a Permission of Instructor (PI) override to allow the student to register for the Academic Internship Course.

Finalize Academic Internship Course Registration

Faculty Instructor

  1. Once a student has submitted their Academic Internship Registration Form, you will receive an automatic email promoting you to log in to Dynamic Forms (via Mystetson) to review the application.
  2. Review and approve or deny the Academic Internship Application.  If denied, you will be able to provide feedback to students on how to improve their applications. If approved, your Department Chair will receive a notification to review the student's application. You can view video instructions on how to fill out the form.
  3. Once the application has been signed and submitted by your Department Cahir, the student will receive an email confirming the completion of each step.

Department Chair

  1. After the Faculty Internship Course Instructor has approved a student's Academic Internship Application, you will receive an automatic email prompting you to log in to Dynamic Forms (via MyStetson) to review the student's application. You can view video instructions on how to fill out the form.
  2. Review and approve or deny the Academic Internship Registration Form.

These templates can be customized as desired by Faculty Internship Course Instructors.  

Stetson University embraces internship as a powerful means to prepare students for post-graduation success and enhance on-campus learning.

An internship is faculty-guided experiential learning that empowers students to integrate knowledge and theory learned throughout the curriculum with practical application and skills development in a professional setting. It is a partnership between Stetson University and an internship host site, collaboratively defined and guided by the student, a faculty supervisor and an on-site supervisor from the host site, which provides the student the opportunity to gain valuable applied experience and make connections in professional fields they are considering for career paths.

To ensure that an experience is educational and thus considered a for-credit internship by the student's academic department or school/college, the following general criteria should be met:

  1. The experience must be an extension of the curriculum: a learning experience that provides for applying the knowledge gained through the curriculum. It must not be simply to advance the operations of the host site.
  2. The experience has a defined beginning and end, and the internship functions and expectations must align with the student's course of study and/or career path.
  3. There are clearly developed learning objectives/goals related to the professional goals of the student's academic coursework.
  4. There is regular feedback from the intern's on-site supervisor.
  5. There are resources, equipment, and facilities provided by the host site that support learning.

These are resources available for students and faculty that support best practices for internships as recommended by the Stetson Faculty Internship Council:

  • Internship Learning Agreement
    • Additions can be made to the Internship Learning Agreement in order to be customized per departmental needs. The Learning Agreement provides a basis of understanding between Stetson University and its faculty instructor, the student intern and the host organization.
  • Internship Site Supervisor Final Evaluation 
    • Major-specific questions can be added to the evaluation by the faculty instructor for the internship course. The evaluation should be completed by the student's primary supervisor at the company/organization.
  • Student Final Evaluation 
    • Major-specific questions can be added to the evaluation by the faculty instructor for the internship course. The evaluation should be completed by the student near the conclusion of the internship.