INTERNSHIPS

INTERNSHIP FORMS

• Faculty Handbook for Student Internships
• Student Handbook for Internships
• Required Documents for Student Internships
• Site Supervisor Handbook for Student Internships

An internship is a wonderful way to get early job experience as well as make valuable networking connections. Internships are available throughout the year with a variety of businesses, organizations, and non-profit agencies. A successful internship provides students with an opportunity to apply their classroom learning to the workplace. Employers and graduate schools value students who have put classroom concepts and skills to work in a “real world” environment as being both realistic and productive.

An internship database is available in the Kolderie Center with information on both established and potential internships for Cottey students. Past internships include:

• 3M
• 54 Veterinary Clinic
• Advanced Dentistry of Nevada
• Auburn Pharmacy
• Evan’s Drugs
• Fast Comprehensive Care
• Healthy Nevada
• Missouri Department of Social Services \ Children’s Division
• Missouri Probation and Parole
• Missouri Veteran’s Commission
• Murphy Family Ventures
• Nevada Daily Mail
• Nevada Housing Authority
• Nevada Police Department
• Nevada R5 School District
• Nevada Regional Medical Center
• Nevada Water Treatment Plant
• New Growth
• Precision Coffee Company
• Vernon County Chamber of Commerce
• Vernon County Sheriff’s Department

Cottey students have participated in internships with national and international corporations as well.

DEFINITION: An internship is supervised work experience, related to a student’s major or area of career interest, with intentional learning goals. It is monitored by a faculty member and an internship site supervisor and offers course credit. (Because internships earn course credit, they are often unpaid.)

CREDIT: Cottey awards 1-3 credits for internships. No more than four (4) credits for Associate candidates or twelve (12) credits for Bachelor candidates will count towards graduation. The tuition cost for a summer internship is $150 per credit hour.

ELIGIBILITY: Students eligible to participate in an internship must have first year, second-semester or second year standing by the beginning of the internship AND have a 2.0 cumulative GPA or higher.

ENROLLMENT: To enroll in an internship at Cottey College, the student needs to complete the following:

• Visit the Kolderie Center for information on internship sites.
• Obtain the Student Handbook for Internships
• Select a faculty member who wishes to supervise the internship experience.
• Work with faculty sponsor and internship site supervisor to complete the Internship Learning Contract.
• Obtain an Add Form from Academic Records during registration or during add period.
• Submit completed Internship Learning Contract and Add Form to Kim Severance for approval.

GRADING: The internship experience is Pass/Fail. The faculty sponsor will award academic credit once the internship is complete, Time and Activity Log and Evaluations are complete, signed, and submitted.

• Students will submit an Internship Activity Log as documentation of their activities.
• The employer/site-supervisor and the faculty advisor will submit an evaluation of the student intern.
• The student will evaluate the internship experience.

For more information on internships, contact Kim Severance, Director of Career Services at 417-667-6333, ext. 2184.

To establish an internship opportunity for a Cottey student, please complete and submit the Internship Position Description form to:

Kim Severance
Director of Career Services
Cottey College
1000 Austin Blvd
Nevada, MO 64772
Phone: 417-667-6333 x2184
Email: kseverance@cottey.edu