A sampling of places where Emory & Henry students have had internships.
Ninety percent (90%) of employers are seeking recent graduates with work experience. Get the experience with an INTERNSHIP!
Emory & Henry offers internships and other types of cooperative work experience programs to assist students in obtaining on-the-job training and an opportunity for career exploration while obtaining academic credit for the experience.
Baskerville Institute
Blue Mountain Therapy
Department of Social Services
Virginia State Parks
Kentucky Equine Research
News Channel 11 - WJHL
Starscape Media
Upper Tennessee River Roundtable
WECH 90.7
White House Historical Association
Students can pursue 2 to 6 credit hours of internship credit during fall, spring, or summer semesters.
In addition to working with the Career Services office on the internship, students must work with the academic department that will be granting the internship credit. To determine this individual (aka Instructor/Faculty Internship Supervisor), students should work with their academic advisor.
Each credit hour pursued requires 40 hours of work at the internship site. When this is broken down over the course of a 15-week semester, it is approximately 8-10 hours of work per week.
Internship sites must designate a Work Site Supervisor, which serves as the intern’s on-site mentor and supervisor.
There are many resources available to you to find an internship in this area, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Visit the Career Services job search site to get started.
Options for international students have been gathered by Kutemwa Masafwa at their website, F-1 Internships.
Professors can be invaluable in making internship connections. Students should ask their professors and/or academic advisor for potential internship sites.
To begin this process, plan to attend an Internship Orientation Session the semester prior to the semester you will be interning to receive the required paperwork for registering your internship for academic credit. There are typically 4 to 5 internship orientation sessions scheduled each semester. Below are some frequently asked questions about the Internship Orientation Sessions.
who should attend?
If you intend to have an internship during Winter 2025 or Spring 2026
and
you want to receive academic credit for your internship, you are
required
to attend one orientation session. The only exception is if you have previously attended an internship orientation session.
If you intend to have an internship but you do not plan to sign up for academic credit, you are welcome to attend, but you are not required to do so.
When and where are the sessions?
There are three orientation sessions scheduled for this semester:
Thursday, October 23, 3:00pm
Monday, November 3, 7:00pm
Thursday, November 13, 12:30pm
All sessions will be held in-person at the van Vlissingen Center (located next to the cafeteria).
How do i register for an orientation session?
You can register for a session on Handshake. The links below will take you directly to the registration page (note, you will need to be logged in to a Handshake account to register):
You can also access the registration pages at any time by logging into your Handshake account, clicking Career Center, and scrolling down to Upcoming Events.
If you don’t have a Handshake account, you can set one up by going to portal.ehc.edu, clicking your name in the top right corner, then clicking SSO Portal, and finally clicking Handshake.
Students will receive all required internship paperwork, instructions, and deadlines at the internship orientation session they attend.
Internship paperwork includes:
Internship Application (document used by Registrar to add the internship course to the student’s class schedule).
Internship Liability Form
Internship Work Plan (document serves as the official internship contract as it is completed and signed by the Intern, Instructor/Faculty Internship Supervisor, and Work Site Supervisor).
Student Performance Evaluation (completed by Work Site Supervisor at the end of the internship).
Student Critique (completed by the student intern at the end of the internship).
Time Sheet (completed throughout the internship and signed at the end of the internship by student intern and Work Site Supervisor).
In addition to the Internship Program paperwork, academic departments require student interns to complete additional requirements such as weekly journals or a final paper. Additional requirements vary by academic department.
