Why Should Your Students Intern?

• Validates the university's curriculum in a working environment.
• Improves post-graduation statistics for the university.
• May accelerate corporate fund-raising efforts.
• Allows the university to admit more students because many students spend the semester off campus.
• Provides learning experiences that are more valuable than case studies and lecturers.
• Advances curriculum to keep pace and lead practical arena.
• Connects faculty to current trends within their professional field.
• Develops more competitive and employable graduates.
• Increases program credibility and student excellence as well as stronger ties with alumni in the professional fields.

Please browse these pages designed to help you understand the goals of the UNH Experiential Education Internship program. One of our main objectives is to increase the number of UNH students who graduate with experiential education in the form of internships.

As you know, UNH has a historical tradition of placing a high value on a balanced theory-and-practice approach to education. Continuing with its tradition, UNH has embarked on a new paradigm in the Experiential Education arena to promote greater levels of students learning across majors by augmenting the academic requirements with practice, real-life engagement, first-hand observation, and learning through discovery. All the foregoing can be obtained through internships as well as our other Experiential Education programs.

The UNH Strategic Plan establishes that UNH will:

• Create and integrate internships across the curriculum, connecting with student-learning objectives and competencies, to create meaningful linkages between curricula and student experiences which effectively bridge the classroom, community and the world of work.
• Encourage all students to seek an internship experience that is appropriate to their majors, postgraduate aspirations and personal interests, developing internship requirements where appropriate in the curriculum.
• Expand connections between student internship experiences and UNH academic departments, businesses, corporations, non-profit organizations and government agencies in the region, nation and internationally.
• Ensure that internships are characterized by substantive responsibilities, real learning, reflective learning and close supervision.
• Create a process of involving and recognizing UNH alumni involved in career mentorship of students through internships.
• Develop and implement a consistent process of assessing the quality of the experience by both students and employers.

We welcome a mutually rewarding collaboration with you wherein we continue building on the UNH tradition of theory and application. Our concerted effort is sure to result in conditions of our students and industry partners being simultaneous winners in the on-going effort to build world-class work forces.

We welcome your input and are eager to join in your efforts to provide our students the best that theory and practice combined have to offer!

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