Urban Scholars Program - Summer Internship
Urban Scholars is a paid, full time, 12-week program. Scholars spend 32 hours in their work placement, and 8 hours in the Urban Scholars Leadership Institute every week.
The Urban Scholars Leadership Institute (USLI) is a key piece of the Urban Scholars experience. This leadership and professional development training touches on a range of topics and professional soft skills. Additionally, USLI offers a crucial space for scholars to reflect on experiences in the workplace and process learning.
We focus on providing tools and frameworks to navigate organizations and professional relationships. Our leadership development components focus on identifying personal strengths, values, and habits. We use Toastmasters to support the public speaking component of USLI. We also bring in professionals from across the region for panels and guest presentations.
Urban Scholars staff curate meaningful work projects Scholars. We think of meaningful work as skill building or resume building experience. So forget about those stories of interns just getting coffee and running errands for their boss all day!
Because we work with students from all educational backgrounds, there isn't a set of standard work tasks that Scholars complete.
To name a few areas of work, over the years we've had Scholars work on:
- Data reporting in human resources
- Coordinating emergency preparedness workshops
- Conducting focus groups on youth violence prevention strategies
- Building databases and data visualization tools
- Researching various policy implementation strategies on affordable housing
- Community outreach for comprehensive planning
- Video and digital communication production
- Leading culturally relevant "Learn to Bike" workshops
- Testing and recommending data collection protocols