Requirements & Deadlines

General Requirements for Interns

By completing an academic internship you are making yourself more marketable to employers and graduate schools.  Getting a job and achieving long term career success increasingly depends on the ability to demonstrate real value to employers through experience and applied learning. Collaborating with faculty and professionals in your chosen field helps you gain knowledge in an intentional learning environment supported by mentorship and supervision.  

Per academic policy, the minimum requirements needed to earn credit for an internship experience are as follows:

  1. Enroll in a minimum of 1 internship credits. Internship credits will not be
    awarded retroactively.
  2. Participate in a credit-bearing internship for a minimum of 40 hours of work per credit (for example, 3 credits = 120 hours of work).  No internship shall require more than 75 hours per credit unless otherwise approved by the department chair and College dean. Individual departments may require more hours for the internship experience. The focus is on learning and educational objectives, not the number of hours accrued at the employer site (click HERE for major-specific hour requirements).
  3. Pay tuition and any associated fees.
  4. Receive a satisfactory grade for the internship experience assigned by the faculty supervisor.
  5. Initiate and have a minimum of five (5) communications/meetings with the faculty internship supervisor establishing learning objectives, goal setting, providing progress reports and evaluating the experience. One of these communications/meetings is expected to include the student’s site supervisor.
  6. Write an outcomes paper reflecting on the internship experience and the learning objectives. The paper should be at least 8 to 10 pages long, double spaced; Times New Roman 12 font. 
  7. Complete any additional departmental assignments which may include formative and summative assessments.
  8. Complete an evaluation/assessment of the academic internship experience.

Recommendations for a Successful Internship Experience

  • Keep an internship journal.  Reflect on internship experiences weekly, noting the tasks and projects completed, challenges encountered, and lessons learned.
  • Contact the assigned internship faculty supervisor as soon as possible. Faculty internship supervisors are assigned by the department's internship coordinator and are listed on student class schedules in MAX. 
  • Schedule supervision meetings with the faculty supervisor in advance.
  • Check Millersville University email frequently so important internship updates or reminders are not missed.

Resources

Deadline for Academic Requirements

Tuition must be paid within the timeframe indicated by the Student Accounts Office.  A tuition bill will be emailed by Student Accounts when the completed internship registration form has been processed by the Registrar's Office.

All academic requirements (submission of internship evaluation and outcomes paper) are due to the last day of class each semester.  If the faculty internship supervisor has approved a different deadline, please let us know.

  1. Employer Supervisor Evaluation - An evaluation survey link will be sent to employer supervisors.  We encourage the supervisor to complete the evaluation toward the end of the internship.
  2. Student Internship Evaluation - An evaluation survey link will be sent to student interns via Handshake.  We encourage students to complete it toward the end of the internship.
  3. Outcomes Paper - Final outcome papers or academic portfolios should be submitted via Handshake and added as an attachment to your Step 2:  Registration of Internship.  See link below for step-by-step instructions.  Uploaded into the student's Handshake experience.                                                                                                                                                                             

    This deadline is set by The Career Center.  Any additional departmental assignments should be submitted to the assigned faculty supervisor by the deadline they have established.